Meris Network has joined the Aethir ecosystem as a compute provider. Aethir runs a decentralized GPU cloud for artificial intelligence, cloud gaming, and other work that needs a graphics card on demand. Meris brings a pool of lent GPUs into that cloud.
Aethir’s hosts connect their own machines, and Aethir schedules the capacity for customers who need it. The platform already places inference, rendering, and cloud-gaming workloads with independent providers, from high-performance servers through to larger deployments. Adding Meris extends that supply with cards people already own and already leave running.
Meris Network is in public release following a closed beta. Anyone with a spare GPU can lend part of it. A worker is installed on the computer that holds the card, and the lender chooses how much memory to share. The rest of the card stays with the machine. When the owner needs the GPU, the worker steps aside. When the card is free, it can take inference jobs. Customers pay to run those jobs on the network, and lenders are paid from the work their card completes. The setup takes a few minutes, runs in the background, and can be paused at any time.
The result is a standing pool of inference capacity. The cards are already purchased and already powered, in homes and offices rather than in a single new build-out. One lender might share a few gigabytes. Another might share most of a larger card. Meris gathers those shares into one network and routes paid jobs across whichever machines are online. A team that needs inference can come to Meris directly, and the same capacity can now be offered to customers who already buy GPU time on Aethir.
The two sides meet on inference. Aethir’s customers need cards they can book as the work arrives. Meris keeps a distributed set of GPUs online for exactly that, with the lender still in control of the machine. A job can land on a single capable card or be spread across several, depending on the model and the memory each machine has offered. That sits alongside the dedicated servers already available through Aethir, and it gives both the customer and the lender a clear path: work in, payment out, hardware staying where it is.
People lending through Meris keep the same controls they have today. They set the share of each card, they see the machine in their account, and they can pause whenever they want. Earnings come from jobs the network completes. The Aethir relationship gives those jobs a wider home. Capacity from Meris providers is offered into the Aethir ecosystem, alongside the hosts Aethir already schedules.
Meris is open to new lenders and to teams that need inference. Aethir is open to customers who want GPU capacity from a decentralized cloud. With this join, a card lent on Meris can serve demand that arrives through Aethir.
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