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I believe distributed compute *could* be one of the few applications where crypto might make sense? You could earn tokens by supplying compute and pay to get it, and the token price is a natural market price for compute.
Then share the profit among the group of people? It’s called a company.
I've often wondered why a service doesn't exist that allows you to rent out your graphics card for the large data processing needed for training models. Like mining bitcoin except you are doing something actually useful and getting paid actual money for it. Example: - Company Alpha needs $40,000,000 worth of cloud computing for their training model - Company Beta provides them said cloud computing for $30,000,000 fro…
I've often wondered why a service doesn't exist that allows you to rent out your graphics card for the large data processing needed for training models. Like mining bitcoin except you are doing something actually useful and getting paid actual money for it. Example: - Company Alpha needs $40,000,000 worth of cloud computing for their training model - Company Beta provides them said cloud computing for $30,000,000 fro…
I've often wondered why a service doesn't exist that allows you to rent out your graphics card for the large data processing needed for training models. Like mining bitcoin except you are doing something actually useful and getting paid actual money for it. Example: - Company Alpha needs $40,000,000 worth of cloud computing for their training model - Company Beta provides them said cloud computing for $30,000,000 fro…
Surprised no one has commented this but the latency requires the model to be trained in tiny fragments on each device which is currently a field of research that is being explored. As it stands now basically all of a model needs to be loaded into memory. There’s a whole field here and people exploring this problem, colloquially solving this would enable Federated Learning and whoever figures this out will far eclipse…
I've often wondered why a service doesn't exist that allows you to rent out your graphics card for the large data processing needed for training models. Like mining bitcoin except you are doing something actually useful and getting paid actual money for it. Example: - Company Alpha needs $40,000,000 worth of cloud computing for their training model - Company Beta provides them said cloud computing for $30,000,000 fro…
I've often wondered why a service doesn't exist that allows you to rent out your graphics card for the large data processing needed for training models. Like mining bitcoin except you are doing something actually useful and getting paid actual money for it. Example: - Company Alpha needs $40,000,000 worth of cloud computing for their training model - Company Beta provides them said cloud computing for $30,000,000 fro…
There's a lot of problems. 1. How can I confirm that you've done the computation? 2. Privacy and security issues. Can I trust you too process my sensitive information? 3. Availability: is there a guarranty you won't just do half of it and then be on a hiatus for 2 months. But for everywhere these problems are solved we have decentralized cloud computing. For others you need to solve these problems.
I've often wondered why a service doesn't exist that allows you to rent out your graphics card for the large data processing needed for training models. Like mining bitcoin except you are doing something actually useful and getting paid actual money for it. Example: - Company Alpha needs $40,000,000 worth of cloud computing for their training model - Company Beta provides them said cloud computing for $30,000,000 fro…
I've often wondered why a service doesn't exist that allows you to rent out your graphics card for the large data processing needed for training models. Like mining bitcoin except you are doing something actually useful and getting paid actual money for it. Example: - Company Alpha needs $40,000,000 worth of cloud computing for their training model - Company Beta provides them said cloud computing for $30,000,000 fro…
Yeah someone posted something like that on HN maybe a year ago. It's not especially useful though because most companies (who are actually going to pay for this service) aren't going to want to send their training data to random people, and ML training needs high performance links between the cards. Plus you'd have to deal with the fact that you're running on 100 different GPU models.
* Servers in a datacenter are much more reliable than a network of PCs (power goes off, someone decides to play Crysis, etc)
* People will find ways to scam you (pretend like they’re doing the calculation while not actually doing it)
* Economies of scale means a datacenter will probably be cheaper than what you’d have to pay the PC owners (power consumption, network, wear, etc)
* The PC owners will have to trust this arbitrary code that they’re running (can you assure that there’s never a jailbreak resulting in a huge botnet?)
I’ve pitched this idea more than a decade ago and quickly realized it has many issues.