That seems to be the point: you leverage existing workstations on your corporate network and run compute batches at night while they're idle. You don't have to buy any extra servers for your low-priority AI workloads.
We were doing this decades ago with engineer's HP C3600s under their desks. It wasn't AI, just low-priority HPC / fluid stuff batched out to hundreds of workstations.
And on IRIX, SunOS, and DG-UX boxes too. Once Linux existed for a bit, they were added to the fold. The software to do this - Condor - is still maintained.
That was the original pitch for Ian Murdock's Progeny startup in the late 90s: a Linux-based distributed filesystem for corporate desktops to boot into overnight for distributed computing.
I did not know about it, but it's actually linked in the LLM friendly doc [1].
Seems like some rules around being able to use parsing tools such as regex, and general formatting.
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