SETI@home had 90,000 users at its peak. Even assuming all these users have the most powerful Macbook, and are happy to run it 24/7, the whole fleet still doesn't equal just one of Googles pods.
And googles pods have microsecond latency terabit interconnects, while a fleet of macbooks would have hundreds of milliseconds of latency and low bandwidth...
And Google has many pods...
I'm afraid even a massive team of home users will never beat companies with dedicated hardware.
>SETI@home had 90,000 users at its peak. Even assuming all these users have the most powerful Macbook, and are happy to run it 24/7, the whole fleet still doesn't equal just one of Googles pods.
Well ... SETI@home wasn't trying to create ML boobs for anime waifus! ... I suspect the army of young guys that want to do that would dwarf any other distributed service including bitcoin!
And googles pods have microsecond latency terabit interconnects, while a fleet of macbooks would have hundreds of milliseconds of latency and low bandwidth...
And Google has many pods...
I'm afraid even a massive team of home users will never beat companies with dedicated hardware.