<p>Maybe not exactly what you are asking for but <a href="http://coinlab.com/" rel="nofollow">CoinLab</a> have a mining pool that intends to use the computing power of their members for jobs other than hashing.</p>

<p>From the Bitcoin talk <a href="https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=99643.msg1089915#msg1089915" rel="nofollow">forum topic</a>:</p>

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  <p>We’ve identified a number of opportunities to monetize our growing GPU cluster at a higher rate than Bitcoin mining, particularly for NVIDIA cards:  Protein Folding, Computational Finance, and Big Data Analysis, just to name a few.</p>
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kirian
<p>Bitcoin mining pools are like lending / borrowing cpu time, but it's only for hashing.
Is there something more general; a market where you can lend and borrow cpu time, disk space and so on?</p>

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Is there a bitcoin market for CPU time / memory space / disk space?
yhirai
# Is there a bitcoin market for CPU time / memory space / disk space?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2012-12-08)

Bitcoin mining pools are like lending / borrowing cpu time, but it's only for hashing.
Is there something more general; a market where you can lend and borrow cpu time, disk space and so on?

**Tags:** cpu, marketplace, storage-footprint


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### Answer by username_1 on 2012-12-08. Score: 2

Maybe not exactly what you are asking for but [CoinLab](http://coinlab.com/) have a mining pool that intends to use the computing power of their members for jobs other than hashing.

From the Bitcoin talk [forum topic](https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=99643.msg1089915#msg1089915):

> We’ve identified a number of opportunities to monetize our growing GPU cluster at a higher rate than Bitcoin mining, particularly for NVIDIA cards: Protein Folding, Computational Finance, and Big Data Analysis, just to name a few.


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