Akash is a decentralized marketplace with a supposed 64 active providers on “Mainnet”. When we logged it in it seemed like there were many different consumer-grade GPUs available. We decided to give it a go an request 1x H200.
Requesting a 1x H200 deployment
Unfortunately, we weren’t able to access any H100 or H200 on the platform. Interestingly, there is an option to request AMD MI100 GPUs, but when we tried to request them or different NVIDIA consumer GPUs (3080, 4090) we couldn’t get anything more than an apologetic loading screen:
After a few hours waiting for a bid for a 4090, and none being found, we moved on. Overall our experience with Akash lends us to thinking that it is basically not ready for any workloads.