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How Solo Worker Works

Solo worker runs 3 Docker containers named Phala-node, Phala-pherry, and Phala-pRuntime. Node provides blockchain node services; PRuntime provides TEE-runtime services; And Pherry acts as a bridge between TEE and blockchain nodes. The only component that really provides decentralized computing services to the network is pRuntime

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How PRB Works

PRB is “Phala Runtime Bridge” which replaces pherry to make a bridge between the blockchain and pRuntime to convey information in batches.

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How to switch from Solo mining to PRB mining

  • Turn off Pherry service on solo workers
  • Shut down the Node service on solo workers
  • Let pRuntime run alone and add pruntime’s endpoint to PRB

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Operation steps

  • Step1 sudo phala stop
  • Step 2 sudo mkdir ~/prb
  • Step 3 Copy the docker-compse.yml and .env files in the Solo mining folder to ~/prb
  • Step 4 sudo vim docker-compose.yml Edit the docker-compose file and delete the descriptions of the node and pherry services
  • Step 5 sudo docker-compose up -d start pruntime alone
  • Step 6 Add the endpoint of this pruntime on the Worker page of Prb (the format is: http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8000)
  • Step 7 Restart the lifecycle component of prb

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How to set up a PRB worker

Just learn from this page: PRB setup