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ReginaldIII t1_j04yp5d wrote

Reply to comment by _Arsenie_Boca_ in [Project] Run and fine-tune BLOOM-176B at home using a peer-to-peer network by hx-zero

They banned a lot of people that were running BOINC nodes in their colab sessions.

That sort of work sharing is pretty much in the same spirit as this.

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hx-zero OP t1_j05i3j5 wrote

A Petals client does not allow others to use your GPU by default, you need to explicitly run a Petals server (a separate program) for this.

In the Colab example, we only run the client, so its GPU can't be used by anyone besides the user directly running the notebook.

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ReginaldIII t1_j06l171 wrote

Sorry this is what I meant. I assumed OP was asking about running workers on colab.

Running the client would of course be no different than running anything that needs to draw in assets from the network.

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