Based on our record, Vast.ai seems to be a lot more popular than SONM. While we know about 223 links to Vast.ai, we've tracked only 2 mentions of SONM. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
There are a few of these type of things, e.g. RNDR token (https://rendertoken.com) and rent a flop (https://rentaflop.com) in rendering, and golem (https://www.golem.network) and sonm (https://sonm.com/) in the "general purpose computing on the blockchain". - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago
SONM (SNM #409 CoinGecko 111M$ Mcap) - https://sonm.com/ - With SONM, users have access to general-purpose computing services of a cloud-like nature, including IaaS and PaaS with hosts around the world that can contribute computing power as part of the SONM marketplace. - Sonm provides cloud services based on distributed customer level hardware including PCs, mining equipment, and servers. You... Source: over 2 years ago
There are already ways to get around this. For example, renting compute from people who aren't in datacenters. Which is already a thing: https://vast.ai. - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago
By "SETI" I assume you mean the SETI@Home distributed computing project. There's a two-way market where you can rent out your GPU here: https://vast.ai/. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago
- https://vast.ai/ (linked by gchadwick above). - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago
Have you considered running on a cloud machine instead? You can rent machines on https://vast.ai/ for under $1 an hour that should work for small/medium models (I've mostly been playing with stable diffusion so I don't know what you'd need for an LLM off hand). Good GPUs and Apple hardware is pricey. Get a bit of automation setup with some cloud storage (e.g backblaze B2) and you can have a machine ready to run... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago
I have heard vast.ai is cheap but I haven't tried it out. https://websiteinvesting.com/reviews/vast-ai-review/. Source: 4 months ago
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