# Aethir Introduction

Aethir is best described as distributed cloud compute infrastructure. It aggregates enterprise-grade GPU chips into a single global network to increase the supply of on-demand cloud compute resources for the AI, gaming, and virtualized compute sectors.

What this means is that:

1. **Enterprise GPU Owners** can unlock the potential of their underutilized GPU chips by becoming their own cloud compute provider.
2. **End Users** get access to the affordable on-demand compute resources they need to power their AI training and inferencing workloads, real-time rendering applications, and other virtualized compute operations.

### How it works <a href="#docs-internal-guid-c239a324-7fff-d86e-4dde-de30f9116232" id="docs-internal-guid-c239a324-7fff-d86e-4dde-de30f9116232"></a>

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On the supply side, the process for resource owners is straightforward. They simply register their compute resources with the network, have the resource specifications evaluated and confirmed, and then stake $ATH to be eligible to service requests.&#x20;

On the demand side, end users submit requests to the network which are matched with the most appropriate, high-performance resources. For gaming use cases, the end users are the gamers themselves and are matched to a high-performance resource that contains their requested gaming experience.

Upon delivery and confirmation of satisfactory request completion, rewards flow from the compute buyer and the Aethir treasury to the resource owner.