Based on our record, Vast.ai seems to be a lot more popular than iExec. While we know about 223 links to Vast.ai, we've tracked only 8 mentions of iExec. 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 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 / 3 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 / 5 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 / 5 months ago
I have heard vast.ai is cheap but I haven't tried it out. https://websiteinvesting.com/reviews/vast-ai-review/. Source: 5 months ago
Ontochain projects have not yet begun to use the sidechain, but they should be very soon. The oracle factory upgrade from the beta version, should also give much more usage to the iexec marketplace. You can find current usage at :https://iex.ec/ . Source: over 1 year ago
Let us know what you think: https://iex.ec. Source: almost 2 years ago
iExec (RLC) claims to have developed the first decentralized marketplace for cloud computing resources. Blockchain technology is used to organize a market network where users can monetize their computing power, applications, and datasets. By providing on-demand access to cloud computing resources, iExec is reportedly able to support compute-intensive applications in fields such as AI, big data, healthcare,... Source: almost 2 years ago
There are also lots of compute networks, that compete with cloud offerings of AWS, and google cloud and microsoft. Like Golem, pp.io, iex.ec, etc. Source: about 2 years ago
It's the explorer listed on iexec's website https://iex.ec/. Kinda alarming if a person wanted to setup an account with them to have a worker earn RLC. Looks like they wouldn't even be able to and it's been down for hours. Source: over 2 years ago
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