Cluster One - Building the World's Largest SuperComputer

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    Hi everyone,

    I’m the founder of Good Ai Lab and we have just launched our new product Cluster One - https://clusterone.com/. It’s a very big project that heavily depends on a community of people being involved and I would love to get your feedback on it. At Cluster One we are trying to help advance science by building the world's largest AI supercomputer.

    We understand how much computing power is wasted every day (around 10 billions hours!) and we feel that with our expertise, and if we all join together, we could really make a difference in advancing scientific research.

    The product has just launched this week and so I would love your feedback on the site to understand if everything makes sense and would it be something you would want to try, and if not what would stop you?
     
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    I am already devoting 55 PCs to treating cancer, no part of your spiel lists any positive result planned, you just want a big computer to wave around. AI is mostly ASIC these days, not general purpose CPUs, so there is no hint that you understand the field.

    Your pitch that 10 billion hours were wasted, is either misguided, (we are the ones devoting our hours to current projects, it is why we read this Forum) or you are claiming that all our work on any existing distributed project was wasted. Neither idea gets you any followers here.

    Other than that, have fun!
     
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    JimboPalmer said:
    I am already devoting 55 PCs to treating cancer, no part of your spiel lists any positive result planned, you just want a big computer to wave around. AI is mostly ASIC these days, not general purpose CPUs, so there is no hint that you understand the field.

    Your pitch that 10 billion hours were wasted, is either misguided, (we are the ones devoting our hours to current projects, it is why we read this Forum) or you are claiming that all our work on any existing distributed project was wasted. Neither idea gets you any followers here.

    Other than that, have fun!
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    Thanks for your comment on the thread. I understand where you're coming from and I believe that's due to the lack of information I've provided about Cluster One project.

    We've just launched the website and are trying to build awareness. I've also written an article on Medium explaining why we've created Cluster One.

    To wrap it up - scientific research is heavily relying on computational infrastructure .A year ago, top cancer researchers reported to President Obama about the state of cancer research, and most of their recommendations mentioned large scale computing as a way to move the industry forward.

    AI is not affordable to every company because of the cost to build the infrastructure and algorithms are limited. Of course, there are organisations that are advancing and spreading algorithms (like the Allen Insititute). How our project can fit into the picture - we aim at spreading affordable infrastructure and tools for researchers.

    I'll quote my article here to give you some idea how distributed computing can help:

    Take Diabetic Retinopathy, a disease that affects people with diabetes, and can ultimately cause blindness. It affects nearly 100 Million people in the world.
    For the sake of understanding what it would take to offer a screening solution through AI, let us assume the following.
    explore 100 ideas
    run 50 experiments per idea
    run each of them for a week of computation, on 50 machines

    That’s a total of 42MM compute hours.

    That would cost around $10MM on the public cloud (eg: on AWS’s c4.2xlarge), or several dozens of millions of upfront investment for a private infrastructure.
    Or it could be provided by 15,000 contributors who provide 8 hours of compute a day for a year, on recent computers.

    If I haven't addressed your concerns, feel free to reach out to me or comment.
     
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    My concerns:

    Everyone here is donating their computational resources already,

    either

    1) You have targeted the wrong group,

    or

    2) You are dissing the projects we currently value. (in my case, treating cancer)

    Either way, I doubt we are the audience you are looking for.

    (Imagine harassing blood donors about giving blood, you have targeted the wrong group)
     
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    I wanna point out as much of a lulz as I've had over this one, the response itself is just more copy/pasta action as he's been running the same thread over at Linus Tech Tips. You can see the word for word c/v going on. Also I want to note, I love you Jimbo, haven't felt that killer instinct beat in my chest for a while but then, c-c-c-c-c-combo breaker right into my heart. :eyebrow:
     
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