Federated distribution of computation and operations using networked processing units

A method for orchestrating functions in a network compute mesh, comprising:

• receiving, at a network-addressable processing unit of a network-addressable processing unit mesh from a requestor device, a computation request to execute a workflow with a set of objectives;
• querying at least one other network-addressable processing units of the network-addressable processing unit mesh using the set of objectives, to determine aspects of available resources and data in the network-addressable processing unit mesh to apply to the workflow;
• transmitting a list of recommended resources available to execute the workflow to the requestor device, the list of recommended resources being ranked based on at least one dimension of the available resources;
• obtaining a compute chain from the requestor device, the compute chain describing resource control transitions and data flow provided from resources in the list of recommended resources and data in the network-addressable processing unit mesh;
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• scheduling the execution of the workflow at one or more network-addressable processing units in the network-addressable processing unit mesh in accordance with the compute chain.

At least one non-transitory machine-readable medium including instructions for orchestrating functions in a network compute mesh, which when executed by a machine, cause the machine to:

• receive, at a network-addressable processing unit of a network-addressable processing unit mesh from a requestor device, a computation request to execute a workflow with a set of objectives;
• query at least one other network-addressable processing units of the network-addressable processing unit mesh using the set of objectives, to determine aspects of available resources and data in the network-addressable processing unit mesh to apply to the workflow;
• transmit a list of recommended resources available to execute the workflow to the requestor device, the list of recommended resources being ranked based on at least one dimension of the available resources;
• obtain a compute chain from the requestor device, the compute chain describing resource control transitions and data flow provided from resources in the list of recommended resources and data in the network-addressable processing unit mesh;
• and
• schedule the execution of the workflow at one or more network-addressable processing units in the network-addressable processing unit mesh in accordance with the compute chain.