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> we don't really have a way for the FOSS community to pool together that much money

There must be open source projects with enough money to pool into such a project. I wonder whether wikimedia or apache are considering anything.

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Maybe we can repurpose the SETI@home infrastructure :)

BOINC might be usable but the existing distributed training setups assume all nodes have very high speed I/O so they can trade gradients and model updates around quickly. The kind of setup that's feasible for BOINC is "here's a dataset shard, here's the last epoch, send me back gradients and I'll average them with the other ones I get to make the next epoch". This is quite a bit different from, say, the single-node case which is entirely serial and model updates happen every step rather than epoch.

Or big cloud platform could give some compute for free, give back some of the profit they get from oss.

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