Supporters
This project is run with the support of Z-Space Arts & Technology Society, a non-profit society in British Columbia. Z-Space operates a multi-disciplinary studio space in downtown Vancouver. Members pay for coworking space and collaborate on events and projects together. The origin of SCN was pooled funding for shared hardware purchases running at Z-Space, which has grown to be a principled approach to community scale AI.
Sponsor
Greyhaven
Greyhaven deploys sovereign AI to businesses. They are our preferred business implementation partner for commercial deployments. We collaborate and advise on open source implementations, including the Greywall Sandbox product that secures, observes, and tracks agent connections for your organization.
Funding members
The original funding members who pooled funds to get things started.
- Jacob Ervin, Priority Member
- Mack Hardy, Affinity Bridge
- Manuel Pina, UBC
- Danny Matthews, Taddy
- Peter Van Garderen
- Scott Hadfield
- Jacob Sayles
- Boris Mann
Special thanks
We appreciate the consultation and advice from the UBC Advanced Research Computing (ARC) team. The ARC team have been very supportive with their time and information.
Donations
- 3090 GPU: thank you to Syntacrobat @syntacrobat.xyz for donating and shipping this graphic card from NYC. It's the workhorse running the main Qwen model that we run.
- 64GB DDR5 RAM: a donor who wishes to remain anonymous had some leftover RAM that is extremely useful in these times!
- Dell PowerEdge R730xd and Networking Gear: thank you to Martin Robson of Robson Communications for donating this hardware.
We are happy to discuss other donations or sponsorships. Get in touch hello@sharedcomputer.network.