homebrew-golem VS community-golem-docs

Golem, develop Docker applications and make use of their (now) very limited features. It's best suited for heavy calculations, or calculations you can split up between dozens or hundreds of nodes through sharding. A fork is working on bringing GPU & internet access, but it can be hard otherwise. They have a GLM Rewards Program that - generously rewards up to 20 users per month under regular conditions.

For compute, my experience has been the best with Akash, then Golem, then I have been unsuccessful with any other project as of yet. Both of these supports Docker images, but Golem is painfully thorough with securing providers with sandboxing in both networking and workloads. This makes Akash easier to use right now when wanting to run something more advanced such as a custom backend or a Minecraft Server.

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.

Website: http://golem.network/

if you're not using your computer, you can consider letting other people use it! come checkout golem, a distributed super computer similar to Folding@Home, but for all kinds of computation not just protein research. You even earn some money and it's really easy to get started.

This is where the math of VPS on demand for testing vs home starts to matter. OR higher buy in but lower ongoing is SBC boards. Raspberry pi, turingpi, ION whatever boards from nvidia. All have higher cost, more limited abilities (in some ways) but FOR SURE are way lower power/heat than traditional low initial cost/higher ongoing. It's a common issue. Getting yourself a NAS or ESOS or SAN or whatever as an always on, mount it on the projects you need as storage. Depends on what you want, but an always on computer can do a hell of allot. golem.network, idle mining, BOINC for science, etc etc. Dunno, GLHF

It is public and been running for a bit now, seeing as you asked I assume its ok for me to say its golem.network ? Definitely open though if you want to join

Run a golem.network node to rent out some pi's to others who can purchase their compute power, isn't much but glad to help someone when I'm not using it

Maybe this is useful? https://github.com/figurestudios/community-golem-docs/blob/main/coin/migration-faq.md

Requesting your First Task on Golem - if you want to see how it works before committing to the project with your time.

Have you looked into a) Providing for Golem (if not, check out the FAQ too)? It doesn't run 24/7 like mining so you could run it alongside your mining software. It also only uses CPU's for now, so if you're only mining on GPU you can utilize this and CPU minable coins (like Ripple).

Read more here.

There's a great community-created guide (by u/figureprod) that goes through the 6 main steps of getting started for Windows: https://github.com/figurestudios/community-golem-docs/blob/main/providing/provider-setup.md#on-windows

Link here.

Don't want to mine on CPUs? This might make you not like Golem - even though it isn't a constant workload and you can tweak how many cores, how much RAM, and how much storage you allocate to the node. If not, you can get started here. The Raspberry Pi's could also be running Golem nodes on any amount of cores too. Installment instructions for Raspberries can be found here.

Need help? Refer to the provider FAQ or join the discord.