论文标题
有效扩展区块链超越共识创新和摩尔定律
Effective Scaling of Blockchain Beyond Consensus Innovations and Moore's Law
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论文摘要
作为一项新兴技术，区块链在从智能医疗保健到智能城市的众多应用方案中取得了巨大的成功。但是，长期存在的瓶颈阻碍了其进一步的发展，这是归因于分布式存储和计算方法的大量资源消耗。这使区块链的性能不足和可扩展性不足。在这里，我们分析了最近的区块链技术，并证明了广泛采用共识的扩展的潜力受到严重限制，尤其是在当前的摩尔基于法律的硬件规模即将结束的时代。我们通过开发一种名为Prism的开源基准测试工具来研究引起资源效率低的关键因素，然后讨论各种拓扑效率和硬件创新，从而实现这一目标，从而有助于扩大区块链。据我们所知，这是第一项通过进行大规模和全面的基准测试来探讨下一代缩放策略的深入研究。
As an emerging technology, blockchain has achieved great success in numerous application scenarios, from intelligent healthcare to smart cities. However, a long-standing bottleneck hindering its further development is the massive resource consumption attributed to the distributed storage and computation methods. This makes blockchain suffer from insufficient performance and poor scalability. Here, we analyze the recent blockchain techniques and demonstrate that the potential of widely-adopted consensus-based scaling is seriously limited, especially in the current era when Moore's law-based hardware scaling is about to end. We achieve this by developing an open-source benchmarking tool, called Prism, for investigating the key factors causing low resource efficiency and then discuss various topology and hardware innovations which could help to scale up blockchain. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first in-depth study that explores the next-generation scaling strategies by conducting large-scale and comprehensive benchmarking.
