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It's a nice thought from a community manager but I just checked Nvidia's GeForce Now game streaming service where I pay $5 a month to get access to 6 hour sessi
by nicholsonpk 7y ago
It's a nice thought from a community manager but I just checked Nvidia's GeForce Now game streaming service where I pay $5 a month to get access to 6 hour sessions and a ray tracing GPU and it's not available. Seems like a better headline would be "Reddit user reminds PC gamers that Folding@Home exists. Nvidia's twitter account agrees."
- anamexis 7y agoCertainly Nvidia could just use the spare capacity themselves to do it, instead of asking paid subscribers to do so.
- readingnews 7y agoYou would think. And where is AWS? Spare cycles for humanity? Its like driving through some burger joint where they ask you to spare change for the needy... since you know, you have so much money, and the burger joint can not possibly afford it.
- thulecitizen 7y agoJeez what an irresponsible comment. In your world how would the CEO be able to afford that new yacht for a well-needed break?
- rumanator 7y agoMore often than not the spare change jar is organized by employees.
- lowdose 7y agoIt's never enough look at how Bezos got treated when he donated for the Australian fire hazard. Last time he probably gave a handout.
- willis936 7y agoExtra capacity in a compute center equates to less power being used. That power is the largest running cost. Maybe they maxed out their tax writeoffs idk.
- Spooky23 7y agoThe cloud providers are all getting hammered with customers right now.
- ubercow13 7y agoIs it likely that a large cloud company has more spare capacity than the sum of all home GPU owners? I'd have thought a cloud company would optimise for the maximum possible utilisation of their infrastructure, whereas most gaming GPUs are probably off 99% of the time.
- johnghanks 7y agoCan Hackernews just once not try to find a negative interpretation of something positive posted here?
- klyrs 7y agoEach of us has a high probability of doing that several times a day. But the chances for all of us, on every story for a day... nah, not gonna happen.