[nicholsonpk]

It's a nice thought from a community manager but I just checked Nvidia's GeForce Now game streaming service where I pay $5 a month to get access to 6 hour sessions and a ray tracing GPU and it's not available. Seems like a better headline would be "Reddit user reminds PC gamers that Folding@Home exists. Nvidia's twitter account agrees."

[anamexis]

Certainly Nvidia could just use the spare capacity themselves to do it, instead of asking paid subscribers to do so.

[readingnews]

You would think. And where is AWS? Spare cycles for humanity?

Its like driving through some burger joint where they ask you to spare change for the needy... since you know, you have so much money, and the burger joint can not possibly afford it.

[ubercow13]

Is it likely that a large cloud company has more spare capacity than the sum of all home GPU owners? I'd have thought a cloud company would optimise for the maximum possible utilisation of their infrastructure, whereas most gaming GPUs are probably off 99% of the time.

[Spooky23]

The cloud providers are all getting hammered with customers right now.

[willis936]

Extra capacity in a compute center equates to less power being used. That power is the largest running cost. Maybe they maxed out their tax writeoffs idk.

[rumanator]

More often than not the spare change jar is organized by employees.

[lowdose]

It's never enough look at how Bezos got treated when he donated for the Australian fire hazard. Last time he probably gave a handout.

[johnghanks]

Can Hackernews just once not try to find a negative interpretation of something positive posted here?

[klyrs]

Each of us has a high probability of doing that several times a day. But the chances for all of us, on every story for a day... nah, not gonna happen.