SadlyDistributed: Simplifying Volunteer Computing

Peeyush Kushwaha

Peeyush Kushwaha

Sadly Distributed (Winner: HackInOut 5.0)

Making volunteer computing easy. Zero Setup for volunteers. Easy for developers.
We compile your distributed code in almost any language to WebAssembly and then all of it is executed in a cluster of browsers. Anyone who just opens our website in their browser will share his or her computing power with us.

Motivation

We are aware of the amazing computing power of our laptops and phones. What if the scientist around the world would be able to use it when its lying idle (which is most of the time)? What if everyone with a computing device, a browser, and a decent internet connection would be able to contribute to such amazing research happening around the world? Today's world is a sucker for computing resources. ML, AR, VR, Blockchain and tons of other cutting edge tech require tons of computing resources.
There are several nice volunteer computing platform like BONIC, GridCoin, etc. But all of them suffer from a common problem: complex and heavy installation process. Even I, as a techie, hesitate to go through all that hassle. You know setting up anything sucks. Therefore, we came up with SadlyDistributed.
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Posted Sep 22, 2025

Developed SadlyDistributed at HackInOut, India's largest community hackathon. Winnning Project.