Re:Combine Multiple AWS Instances into a 16-GPU Monster Machine
by manav on Thursday March 31, 2016 @11:14PM
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There is Gridcoin which is a cryptocurrency that rewards for BOINC projects.
I wouldn't be surprised if certain services became more centralized, offloading computing to the cloud. Consumer grade devices would become thin clients (like back in the day). NVIDIA has hinted in this direction, I can remember something about GaaS (Gaming as a Service).
Something like a combination of Freenet, TOR, BOINC, blockchain etc. technologies, using the current "legacy" internet as a backbone, where anyone can voluntarily offer their computing and storage resources to the network at varying levels of participation.
Say you could offer your laptop as a simple discovery/directory node to simply help others connect and find stuff, and your desktop as either a static-content serving node or as a computation node that can host distributed applications, like SETI@home or web apps like Facebook.
Maybe even reward cryptocurrency to those who offer the most resources.