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23 lines
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## ThreeFold Farming Pool
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A Pool of storage & compute hardware which allows to provision IT Capacity.
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Each Farming Pool consists out of TFNodes which run the TF Operating System and TF Blockchain Software (TFChain) which allows anyone in the world to use this IT capacity to host their IT workloads (storage apps, archive capacity, web applications, artificial intelligence, iOT, docker containers, etc). To use this IT Capacity, through the TF Grid, people need to own ThreeFold_Tokens ("TFTs") as they are the only possible mechanism to purchase this capacity on the TF Grid. As such, TFTs represent a true utility.
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Such an org can supply any or all of following services.
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- Selling required hardware kit for the Farming Pool (compute, storage, networking) to the TF Farmer (and logistics around it).
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- Installing & testing the TF Operating System on the chosen hardware.
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- Burn in testing of the chosen hardware: make sure the hardware is reliable and works following expectations.
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- Configuration & Installation of a ThreeFold Farming Pool.
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- Registration & Initialization of a ThreeFold Farming Pool.
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- Delivering & Executing of hardware Warranty as specified on contract.
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- Creation and Delivery of the ThreeFold Mobile App for the TF Farmer (allow people worldwide to order capacity using TFTs for the Farming Pool.)
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- Software support for the Farming Pool
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- Training of the TF Farmer about TF Concepts
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- Hosting Services
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- all services related to connectivity to the internet (routing, denial of service, firewalling, ...)
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- rackspace & other datacenter services
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- monitoring of the infrastructure (hardware and software).
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> not operational yet |