Experiment · AI infra

Compute Share Pilot

A tiny proof of concept for trusted friends to share spare computer power over the internet — one coordinator, workers behind home NAT, whole AI requests routed to one machine.

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Simulation of the job flow with placeholder worker names.

What it is

Could a friend in another country run AI work for me on their idle machine? This pilot tests the practical version of that idea before anyone builds a business around it.

What I built

  • A coordinator with an in-memory worker registry and job queue.
  • Polling workers that sit behind home NAT (no port forwarding) and run either a mock response or a local Ollama model.
  • A small client for submitting prompts, preferring a given model tag.
  • A viability write-up on why routing whole requests beats sharding one model across continents, plus the security work needed before going beyond friends.