Hey HN! Bob here, Founder and CEO of Salad (www.salad.com), a distributed cloud for AI inference at scale.<p>*Why Salad?* Because there’s 400 Million consumer GPUs in the world (~100 Million AI-enabled RTX GPUS) and most of them lie unused for 18-22 hrs a day.<p>These consumer GPUs offer similar or better cost-performance than high-end AI GPUs for many AI/ML use cases (Speech-to-text, batch jobs, text-to-image, computer vision to name a few).<p>With Salad, we have activated this latent compute in everyday PCs to power AI/ML workloads.<p>*How big is our network?* More than 1,900,000 individual PC owners on the network. Around 10K+ GPUs (RTX/GTX series) are running AI workloads from companies at any given time.<p>*What’s in it for AI companies & data scientists?*<p>Users get GPUs at the lowest market price with high scalability<p>*What’s in it for people sharing GPU time?*<p>GPU owners get rewards ranging $20 - $180 depending on the GPU type (Higher vRAM GPUs earn more). These rewards can be exchanged in our marketplace for gift cards, games and more.<p>*How are our prices?*<p>GPU prices start from $0.02/hour and across different consumer GPUs, we have the lowest price and largest scale in the market.<p>For ex, an RTX 3080Ti for AI transcription costs $0.0012/hour with a self-managed OS model on Salad. The next best cost in the market is an API ($0.28/hr).<p>*Who can run on SaladCloud today?*<p>Here are the best fits for our infra today:<p>(1) Needs >3 GPUs running 24*7<p>(2) AI inference workloads or batch processing<p>(3) No compliance-related workloads (HIPAA, etc).<p>As a distributed cloud, we are workload-agnostic. That being said, with our current features & team, we are best poised to support AI/ML workloads. As we grow, we will add more support for other workloads.<p>We’re happy to offer $1000 in free credits if you have a demand for more than 10 GPUs per month running consistently.<p>Just sign up for a demo call and select ‘HackerNews’ in the ‘How did you hear about us?’ field.<p>Book a call to discuss your use case: <a href="https://salad.com/get-a-demo" rel="nofollow">https://salad.com/get-a-demo</a><p>Signup for SaladCloud here: <a href="https://portal.salad.com/" rel="nofollow">https://portal.salad.com/</a><p>To earn with your PC, download the Salad app here: <a href="https://salad.com/download" rel="nofollow">https://salad.com/download</a><p>GitHub Repo: <a href="https://github.com/SaladTechnologies">https://github.com/SaladTechnologies</a><p>Our mission is to democratize cloud computing with a fully people-powered cloud and helping companies break free from the cloud monopoly.
So, I installed it, and my WindowsFirewallControl asked me to add the following to the firewall rules<p>I don't know what t-rex does (it has a T-Rex as an icon) but I definitely recognize that xmrig.exe is a Monero miner. So the language about "Deploy AI/ML production models" appears to be a bit bullshit (pardon my french).<p>I know you posted that 5 days ago, but can you please elaborate why I am running a Monero miner under Salad?<p>Cheers<p>Below the code from my firewall rules (win10pro)<p><i>t-rex.exe Windows Firewall Control C:\programdata\salad\workloads\t-rex-0.26.8\t-rex.exe All Yes Allow Out Any </i><p><i>XMRig miner (xmrig.exe) Windows Firewall Control C:\programdata\salad\workloads\xmrig-cpu-6.21.0\xmrig.exe All Yes Allow Out Any </i><p><i>Salad.Bowl.Service (salad.bowl.service.exe) Windows Firewall Control C:\program files\salad\saladbowl\salad.bowl.service.exe All Yes Allow Out Any </i><p><i>Salad (salad.exe) Windows Firewall Control C:\program files\salad\salad.exe All Yes Allow Out Any </i><p><i>librespeed-cli.exe (librespeed-cli.exe) Windows Firewall Control C:\programdata\salad\workloads\ndm\librespeed-cli.exe All Yes Allow Out Any </i><p><i>Salad (salad.exe) Windows Firewall Control C:\program files\salad\salad.exe All Yes Allow Out Any </i>