ACQUIRE COMPUTE
Get a Node
Each section below is a different way to get a compute node for the Gonka Network, with guides, step-by-step instructions and links to providers.
What your server needs
Rent a server that has all of this. GNOT checks every point before it sets anything up.
GPUs of a setup Gonka supports — Every setup, and what it earns, is on Mine or buy.
A dedicated server — Never spot, interruptible or preemptible: a server taken back partway through an epoch is paid nothing for that epoch.
Memory of at least 1.5 × the GPUs' memory — For example 960 GB or more for 8 × H100 (8 × 80 GB).
1,000 GB of disk — Or more.
16 or more CPU cores
Linux with an NVIDIA driver for CUDA 13 — Or CUDA 12.9; pick a system image with CUDA 13 when the provider offers one.
Root login over SSH — GNOT connects with it from your computer. No SSH key yet? GNOT makes one on its first step, ready to paste into your provider's form.
Ports 8000 and 5000 open — In your provider's dashboard.
Spheron
DECENTRALIZED CLOUD PROVIDER
Spheron rents GPU servers by the hour. The walkthrough shows how to rent one for a Gonka node.
Before you rent at Spheron
- Choose a DEDICATED server, not spot
- Set the storage to 1,000 GB or more
- Pick a system image with CUDA 13
- Check the memory is at least 1.5 × the GPUs'
- No SSH key? Create one in GNOT first, then paste it into Spheron
Right now at Spheron
- 2× H200 · $11.18/h · noida-india · CUDA 13.0
- 8× A100 · $12.96/h · omaha-usa-2 · CUDA 13.0
- 4× H100 · $16.92/h · noida-india · CUDA 13.0
- 4× H200 · $22.20/h · noida-india · CUDA 13.0
- 8× H200 · $38.40/h · tokyo-japan-5 · CUDA 13.0
- 8× H100 · $38.40/h · jp-east-2 · CUDA 13.0
Read from Spheron's public price list today, 11:15 PM UTC. Before you rent, check on Spheron's own site.