It would be like a competitor to AWS. Instead of renting hardware from Amazon, you are renting it from personal computers.
Amazon isn’t cheap, especially for higher performance computing, and especially if you want to use gpus—e.g. to train deep neural networks. It currently makes more sense to buy your own hardware. But a lot of people have GPUs just sitting around, and they could make a few bucks and help science, by renting them out. You could possibly even pay back the cost of the GPU at the current market rates.
It would be like a competitor to AWS. Instead of renting hardware from Amazon, you are renting it from personal computers.
Amazon isn’t cheap, especially for higher performance computing, and especially if you want to use gpus—e.g. to train deep neural networks. It currently makes more sense to buy your own hardware. But a lot of people have GPUs just sitting around, and they could make a few bucks and help science, by renting them out. You could possibly even pay back the cost of the GPU at the current market rates.