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Re:A Dynamic and Distributed Virtual GPU Cloud Built on Idle... by Telemakhos on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @09:25AM (#50071366)
That seems to be the point: you leverage existing workstations on your corporate network and run compute batches at night while they're idle. You don't have to buy any extra servers for your low-priority AI workloads.
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Re:A Dynamic and Distributed Virtual GPU Cloud Built on Idle... by jprd on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @09:36AM (#50071543)
We were doing this decades ago with engineer's HP C3600s under their desks. It wasn't AI, just low-priority HPC / fluid stuff batched out to hundreds of workstations.
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Re:A Dynamic and Distributed Virtual GPU Cloud Built on Idle... by macintux on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @09:58AM (#50071881)
That was the original pitch for Ian Murdock's Progeny startup in the late 90s: a Linux-based distributed filesystem for corporate desktops to boot into overnight for distributed computing.
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Re:A Dynamic and Distributed Virtual GPU Cloud Built on Idle... by mgerdts on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @08:43PM (#50080982)
And on IRIX, SunOS, and DG-UX boxes too. Once Linux existed for a bit, they were added to the fold. The software to do this - Condor - is still maintained.

https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~danb/ref-v7.7.5/ref.html

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