Run Nesa Miner Node

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Run Nesa Miner Node

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Run Nesa Miner Node

Nesa is the lightweight Layer-1 executing critical AI inference on queries that require a high degree of privacy, security, and trust using advanced methods on-chain, including zero-knowledge machine learning (ZKML), split learning (SL), and more.

1 min readยทAugust 27, 2024
nesa
miner
ai
blockchain
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System Requirements

Hardware:

  • CPU: Multi-core processor

  • Memory: 4 GB RAM minimum

  • Storage: 50 GB free disk space (or more depending on the size of the model(s) you'd like to power)

  • GPU: Optional

Install Dependencies:

# update packages
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
sudo apt install jq -y
# install docker
curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/docker-archive-keyring.gpg

echo "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/docker-archive-keyring.gpg] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) stable" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io
docker version

# install docker-compose
VER=$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/docker/compose/releases/latest | grep tag_name | cut -d '"' -f 4)

curl -L "https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/"$VER"/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m)" -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
docker-compose --version

Hugging Face Token

  1. Create a hugging face account on its site

  2. Navigate to Hugging Face > Profile > Settings > Access Tokens and create a write token

  3. Save the token

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Download and Execute the Bootstrap Script

# open 31333 port
sudo ufw allow 31333
sudo ufw enable

# run the script
bash <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nesaorg/bootstrap/master/bootstrap.sh)

after running the scrip follow this path and configure your node:

Wizardy > Unique Name > Skip > Skip > Miner > Mnemonic Phrase > Distributed Miner > Join existing swarm > Pick a Model > Huggingface API key > Yes

Choose a Model Name:

you can choose one of existing models in the list

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but you have to accept its license in huggingface site first. (except for bigscience/bloom-560m)

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and wait to get approved by repository authors in your settings

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Check the miner

  1. make sure all 4 docker containers are running with docker ps command

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  2. get your miner id with cat ~/.nesa/identity/peer_id.id command and make sure it's running in node explorer site

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Congrats your miner node is running healthy. stay tuned for more updates on my twitter 0xsarox

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