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Hardware and Network Requirements

Hardware Requirements​

Nodes can run on any hardware for which you can build a golang application.

Our smallest nodes are running GCP on e2-standard-2 instances, with 2 vCPUs, 8GB RAM, and 10GB SCSI drives. This works well for running a node to test out the protocol, or you could even try running it on something much smaller for fun.

While a Masa Protocol node itself requires few resources to run on testnet, if you wish to create a worker node that performs a useful task, such as running an LLM model, your hardware choices should be dictated by the requirements of that task.

Network Requirements​

If your node will participate in the network as a "Worker," doing data scraping, or providing LLM, etc., you will need to open the following ports to inbound traffic:

  • 4001 (TCP; UDP as well if behind NAT)

  • 8080 (TCP)

  • port 8080 is only required to provide access to the API, and can be changed with environment configuration.

  • Only 4001 is required to be open publicly for participation in the p2p Masa Protocol network as a Worker node.

  • A basic node will still find the bootnodes and register itself as part of the network without any specific inbound ports open.