Turbine
Network & Protocol
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A block propagation protocol used by Solana that breaks data into smaller pieces and transmits them through a layered network. It aims to reduce bandwidth requirements and improve propagation speed.
Appears in 5 whitepaper sections
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Solana
Abstract
...PoH with a Tower BFT consensus mechanism, a data plane optimized for streaming (Turbine), a mempool-less transaction forwarding protocol (Gulf Stream), a parallel smar...
Network Design
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The data plane uses a protocol called Turbine, which is designed to maximize the use of network bandwidth while minimizing th...
System Architecture
...ion data and execution results, is then transmitted to other validators via the Turbine protocol and written to local persistent storage.
The Cloudbreak state storage...
Performance
...ers), this number rises to approximately 5 million transactions per second. The Turbine block propagation protocol ensures that the network's aggregate bandwidth is ut...
Conclusion
...tes the mempool by leveraging the predictable leader schedule that PoH enables. Turbine uses erasure coding and tree-structured propagation to distribute blocks effici...