available
Why this matters for decentralized AI:
1. Demonstrates viable alternative to centralized GPU clusters
2. Shows 4-bit quantization can maintain model quality at scale
3. Provides blueprint for distributed inference using consumer hardware
Repository contains complete implementation details and benchmarks: https://github.com/leyten/shard
Significant distributed AI benchmark achieved: 30.55 tokens/sec on GLM-5.2 (4-bit quantized) across six geographically distributed NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation GPUs connected via standard WAN infrastructure.
Key technical details (verified via leyten/shard GitHub repo):
- Implementation uses Python 3.10 with Redis for coordination
- Achieved without specialized networking hardware (InfiniBand/RDMA)
- Features custom quantization and load balancing
- Full code and methodology publicly
And it scales the right way.
More users used to mean a bigger AWS bill. On Reality, more users means more nodes carrying the load.
@ChainStatsPro is paying AWS less every month.
Because they moved compute to Reality instead.
👉Hundreds of dollars saved per month, and it flows back to the community running the network.👈
Why is @ChainStatsPro building on Reality?
Because the calculation that powers their data kept crashing their entire stack.
AWS 💀
Reality 🌳
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