Gensys-Testnet-Node-Guide

The Gensyn Protocol is a layer-1 trustless protocol for deep learning computation that directly and immediately rewards supply-side participants for pledging their compute time to the network and performing ML tasks.

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Where to get a node?

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• Go to https://cloud.vast.ai/?ref_id=168603, make a profile and go to the "Templates" page, select Linux Desktop.
• Go to the "Search" page and filter on this from the top of the page: 1X GPU / On-Demand / RTX 4090 / Planet Earth / Price(inc.)
• Rent the cheapest VPS with a 1x RTX 4090 and a download/upload speed over 200mb/s
• Go to instances page and open your server
• From the service list chose: 6200 > KDE Plasma Desktop (VNC Fallback) > Direct Link

Now you should see your VPS screen

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Setting up system

Put all of these commands in your VPS terminal one by one

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y

Essenstials

sudo apt install -y \
  curl \
  git \
  wget \
  nano \
  tmux \
  htop \
  nvme-cli \
  lz4 \
  jq \
  make \
  gcc \
  clang \
  build-essential \
  autoconf \
  automake \
  pkg-config \
  libssl-dev \
  libleveldb-dev \
  libgbm1 \
  bsdmainutils \
  ncdu \
  unzip \
  tar

Installing python

sudo apt-get install -y \
  python3 \
  python3-pip \
  python3-venv \
  python3-dev

Node and Yarn

sudo apt-get update && curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_22.x | sudo -E bash - && sudo apt-get install -y nodejs && node -v && sudo npm install -g yarn

Install Docker

for pkg in docker.io docker-doc docker-compose podman-docker containerd runc; do
  sudo apt-get remove $pkg
done

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y ca-certificates curl gnupg

sudo install -m 0755 -d /etc/apt/keyrings
curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg
sudo chmod a+r /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg

echo "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu $(. /etc/os-release && echo "$VERSION_CODENAME") stable" | \
sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-buildx-plugin docker-compose-plugin

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Install Python & PIP

sudo apt install python3 -y && sudo apt install python3-pip -y

Install Dev. tool

sudo apt install python3-dev python3-venv build-essential -y

Install Yarn

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y curl gnupg apt-transport-https && curl -sS https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/pubkey.gpg | sudo apt-key add - && echo "deb https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/ stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yarn.list && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y yarn

Clone RL-Swarm Repo

RL Swarm is an open source system for peer-to-peer reinforcement learning over the internet. Running a swarm node allows you to train your personal model against the swarm intelligence.

git clone https://github.com/gensyn-ai/rl-swarm

Navigate in

cd rl-swarm

Install screen

sudo apt install screen -y

Create screen for process

screen -S rlswarm

and navigate in rl-swarm again

cd rl-swarm

Install and Run Swarm

python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
./run_rl_swarm.sh

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Wait till you see waiting for UserData.json to be created

Now open Browser and Input http://localhost:3000/

If you get this error

Go to your terminal and run cd /root/rl-swarm/modal-login/ && yarn upgrade && yarn add next@latest && yarn add viem@latest After that restart your VPS and try again

Access .pem file and save swarm.pem to your local PC

Desktop/workspace/rl-swarm/swarm.pem

(!!! THIS FILE IS YOUR ACTUAL NODE YOUR EMAIL WILL BE LINKED TO THIS .PEM FILE, YOU CAN ONLY USE 1 EMAIL PER NODE ID OR ELSE IT WONT GENERATE A CA FOR YOUR NODE ID CHECK NEXT STEP !!!)

(!!! IF YOU WANT TO TRANSFER TO ANOTHER VPS WITH THE SAME NODE ID, YOU NEED TO COPY THE .PEM FILE TO THERE AND LOGIN WITH SAME EMAIL AS U USED TO SIGN UP FOR THAT NODE ID !!!)

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Search your Node ID

in @gensyntrackbot from Telegram to see if your Node ID is binded with a EVM CA, if not delete your userdata from rl-swarm/modal-login/temdata/ and delete both files in there -> rerun the swarm and login with different email.

You can find your node name in your terminal, its a animal name with your node id behind it (starts with QM) after it starts training rounds (can take an hour or less)

Official guide

Check Official guide Support me on X https://x.com/0xwycee