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Is there not a distributed computing potential here like there was for crypto mining? Some sort of seti@home/boinc like setup where home users can donate or sel
by solardev 3y ago
Is there not a distributed computing potential here like there was for crypto mining? Some sort of seti@home/boinc like setup where home users can donate or sell compute time?
- latchkey 3y agoThe capex/opex is different for ML/AI than it was for crypto mining. Totally different hardware profiles.
- fragmede 3y agoyou can setup a computer and sell time on it on a couple of saas platforms, but only for inference. for training, the slowness of the interconnect between nodes become a bottleneck.
- solardev 3y agoI see, thanks for the explanation!
- brucethemoose2 3y agoYes, see projects like the AI Horde and Petals. I highly recommend the Horde in particular. Theres also some kind of actual AI crypto project that I wouldn't touch with a 10 foot pole. But ultimately, even if true distribution like Petals figures out the inefficiency (and thats hard), it had the same issue as non Nvidia hardware: its not turnkey.