Towards open access internet infrastructure: Announcing Ramo Computer
Today, we are launching Ramo Computer (visit ramo.computer). The software tool allows anyone – from consumers to enterprise-grade operators – to commit and consume hardware resources on decentralized physical infrastructure networks (DePINs).
DePIN refers to a system where physical infrastructure, such as data storage, computing power, or networking, is operated and coordinated in a decentralized manner using blockchain technology. The approach distributes control and management across a network of participants rather than one central authority and enhances scalability and resilience while reducing costs.
The users of Ramo Computer act as the main actors in the Ramo Network. Via Ramo Computer, users participate in and execute workloads from several DePINs that are aggregated by the Ramo protocol. This allows anyone running Ramo Computer to participate in various DePINs simultaneously and seamlessly.
For example, with Ramo Computer, activities like providing and consuming storage on the Filecoin network – which previously required large-scale operations managed by teams of skilled engineers – can now be run on consumer-grade hardware by anyone. This democratizes access to networks like Filecoin and other DePINs. As a result, more providers and users are able to commit resources thus fueling the growth of DePINs.
Ramo Computer: A new way to commit and consume hardware resources
Today, most of the world’s public cloud infrastructure is controlled by a few large organizations. These companies succeed because they provide a highly convenient service at competitive prices relative to alternative options (e.g., on-premises infrastructure). Specifically, they abstract away much of the complexity of running compute and storage infrastructure with powerful tooling designed for their specific infrastructure environment. This locks users in.
In the context of web3, tools that are functionally equivalent to those offered by the centralized cloud today are defined as protocols. They are typically designed for a set of specific use cases (e.g., storage, video encoding etc.), have protocol-specific incentives and validation mechanisms and provide rails that facilitate the payments between users and providers of the services. The various protocols can also be stitched together to create higher level services.
Importantly, these protocols are not opinionated about the infrastructure they run on. Instead, they allow an arbitrary number and type of resource providers to participate so long as they can correctly execute the workloads specified by the protocol.
The community working on Ramo believes that reducing the barriers to participate in decentralized networks as providers is key to catalyzing the transition away from proprietary cloud infrastructure and tooling towards open compute protocols. Ramo Computer is a major milestone in reducing complexity and leveling the playing field, thereby allowing a growing number of compute protocols to run on a more open, performant, scalable network of infrastructure providers.
By using Ramo Computer, users today have the ability to provide both storage or compute resources for some of the largest open access storage and compute networks: Visit ramo.computer and start committing storage hardware at the click of a button. Over time, Ramo Computer will give hardware owners more opportunities to commit additional resources (e.g., hard drives for storage, circuits for computational workloads and bandwidth to move data).
In short, the Ramo network is a network running other networks. By becoming providers on the Ramo network, qualifying hardware owners will be able to tap into a steady flow of monetizable workloads streaming in from various DePINs. This allows them to access a large open market of jobs without having to manage the complexity of being a provider across multiple decentralized networks. The goal is to allow them to generate profits with their hardware more rapidly and efficiently.
Starting today, providers using Ramo Computer are beginning to make large volumes of storage capacity available via the Ramo Network. Storage clients interested in tamper-proof, performant and S3-compatible storage capacity are welcome to register their interest at use.ramo.computer.
