The Hyperledger Performance and Scale Working Group is not currently active. If you're interested in the topic of performance and scale with blockchain networks, check out Hyperledger Caliper and the two performance related mentorship projects in our 2023 Mentorship program.

Description

Performance and scalability are two key characteristics of any platform. In terms of most of the Hyperledger projects, both will directly relate to end user satisfaction and ultimately adoption of a project. For instance, if a code base consumes too many system resources or does not complete an action in a reasonable time with respect to other solutions, it may not succeed. Similarly, if a product does not scale well (horizontally and or vertically), it may not succeed.

The purpose of the Performance and Scalability Working Group (PSWG) is to discuss, research, and identify key metrics that relate to the performance and scalability of a blockchain and blockchain related technologies.

Charter

Please see Charter for the full text of the charter.

Scope

PSWG serves as a cross project forum for architects and technologists from the Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) community to exchange ideas and explore the performance and scalability aspects of the DLT projects. PSWG will help review incoming performance project proposals and make recommendations to the TSC. The PSWG may work with the other working groups, especially in the areas of architecture and requirements.

Communication Channels

These are the mechanisms that this working group uses to communicate. You are invited to join the conversation.

Mailing List

perf-and-scale-wg@lists.hyperledger.org

Chat Channel

#performance-and-scale-wg

Meetings

The Performance and Scale Working Group meets weekly on Tuesdays at 9:00 AM US/Eastern time. See the Calendar of Public Meetings for the next meeting and dial in details.

Links to External Resources

Hyperledger Caliper Proposal
BLOCKBENCH: A Framework for Analyzing Private Blockchains
BLOCKBENCH source repository
Bitcoin-NG: A Scalable Blockchain Protocol - A Usenix Paper
Hyperledger Fabric: A Distributed Operating System for Permissioned Blockchains Includes some preliminary performance test results for fabric v1.0 with the Bitcoin-like (UTXO-based) “fabcoin” smart contract
Performance Characterization of Hyperledger Fabric Appears in the First Crypto Valley Conference on Blockchain Technology (CVCBT 2018)
Performance Evaluation of the Quorum Blockchain Platform
Gauge - Performance Benchmarking Tool for Hyperledger Fabric and Quorum based on original version of Huawei Caliper with some new features, plugin for the Quorum blockchain platform, and support for micro-benchmarks and scaling experiments.
Performance Modeling of Hyperledger Fabric - Developed analytical models to estimate various performance measures (throughput, latency, mean queue length) = f(system, application configuration). Published at IEEE NCA conference, Nov. 2018
Performance Modeling and Analysis of Hyperledger Fabric - Modeled and analyzed Fabric v0.6 and V1 from performance perspective. Ph.D. Thesis. (in press)
Accelerator - Designed to improve the performance of a blockchain network, e.g. Hyperledger Fabric, in terms of transaction throughput.
Fabric Machine: Accelerating Hyperledger Fabric Using FPGAs

Active Members

Name	Company
Haris Javaid, WG Chair	Xilinx
Yi (Sam) Yuan	IBM
Mark Wagner	Red Hat
Todd Little	Oracle
Mark Simpson	Chorum
Harish Sukhwani	Duke University (graduated)
Vipin Bharathan	dlt.nyc: vip@dlt.nyc Vipin Bharathan

Recent space activity

Space contributors

David Boswell (558 days ago)
Javaid, Haris (609 days ago)
sam yuan (740 days ago)
Vikram Sharma (910 days ago)
Mohan, S (1161 days ago)
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Yang Cheng (1376 days ago)
david liu (1600 days ago)
Tracy Kuhrt (1600 days ago)
Mark Wagner (Deactivated) (2077 days ago)
Vipin Bharathan (2130 days ago)
Harish (2147 days ago)
mark.simpson@bluebank.io (2147 days ago)
Todd Little (2147 days ago)

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