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24 alternatives to OpenGL Capable Linux desktop in the cloud for games or graphics

Creating a working GPU accelerated Linux desktop in the cloud - rncry/gpu-desktop

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. OpenGL Capable Linux desktop in the cloud for games or graphics launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Thought the resources for GPU arch were lacking, so here we are

    Apr 2026 · jaso1024.com · its alternatives →

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    Renderro▲205

    Powerful cloud desktop for creatives like you.

    2021 · expressuubar.com · its alternatives →

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    Greetings HN! This is Doruk from Oblivus, and I'm excited to announce the launch of our platform, Oblivus Cloud. After more than a year of beta testing, we're excited to offer you a platform where you can deploy affordable and scalable GPU virtual machines in as little as 30 seconds! https://oblivus.com/cloud - What sets Oblivus Cloud apart? At the start of our journey, we had two primary goals in mind: to democratize High-Performance Computing and make it as straightforward as possible. We understand that maintaining GPU servers through major cloud service providers can be…

    2023 · oblivus.com · its alternatives →

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    [Experimental] Deploy and stream games/apps in the cloud. Use our GPUs or bring your own. - nestrilabs/nestri

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I wanted to play my Steam games but my aging PC couldn’t keep up, so I built Cloudy Pad - a tool to run Steam in the Cloud (GitHub: https://github.com/PierreBeucher/cloudypad) It runs on AWS, Azure, GCP, Scaleway and Paperspace with various cost optimizations and safeties: - Cost alerts - Auto stop inactive instances to avoid unwanted cost - Disk snapshots and data cleanup for cost efficiency - Spot instance support Under the hood: a Linux VM and a container running Sunshine (a streaming server https://github.com/LizardByte/Sunshine) with Steam. Most…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, we are Ed, Zach, and Ronald, creators of Shadeform (https://www.shadeform.ai/), a GPU marketplace to see live availability and prices across the GPU market, as well as to deploy and reserve on-demand instances. We have aggregated 8+ GPU providers into a single platform and API, so you can easily provision instances like A100s and H100s where they are available. From our experience working at AWS and Azure, we believe that cloud could evolve from all-encompassing hyperscalers (AWS, Azure, GCP) to specialized clouds for high-performance use cases. After the launch of…

    2023 · shadeform.ai · its alternatives →

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    Back in the old days, people used to do general-purpose GPU programming by using shaders like GLSL. This is what inspired NVIDIA (and other companies) to eventually create CUDA (and friends). This is an implementation of GPT-2 using WebGL and shaders. Enjoy!

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    We built installable software for Windows & Linux that makes any remote Nvidia GPU accessible to, and shareable across, any number of remote clients running local applications, all over standard networking.

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    The easiest way to use cloud GPUs

    2025 · tensorpool.dev · its alternatives →

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    Hello HN! I’m Jonathan from TensorDock. After 7 months in beta, we’re finally launching Core Cloud, our platform to deploy GPU virtual machines in as little as 45 seconds! https://www.tensordock.com/product-core Why? Training machine learning workloads at large clouds can be extremely expensive. This left us wondering, “how did cloud ever become more expensive than on-prem?” I’ve seen too many ML startups buy their own hardware. Cheaper dedicated servers with NVIDIA GPUs are not too hard to find, but they lack the functionality and scalability of the big clouds. We thought to…

    2022 · tensordock.com · its alternatives →

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    Browse and share GPU-made GIFs. Explore GLSL shader experiments, search by topic, and open any piece in the editor to learn or remix.

    2018 · shadergif.com · its alternatives →

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    Tabs, splits, and tmux work fine until you have several projects open with logs, tests, and long-running shells. I kept rebuilding context instead of resuming work. Horizon puts shells on an infinite canvas. You can arrange them into workspaces and reopen later with layout, scrollback, and history intact. Built in 3 days with Claude/Codex, dogfooding the workflow as I went. Feedback and contributions welcome.

    Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    GPU.LAND▲126

    Affordable cloud GPUs for deep learning

    2021 · vedge.cloud · its alternatives →

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    GPU cloud computing at unbeatable cost efficiency

    2020 · genesiscloud.com · its alternatives →

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    Hello HN, Just wanted to show this little 2D game engine that I've been working on for some time (around 2 years on the editor part, longer on some of the components). It's quite full featured but obviously this a project of such magnitude already that the work never really ends. That being said it's definitely already at a point where games can made and published. The editor runs natively on Windows and Linux using Qt5. The games can run on both Win and Linux as well as on WASM with WebGL. Feature wise there's a bunch of the stuff you'd expect. Audio, graphics, scripting,…

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A Linux desktop in the cloud built for Machine Learning

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, I’m Joe. My friends Matthew, Jake and I are building Luminal (https://luminalai.com/), a GPU compiler for automatically generating fast GPU kernels for AI models. It uses search-based compilation to achieve high performance. We take high level model code, like you'd have in PyTorch, and generate very fast GPU code. We do that without using LLMs or AI - rather, we pose it as a search problem. Our compiler builds a search space, generates millions of possible kernels, and then searches through it to minimize runtime. You can try out a demo in `demos/matmul` on mac to…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Spin highly-scalable Linux containers in 5 secs.Free in beta

    2014 · its alternatives →

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    Review of the open source cloud gaming platform, cloudretrio.io written in golang and using WebRTC for low latency, interactive game play

    2020 · webrtchacks.com · its alternatives →

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    dstack is a unified control plane for GPU provisioning and orchestration that works with any GPU cloud, Kubernetes, or on-prem clusters.

    2024 · dstack.ai · its alternatives →

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    A Linux desktop with a dedicated GPU, in your browser or a native app on Mac, Windows or Linux. Persistent state, auto-pause, and one-click Boost to a bigger GPU.

    Aug 2026 · hinode.run · its alternatives →

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    A local game library and launcher for Linux

    Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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