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Ask HN: What is everyone's thoughts on renting out personal GPU compute?
Been wondering about this for a bit, but not sure what the viability is for such a thing. We all have some amount of Nvidia gaming GPU's lying at home, which of course are used primarily for gaming. I was thinking of building something that rents out those GPU's and create a distributed marketplace of sorts where folks with GPU's could sell compute to those who need it. With a large enough network of users, it could become a distributed cloud where no single org owns the large swath of compute. It doesn't necessarily have to be on the blockchain. Where does everyone stand on this?
- bigyabai 1y ago> Where does everyone stand on this? Tried it with Mining pools in the Bitcoin era, didn't work.
- farhan0167 1y agomining if I understand it, enabled people to find a new block for the chain. But compute rental would act like a cloud server pool of ec2 spot instances. Incentives for renters are people paying extra bucks to use thier compute, while those who rent could bypass the cloud