awesome-golem VS siad

If you want to run scientific calculations or similar, I highly recommend Golem. Right now, its best applications are ones that can scale by sharding, to use parallel computations. Think doing 100 similar small jobs on 100 computers instead of 1 large job on 1 computer. One average CPU-month costs $3.17, or you can rent 100 CPU-hours for $0.44. Notable examples are blender_cuda which runs on a GPU, and the entirety of awesome-golem.

Adding the repository to the awesome-golem repository. Doing this makes it possible to scout a neat and organized list of projects, without having to do much digging. There are categories that help go through the list quickly, for those that are looking for something specific.

There are lots of use cases on Golem. Many of which were created by the community. You can keep track of them relatively easily on Awesome Golem (all the applications on that list were created within the last year, for the latest implementation, Yagna).

See everything you can do with Golem: https://github.com/golemfactory/awesome-golem

Golem as a project is larger than it's ever been, there's an awesome list of community created apps and tools, the network has more nodes this year than it has before (stats), there's been over 300k GNT / GLM given out to the community in the GLM Rewards Program, not including bounties and hackathons in the last year (48,000 GLM + 83,180 USDC).

The Golem ecosystem is growing steadily (here’s our Awesome list in case you missed it, recently listed on the overall Awesome repository with over 160k stars!)

There are actually already quite a few things you can do with Golem already before Thorg. It's part of the reason why Awesome Golem, containing all the useful stuffs is already listed on the overall Awesome repo which is the 8th highest starred repo on GitHub.

It's also much easier to build applications on the new network as a potential requestor. We have a lot of community-created apps that people can run and/or learn from. There are also tools that are community-created which never existed around Clay Golem. You can find most of them listed here on Awesome Golem.

Awesome-Golem - for pre-existing applications.

For example, decentralized data storage projects like Filecoin, Arweave, and Sia posted 50-100% user growth, providing blockchain-powered alternatives to AWS, Google Cloud, and Dropbox for distributed app data security.

Sia - A decentralized data storage platform where the proof of work helps maintain the network and provide storage services.

Our site: https://sia.tech/ Blockchain explorer: https://explore.sia.tech/ How to get Siacoins: https://sia.tech/community-ecosystem?software=exchanges#software The Sia Foundation team: https://sia.tech/about-sia-foundation The Sia Grants Program: https://forum.sia.tech/c/foundation/grants/8 Sia docs: https://docs.sia.tech

Sia

If I'm following correctly, I believe this is basically what Sia does, although not optimized to be used directly as a media server (or maybe it could?).

https://sia.tech/

Not sure what you aught to do, but I will say the 2 projects Im paying attention to are https://www.helium.com/mine and https://sia.tech/

For consumer storage, Sia, Storj, and Vult (on Züs) can be good options since they are architecturally lower cost because of the erasure code technology. But for enterprise storage, among the available platforms, there isn’t a direct competitor to AWS S3 except for Zus, and archive storage, Filecoin is the best alternative, and for consumer storage, Storj, Sia, and Züs offer better options for fast retrieval times.

As long as your needs are not beyond a TB, you can always consider something that does not require an actual "login" or a national currency, such as using SIAcoin (https://sia.tech). The cost for a terabyte hosted in two places often will cost you under the equivalent of $6-8 per month. It takes getting used to, but since it is blockchain based, it might even be possible for you to mine the means of paying for your cloud storage if what you actually need hosted is low enough.

SiaCoin which is the utility token for the Sia ecosystem https://sia.tech/