venus-cluster is a solution for Filecoin storage power clusters, focusing on growing and maintaining said storage power. Compared with lotus, it tries to make breakthroughs in the following aspects:

• Simplifies sealing state machine
• More efficient usage of resources through optimized procedures
• Taking advantages of Venus chain service and Venus storage deal service to maximize storage providing performance
• Multi miner_id support and collaboration

venus-cluster is composed of venus-worker and venus-sector-manager. The former is used for PoRep computations and latter is used for sector management and interactions with Filecoin chain.

For instructions on how to quickly bootstrap your storage power service using venus-cluster, please visit here.

For instructions on more intricate details of venus-cluster configurations, please visit here.

Venus architecture mianly compose of three parts: chain service, storage deal service and storage power service. Learn more about each of them here.

Venus loosely describes a collection of components that work together to realize a fully featured Filecoin implementation. List of stand-alone venus modules repos can be found here, each assuming different roles in the functioning of Filecoin.

Venus is a universally open project and welcomes contributions of all kinds: code, docs, and more. However, before making a contribution, we ask you to heed these recommendations:

1. If the proposal entails a protocol change, please first submit a Filecoin Improvement Proposal.
2. If the change is complex and requires prior discussion, open an issue or a discussion to request feedback before you start working on a pull request. This is to avoid disappointment and sunk costs, in case the change is not actually needed or accepted.

For general help in using venus-cluster, please refer to the documentation hosted within the repo. For additional help, you can use one of these channels to ask a question:

• Slack (For live discussion with the Community)
• GitHub (Feature/Bug reports, Contributions)
• Twitter (Get the news fast)
• Meetups (A monthly online meetup about Venus in general)
• I'm feeling lucky (Pick up a good first issue now!)