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“A proposal for a new Stata licensing scheme based on blockchain, cloud computing, and grid computing”
Source of image: http://www.collectifbam.fr/thomas-thibault-au-fabshop/
Alexander Zlotnik, PhD Technical University of Madrid (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid) David Arroyo Manzano, MsSc
“Big data” + Complex algorithms = Lots of computational resources
simple operations (such as sort)
regression analysis
multiple imputation
bayesian analysis
(several computers) …example: Stata PARALELL
(several computers) …example: Stata PARALELL
Source: https://www.stata.com/statamp/
(several computers) …example: Stata PARALELL
Source: http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/p/parallel.pdf
– Algorithmic complexity – Ahmdal’s law
Execution time
– Algorithmic complexity – Ahmdal’s law
– Many experiments => High n => Yes
– O(n) ≈ n (regressions)
– Many independent experiments => Yes
… with blockchain licensing
names, variable encoding, non-numerical values, et cetera).
cloud.
… with blockchain licensing
… in different geographical locations … working on the same problem
Stata.
incentivized to provide their instances of Stata for distributed processing?
– With blockchain licensing !
(distributed ledger) with transactional integrity guarantees not controlled by a single entity based on many processing nodes (anonymous or publicly known).
certain conditions) to falsify an entry in the blockchain.
which are not controlled by a central bank (or any kind of central entity).
(alternatives to the SWIFT system).
production, distribution and billing).
(such as cooperatives with no managers).
(Malta, Russia, Ukraine, Estonia, …)
computational time for Stata Corp.
logged in a blockchain thus guaranteeing transparency and irrevocability.