Sealevel
Smart Contracts
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Solana's parallel smart contract runtime that allows non-overlapping transactions to execute concurrently. Parallelism increases throughput when transactions access different accounts.
Appears in 5 whitepaper sections
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Abstract
...ansaction forwarding protocol (Gulf Stream), a parallel smart contract runtime (Sealevel), and a Proof of Replication scheme for distributed storage verification. Toget...
Outline
...ns, verifies signatures on the GPU, executes transactions in parallel using the Sealevel runtime, and writes the results to the ledger. We present performance projectio...
System Architecture
... │ │ (Execute)│ │ (Ledger) │
│ Network │ │ ed25519 verify │ │ Sealevel │ │ PoH + │
│ packets │ │ on CUDA cores │ │ parallel │ │ S...
Performance
... shared state, parallelism is reduced and execution becomes the bottleneck. The Sealevel runtime is designed to maximize parallelism by executing non-conflicting transa...
Conclusion
...rasure coding and tree-structured propagation to distribute blocks efficiently. Sealevel executes non-conflicting transactions in parallel across multiple CPU cores. An...
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