The Supermini: a home GPU cluster arbitraging home power and bandwidth
"Base Layer Episode 209: Greg Osuri, Founder of Akash Network on Decentralizing Compute" (Base Layer)
“The Super Mini is… really a GPU cluster that sits in your home and really designed for like tinkerers or researchers, AI researchers… What Super Mini does is it brings the device to the home and essentially utilizing the subsidized bandwidth and the power that you get in the home, because most of the cost in a data center is the power… and kind of like resells that to a user at a significantly lower cost.” — 00:26:04
Context: Asked about the Supermini product; he says it’s “inspired by Helium” (he bought a Helium device in 2019 and calls it “extremely profitable”) and the owner earns by selling compute on Akash.