Vacancyd – lend your spare workstation compute to your homelab

My workstation has always been the most powerful compute station in my homelab but it usually spends the majority of the day idling while I work or signed out while I sleep. Making it useful to the homelab at large can often mean choosing between turning it into another cluster node or fighting with virtualization and passthrough.

vacancyd is my open-source project that allows a hybrid option. Your workstation keeps its operating system and applications while other home-lab applications borrow spare capacity for local AI. You choose what resource they borrow and when.

A gate checks new requests before they reach local AI services. Work already accepted and running can be drained immediately or gracefully. The owner console shows what's available and why a request was refused.

Source/download route: https://github.com/maxfield-allison/vacancyd