About Salad - Democratizing cloud computing (2024)

by utilizing latent consumer resources to power a sustainable, affordable, environmentally friendly cloud for everyone.

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191

Countries with nodes

2M+

Worldwide nodes

12,873

Years of compute

$7M+

Paid out to GPU owners

Crypto Emerges

Salad is Born

On March 27, 2018, Salad is incorporated in the USA.

Seed Investment

Salad raises its principal institutional investment from Utah local Kickstart Seed Fund and Royal Street Ventures.

Alpha Release

Salad's alpha release hits the "Download" button.

100 Concurrent Users

The Kitchen supports 100 simultaneous network connections for the first time.

Supercomputer Status

Salad amasses enough horsepower to outgun Cray's 2010s Jaguar supercomputer.

MVP Release

Salad launches dynamic earnings and enhanced stability.

Seed Plus Investment

Salad raises an additional $3.2mm in venture captial.

1,000+ Users Per Day

More than 1,000 new Chefs join the Salad Kitchen daily.

Salad Raises $17Min Series A

Co-lead by Left Lane Capital and Origin Ventures.

Salad Launches 1.0

The new widget features GPU/CPU dual mining, earning projections, dynamic earnings monitoring, smart workload selection, and instant error troubleshooting.

Bandwidth Sharing

Chefs will have the chance to act as P2P VPN relay nodes, earning extra monthly Salad Balance for spare bandwidth.

New Rewards

Through partnerships and API integrations, we'll add even more subscriptions, games, and gift cards to the Salad Storefront.

Salad Container Engine (Beta)

Limited beta providing access to thousands of GPU-powered containers on the world's most affordable fully managed orchestration platform.

Trust System

The most dependable Salad Chefs will unlock even more profitable workloads.

SaladPay MVP Release

The SaladPay payment gateway and SDK will allow Chefs to spend Balance web-wide and directly in-game.

Storage Sharing

As the Kitchen expands to support P2P storage networks, Chefs will be able to share capacity to earn Salad Balance.

Virtual Machines

Salad will programmatically spin up virtual machines to isolate workloads and standardize the network.

P2P Cloud Gaming

The future of gaming and streaming is peer-to-peer—and powered by Chefs!

AI Workloads

To feed an insatiable hunger for resources, Chefs will be able to opt in for advanced, artificial intelligence workloads.

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Crypto Emerges

Salad is Born

On March 27, 2018, Salad is incorporated in the USA.

Seed Investment

Salad raises its principal institutional investment from Utah local Kickstart Seed Fund and Royal Street Ventures.

Alpha Release

Salad's alpha release hits the "Download" button.

100 Concurrent Users

The Kitchen supports 100 simultaneous network connections for the first time.

Supercomputer Status

Salad amasses enough horsepower to outgun Cray's 2010s Jaguar supercomputer.

MVP Release

Salad launches dynamic earnings and enhanced stability.

Seed Plus Investment

Salad raises an additional $3.2mm in venture captial.

1,000+ Users Per Day

More than 1,000 new Chefs join the Salad Kitchen daily.

Salad Raises $17Min Series A

Co-lead by Left Lane Capital and Origin Ventures.

Salad Launches 1.0

The new widget features GPU/CPU dual mining, earning projections, dynamic earnings monitoring, smart workload selection, and instant error troubleshooting.

Bandwidth Sharing

Chefs will have the chance to act as P2P VPN relay nodes, earning extra monthly Salad Balance for spare bandwidth.

New Rewards

Through partnerships and API integrations, we'll add even more subscriptions, games, and gift cards to the Salad Storefront.

Salad Container Engine (Beta)

Limited beta providing access to thousands of GPU-powered containers on the world's most affordable fully managed orchestration platform.

Trust System

The most dependable Salad Chefs will unlock even more profitable workloads.

SaladPay MVP Release

The SaladPay payment gateway and SDK will allow Chefs to spend Balance web-wide and directly in-game.

Storage Sharing

As the Kitchen expands to support P2P storage networks, Chefs will be able to share capacity to earn Salad Balance.

Virtual Machines

Salad will programmatically spin up virtual machines to isolate workloads and standardize the network.

P2P Cloud Gaming

The future of gaming and streaming is peer-to-peer—and powered by Chefs!

AI Workloads

To feed an insatiable hunger for resources, Chefs will be able to opt in for advanced, artificial intelligence workloads.

How Salad’s Community Cloud Works

Every day, 1000s of users share their resources on SaladCloud for rewards while 100s of businesses run workloads in a secure, affordable & sustainable manner.

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Our Resources

The Salad desktop application helps gamers and everyday webizens share latent compute resources from idle PCs—such as processing cycles, storage, and bandwidth—to earn meaningful rewards for powering various computing workloads deployed on the SaladCloud platform.With over 100,000 monthly active Salad Chefs, our decentralized cloud infrastructure is prepped to nourish innovation, provide affordable container orchestration, and make sure everyone gets a helping of a better web.

About Salad - Democratizing cloud computing (3)

Our Cloud

SaladCloud offers a fully managed container service with the lowest GPU/CPU prices anywhere in the market. Unlike the big cloud monopolies, our distributed cloud is built by the people, for the people.While the GPU supply shortage, expensive cloud bills & the environmental impacts of big data centers continue rising, the compute resources for most of today’s applications already exists - a GPU in every gaming PC. SaladCloud activates this resource, bringing you reliable, affordable compute hardware.

Why Salad

A Compute Crisis

Everywhere you look, big ideas are going hungry. Titans of entertainment are chasing metaverses, but data centers can’t approximate their wildest dreams. Infinite pastimes require ubiquitous infrastructure.

Technological advancement is relegated to the biggest budgets. Steep prices keep data scientists and researchers from real experimentation. Centralized providers may offer reduced rates for reserved utilization—but why should innovation be constrained by predictability? Without a more affordable, more plentiful cloud, the future will belong to the same people as the present. SaladCloud facilitates innovation with performant, available, and entirely people-powered cloud services. Need a champion? We've got thousands.

Community Cloud

Commonly held ideas all start as experiments.By 2030, consumer hardware will overtake data centers as the most reliable and renewable source of elastic compute.

The proof is in the PC. Hardware manufacturers have begun to optimize consumer-grade processing units to perform multi-threaded processes and support virtual compute environments. That's the recipe for community cloud.SaladCloud is a fully people-powered alternative to conventional cloud. Our infrastructure offers high availability, performance, and scalable container solutions for a fraction of the cost. The Salad network currently welcomes 100,000 active nodes per month - and each represents a voluntary contributor to the future of cloud computing.

The Salad Recipe

Latent compute is our secret ingredient. Everyday webizens use Salad to share resources from their idle PCs—like processing cycles, storage, or bandwidth—to power SaladCloud infrastructure in exchange for digital rewards.

By providing powerful incentives to join, Salad has fast become the world's largest decentralized supercomputer. Since founding our network in 2018, Salad Chefs have contributed over 10,000 years of compute processing to power transaction validation and other baseline compute workloads. Salad Container Engine uses a proprietary trust rating system to index node performance, forecast availability, and select the optimal hardware cohort for deployment.

For All Appetites

There's no task too great for our infinite Kitchen.

Our simplified developer tools and SaladCloud API make it possible to deploy on SCE alone or integrate with a multicloud configuration. With the right requirements inputs, you could train massive AI models, compile data synthesis workloads, or distribute video rendering tasks. Salad Container Engine orchestrates container workloads across a global network of decentralized nodes in mere minutes - for half the cost. To get started, please contact our sales team through the form on our homepage.

How Salad Helps

Salad is committed to nourishing the world we share.

In order to offset the environmental impact of our network activities, Salad Technologies makes yearly contributions to charities like #TeamTrees and 1% for the Planet. Salad Chefs share thousands in small donations to environmental charities featured on our community platform, using value earned from our network. The Salad Kitchen has aided disaster relief, sponsored wildlife rescue efforts, and provided indispensable support for global health initiatives - all while offsetting tons of carbon emissions to fight the effects of anthropogenic climate change.

Benefits

Unlimited Vacation

Our employees are real people with real lives. That’s why we encourage everyone to take time to prioritize family, indulge in favorite pastimes, or decompress on a well-earned unplug—without checking those pesky emails.

Company Computer

We outfit every new hire with a laptop or desktop computer, along with any software they'll need to do their best work. There's no spyware pre-installed, but you may need to wipe Bob's old Age of Empires II saves.

75% Health Premiums

We cover 75% of all health insurance premiums for our employees and their dependents—whether or not they elect the company health plan. Salad is healthy, after all.

$500 WFH Budget

Salad employees can expense up to $500 in home office upgrades. Whether you need a new office chair, a spiffier webcam, or a reticulated spline, we'll help you get what you need to build out your corner of the Salad Kitchen.

Our Brand Values

Since our founding, that mission statement has appeared, in some form or another, on everything from blackboards and slide decks to pizza boxes and foreheads. It's a testament to the tireless efforts of everyone who has helped build Salad into a successful company—but a brand is more than a mission statement. The true measure of a brand is the integrity of its viewpoint. Making money may help us pursue the objective, but our brand values represent promises made to ourselves, our partners, and our friends in The Kitchen.

Champion Collaboration

The Internet is a symphony, and we all have an important part to play in its third movement. Our role is that of a facilitator. We believe that the future we call Web3 must enshrine its users and its innovators as equal inheritors. To restore the web's peer-to-peer foundations, we must help everyone participate, forge lasting connections, and beat time for unsung ideas.

Every criticism is a chance to improve, and every wishlist feature is a potential pursuit. Whenever we can, we ask Salad Chefs to share experiences, redefine expectations, and author our community's most emblematic moments.

To best embody the unique visions of our partners, our services must continuously adapt. We choose to explore emergent technologies and embrace changing attitudes, so that SaladCloud will always provide meaningful services to help realize compute applications.

It is our responsibility to advocate for our users and bolster our peers. We consciously and autonomously undertake worthy initiatives, and we refuse to let good ideas die on the vine.

Step up, not on.

We believe that human interactions must originate from a place of careful attenuation. Empathetic humility is the first-stage ablution that fosters understanding between ourselves and everyone we address. Only by respecting our disparate identities and values can we accentuate everyone's contributions.

Our work complements dreams—and never quashes hopes. We practice gratitude to those who make Salad possible, and we celebrate them as the sovereign heroes of their own stories. No one is a data point, a server, or a node, but a real person with real desires.

We give shape to our partners' designs. It is our responsibility to find solutions that incorporate creative ingredients from all stakeholders, develop implementation strategies to suit any palate, and plant our partners' standards firmly atop the next peaks.

There is merit to every ingredient, even if it doesn't make it into the recipe. We do not dismiss ideas without first trying to enhance them with new notions. If we must disagree, we do so only to amplify.

We never talk down to or disparage the people we encounter. Drama is bitter greens, and we save no place for it in our Kitchen.

All truth. No bullsh*t.

Great relationships are built on trust. Honesty is vital to establishing new contacts, and maintaining the trust that defines an enduring partnership. In a world of natural skepticism, we take transparency and forthrightness as our lodestars. We tell the truth in conversation with our users, partners, and peers—even when it's difficult.

Our users will always know exactly what happens on their hardware. We broadcast our intentions as widely as we can, and we strive to provision everyone with the knowledge necessary to make informed decisions about computesharing on Salad.

We hold ourselves accountable to our partners. It is our duty to foresee setbacks, establish firm expectations, and never promise more (or less) than the utmost of our talents.

We speak plainly but thoughtfully with peers. The sooner we understand one another, the sooner we can do great things together.

Salad Chefs answer to the exact height of our knowledge (and no further), and perform at the peak of our effort (and no less). Mistakes are made and forgiven just as readily—but we never allow ourselves to make excuses.

Disciplined, not policed.

We recognize autonomy as the engine of ingenuity. That is why we never implement a rule without first asking how it may affect the game for others. Our team actively promotes a sense of rigorous self-discipline among our peers and community, yet encourages experimentation and flexibility. Some rules shouldn't be broken, but we've found that most are pretty bendy.

We allow our community to interact however they want, as long as no one gets stepped on. Salad Chefs are free to explore and broadcast their identities in our social spheres, plan community events, and adjust our open-source software to their tastes.

Whenever we develop new projects with partners, we take extreme ownership of our commitments, maintain open communication, and inform stakeholders about ongoing developments. SaladCloud customers should never wonder what we've got cooking.

Our staff trusts one another to pursue a high standard of excellence within an individual framework. We get our work done on our own time, our own way—and we mindfully collaborate so our peers can do the same.

About Salad - Democratizing cloud computing (2024)

FAQs

About Salad - Democratizing cloud computing? ›

SaladCloud offers a fully managed container service with the lowest GPU/CPU prices anywhere in the market. Unlike the big cloud monopolies, our distributed cloud is built by the people, for the people.

What does Salad cloud do? ›

Salad is a global cloud platform that harnesses latent compute resources from idle, high-end consumer hardware to power and distribute computing applications more affordably than traditional data centers.

Is Salad trustable? ›

Although the most important thing at Salad is the Redeem System, all the Redeems you do will be legit/safe payed, so you don't have to worry about scam.

Is Salad open source? ›

The open-source Salad desktop applications allows gamers to share compute cycles, storage, and bandwidth.

How does Salad work? ›

Salad allows gamers to earn rewards from their PCs. We turn your GPU power into credits you can spend on items like subscriptions, games, gift cards, and more from our curated storefront.

Is Salad good for your computer? ›

Is Salad Healthy For My PC? Contrary to common opinion, consumer Graphics Cards (GPUs) and CPUs are designed to run at peak performance 24/7, and Salad won't tax your hardware more than playing Far Cry 5 or Battlefield V would.

What is the downside of Salad? ›

In terms of drawbacks, salads can have high levels of fat, sodium, and calories when certain ingredients are added. s of salad toppings laden with fat, sodium, and calories include bacon, cheese, croutons and mayonnaise-based dressings. In addition, the cost of prepared salads can be a nuisance.

Is Salad really worth it? ›

Salads can be a good way to get your important vitamins, minerals, and fiber. However, not all salads are healthy or nutritious. It depends on what is in the salad.

Is Salad.io illegal? ›

Salad is legit, but thanks to the actions of a few bad apples in the crypto space, people have become hesitant to trust new ventures in the industry.

What is better than Salad io? ›

Top 10 Alternatives to Salad Recently Reviewed By G2 Community
  • Amazon EC2. (1,262)4.6 out of 5.
  • DigitalOcean. (560)4.6 out of 5.
  • Google Compute Engine. (825)4.5 out of 5.
  • Hostwinds. (438)4.9 out of 5.
  • Azure Virtual Machines. (440)4.4 out of 5.
  • VMware Cloud Foundation. ...
  • VMware vSphere. ...
  • Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)

Who owns Salad servers? ›

Our Story. Our humble beginnings were born out of a local chicken shop called The Game Gourmet, owned by our founders (and still owners) the Swift family.

Is Salad app profitable? ›

While Salad.io provides a viable and profitable alternative for GPU monetization, it is important to consider electricity costs and their impact on net profitability.

Does Salad affect PC performance? ›

Your CPU will usually be slower for Chopping with Salad than your dedicated GPU, but if you have an incompatible GPU (such as integrated graphics), or a very low end GPU model (such as a GT 1030 or GTX 1050), you may see higher earnings when running on your CPU if it's a mid-range or higher CPU model.

What does cloud brightening do? ›

Marine cloud brightening refers to an albedo modification technique that aims to increase the reflectivity, and possibly even the lifetimes, of certain clouds in order to reflect more sunlight back into space and partially offset some of the impacts of climate change.

What does the cloud do in Terraria? ›

The Cloud block is useful for decorating player-built Floating Islands. Cloud blocks can be used as an alternative to Glass for building translucent structures as it also allows light to pass through. Clouds can be used at the bottom of Hellevators to avoid dying from fall damage.

What does Salad do for the brain? ›

But salads do far more than just maintain memory and sharpen thinking skills. Another study by the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics found that those who ate salad every day had higher reports of vitamins A, B-6, C, E, K, choline, magnesium, and potassium, and folate.

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