# Project export: Shard

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## Project metadata

- Hackathon: TreeHacks 2024
- Tagline: A distributed system to train models across heterogeneous computers
- Devpost: https://devpost.com/software/shard-i03hcs
- GitHub: not linked
- Result: winner (Pear VC: Most Likely to Get Funded ($1.5k Cash))
- Team: contributor stats unavailable

## Devpost submission (written by the team)

### Inspiration

: The single biggest problem and bottleneck in training large AI models today is compute. Just within the past week, Sam Altman tried raising an $8 trillion dollar fund to build a large network of computers for training larger multimodal models.

## README (from the GitHub repository)

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## Detected evidence (automated analysis)

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- JavaScript (language) — claimed on Devpost, not found in the code
- Python (language) — claimed on Devpost, not found in the code
- React (technology) — claimed on Devpost, not found in the code

## Codebase structure

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## Key source files

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