https://www.golem.network/ Haven’t thought of these guys in a while.
Just a few weeks ago they finally launched mainnet!
Show HN: RentMyCPU – An open-source computational network
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Re: Show HN: RentMyCPU – An open-source computational network
#22In 2007 when distributed computing was still a New Kid On The Block, I shared an idea with a colleague for what I considered to be a good idea at the time: Distributed computing for hire. Families around the world have reasonable amounts of computing power that sits mostly unused; why not make a few bucks doing things similar to Folding@Home Seti@Home, but for a price? Get paid for your computations. Of course this w…
One company that this reminds me of is Luminati (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hola_(VPN))
It’s not just your spare compute, but your residential IP address is valuable as an unblockable address for bots and scrapers
Re: Show HN: RentMyCPU – An open-source computational network
#23Funny sidebar, I had an idea for something like this as a feature to a larger product. The scope creep of this concept eventually wound up consuming the entire project and it had to be surgically removed to save the original project. I'd like to revisit the idea someday. Maybe this is my chance?
I will be exitedly following this closely.
Re: Show HN: RentMyCPU – An open-source computational network
#24Re: Show HN: RentMyCPU – An open-source computational network
#25In 2007 when distributed computing was still a New Kid On The Block, I shared an idea with a colleague for what I considered to be a good idea at the time: Distributed computing for hire. Families around the world have reasonable amounts of computing power that sits mostly unused; why not make a few bucks doing things similar to Folding@Home Seti@Home, but for a price? Get paid for your computations. Of course this w…
One company that this reminds me of is Luminati ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hola_(VPN) ) It’s not just your spare compute, but your residential IP address is valuable as an unblockable address for bots and scrapers
They are now Bright Data, I’ve anecdotally heard sketchy shit can happen on their proxies. Scary stuff.
Re: Show HN: RentMyCPU – An open-source computational network
#26In 2007 when distributed computing was still a New Kid On The Block, I shared an idea with a colleague for what I considered to be a good idea at the time: Distributed computing for hire. Families around the world have reasonable amounts of computing power that sits mostly unused; why not make a few bucks doing things similar to Folding@Home Seti@Home, but for a price? Get paid for your computations. Of course this w…
This was a real thing before 2007 and is the reason the "seccomp" syscall came into being with CPUShare/CPU coins (2005).
https://web.archive.org/web/20060118044349/http://www.cpusha...
Re: Show HN: RentMyCPU – An open-source computational network
#27I would love to be able to rent people's spare gpu compute. It's be a lot cheaper than aws or any other cloud service
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#28I would love to be able to rent people's spare gpu compute. It's be a lot cheaper than aws or any other cloud service
Re: Show HN: RentMyCPU – An open-source computational network
#29Just some observations: - I don't have any info on how this works from the repo. 99% of people will click on the repo and click back because of the lack of this. I went on google and found a [this]( https://sideprojects.net/posts/NB697xnBrWQioywoP/rentmycpu-r... ) link, but still no information. - How are payments processed? Do you need to trust the other party a good amount? As a cpu cycle seller, how do I know I'll…
This reminds me of homomorphic encryption: you can perform computations on data while it remains encrypted, which would solve the trust problems you mention afaict. This seems like it would have enormous potential to change the cloud landscape. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption
Re: Show HN: RentMyCPU – An open-source computational network
#30Well done OP, Congratulations on the launch!
Several others have pointed out why they wouldn't use such a service, I would definitely use this; Not to make money per se but to distribute my compute load within my network across the computers, smartphones, tablets, TVs i.e. whatever with a browser capable of running web assembly.
Consumer level distributed computing is my pet peeve and I'm obsessively power conscious about my computing needs. I use low power, silent computing systems in my house that means Intel U/ AMD G series CPU, loads of ARM SoCs, Consoles for gaming etc. and for anything demanding I compute using cloud.
Considering I use only low power systems, I could really use distributed computing to improve my productivity and that's been currently limited to some data science loads using Dask, Modin and occasional use of programming languages designed for DC.
Update: I have added your project link to a distributed computing problem thread on my problem validation platform. Hopefully those who are looking for such a solution would be able to find it there.
[1] https://needgap.com/problems/218-distributing-computing-load...