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That's a fair point. I think GPU clusters are the big one, the rest sounds like a good fit for volunteer work.





Or sharing GPU compute. Crowd sourcing.

Ooooh I can see a Seti@Home setup working

Easier said than done, training is usually done on "big iron" GPUs which are a cut above any hardware that consumers have lying around, and the clusters run on multi-hundred-gigabit networks. Even if you scaled it down to run on gaming cards, and gathered enough volunteers, the low bandwidth and high latency of the internet would still be a problem.



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