Hyperwave is a technology that brings the power of the a hyper scaled infrastructutre to everyday users, without the need for a data center or cloud provider. It is a new way of thinking about how we can leverage the power of a community of interested users to provide the power we need to supercharge our projects. So while hyper refers to a hyper scale of computing power, the wave refers to all of that power being available to you in a single wave of computing power.

Realistically, any process that can be broken down into smaller tasks can be accelerated by Hyperwave. This is because the Hyperwave network is able to distribute the tasks to the most available and powerful computers in the network, and then reassemble the results in a fraction of the time it would take a single computer to do the same task. So even though our initial scope is to provide a platform for video transcoding, animation rendering, AI model training, and a few other tasks, the possibilities are endless.

But why now? Why is Hyperwave so important now?

Throughout my career and hobby projects, I've always been intrigued when my computer would take hours to process something. I once had to convert a video file from one format to another to play it on a PS3, and it took 24 hours to process. I thought to myself, there has to be a better way. I again thought about this when I was building an animation for a project, where even a 4 second scene took more than 8 hours to render (and I even had to do it two times because I messed up on the first!). When I look around my house, even I have a few computers that are just sitting there, not doing anything. I thought to myself, what if I could leverage all of these computers to supercharge the activity? That's when I started to think about Hyperwave. But the scale doesn't have to stop there. What if I could build something that would allow anyone to use it? What if all users had an acclerator for their projects?

Can't someone just go to the cloud for this?

Well, yes and no. The cloud has the scale for nearly any size workload, but not everyone is able to afford it, especially for hobbyist projects. On top of that, even if someone had the resources in cloud or the ability to provision them, the end result is some servers, not a series of patterns that remove the guesswork of building a distributed system.