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possible, yes, people already have projects
practical, not yet, if ever (?)
the difference is data and calculation dependencies, in crypto they are independent
by verdverm
Datacenter-scale GPGPU compute is extremely efficient compared to what you would achieve with a network of independently operated distributed heterogeneous devices spread across the world. Just imagine the overhead for ensuring that a node doesn't poison the gradients. And that's just one very small part of the problem.
by bjourne
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- Hacker News
- possible, yes, people already have projects
practical, not yet, if ever (?)
the difference is data and calculation dependencies, in crypto they are independent
by verdverm - Datacenter-scale GPGPU compute is extremely efficient compared to what you would achieve with a network of independently operated distributed heterogeneous devices spread across the world. Just imagine the overhead for ensuring that a node doesn't poison the gradients. And that's just one very small part of the problem.by bjourne