While NVIDIA might be today’s king of Deep Learning Hardware, I can’t help the feeling that there is a new player lurking in the shadows. You see, GPU-based mining of bitcoin didn’t last very long once people realized the economic value of owning bitcoins. Bitcoin very quickly transiti...
The challenges that need to be overcome to fully benefit from volunteer cloud computing will be firstly in minimising the over- heads for setting up a highly virtualised environment given that the underlying hardware will be heterogeneous and ad hoc. More- over, there are security and privacy ...