Experimental distributed applications architecture

Distributed Application Project Light

This is what we believe can be working in less than a week of effort and without substantial innovation. The light version of the distributed application, exposes sandboxed disc, networking and API functions through javascript. Golang, Python and C can be compiled down from LLVM IR to a asm.js target with Emscripten and interpreted by the javascript interpreter.

This approach works immediately, using an existing tool chain and is acceptable in the immediate term.

Distributed applications architecture

This document overviews Skycoin distributed application architecture. This project is experimental, extremely long term and open ended. The project involves implementation and documentation of a virtual machine implementation, development of a new intermediate language , development of a new compiler and run-time environment.

The objective of this project is to

• achieve deterministic builds from source to the intermediate language for C, Python and Golang programs
• be able to run intermediate language programs interpreted or as native code compiled by LLVM
• achieve high security application sandboxing (memory safety, sandboxing of disc access, sandboxing of network access)
• be able to package, deploy, stop, start and move processes between computers (personal cloud).

This project overlaps with NaCl/pNaCl, Docker, LLVM and Rose. Familiarity with assembly language, writing C compilers, source transformation tools, LLVM backend, CIL, LLVM IR and the XL programming language recommended.