Massive compute, without the data centre.
Forecasts, simulations, parameter sweeps - the heavy, repetitive work behind real answers usually means a punishing cloud bill, or a room full of your own servers.
LiteSolve runs that same work on compute that already exists and mostly sits idle. A fraction of the cost, and a fraction of the footprint.
When more compute means a bigger bill
Say you're running a simulation - how a material behaves, how a disease spreads, how a system holds up under stress. One run tells you almost nothing. The insight comes from running it thousands of times, nudging the variables each time, until the shape of the results becomes clear.
A lot of valuable work has exactly this shape, in research and in business alike: forecasts tested against thousands of scenarios, models swept across every combination of inputs, plans stress-tested against every condition you can think of. The same calculation, run over and over, until the pattern across all the answers is the answer.
And it adds up. Rent cloud servers and the bill climbs fast with volume. Buy your own hardware and you're left paying for it even when it sits idle. And a growing environmental cost sits on top of both: the energy and water those data centres consume.
A data centre that's already out there
Instead of renting or building one, LiteSolve runs this kind of workload on computing power that already exists. Lots of small, idle contributions pool together into something that gets real work done. That buys you two things:
A much smaller bill
You get the same volume of computation for a fraction of the cost, because you're not paying to build and run the infrastructure underneath it.
A much lighter footprint
No new data centre gets built, so there's no new energy, water, or hardware to go with it. If your customers care about that, it counts.
It's not for everything, and we'd rather say so
LiteSolve is genuinely good at some kinds of work and the wrong tool for others. It's worth knowing which is which before you get in touch.
A strong fit for
- Lots of small, independent jobs: batch forecasting, scenario sweeps, “what-if” and optimisation modelling.
- Work with no hard deadline, where it's fine if the answer comes back overnight.
- Workloads that don't need sensitive data to leave your control.
Not the right tool for
- Real-time work that has to answer in the moment.
- Anything that depends on sensitive data leaving the customer's control.
- One big job that can't be broken into independent pieces.
Own a website?
All that capacity has to come from somewhere. With a few lines of code, a website can share a slice of its spare capacity and turn it into useful computation: opt-in, lightweight, and with no hit to the experience your visitors get. It's a smaller part of the story today, but it's what makes the whole thing possible.
Curious? Get in touchThe people building LiteSolve
We're Ronan and Ken, and we've each spent about 25 years building software. Projects like BOINC and Folding@home showed that real scientific work could run on ordinary machines sitting idle in people's homes. So why are we still answering every new computing problem by building another data centre?
There's an enormous amount of computing power already out there, switched on and doing nothing most of the time. We started LiteSolve to put it to work, and to tackle two problems at once: the rising cost of computation, and the footprint of building ever more hardware to do it. If your work involves a lot of repeated computation, we'd genuinely like to hear about it.
Ronan Donohoe
Co-founder
Has run regional offices and multi-functional teams delivering high-stakes work for global brands, reaching millions of users. On LiteSolve he leads product and works closest with the people who use it. If you reach out, it’s Ronan you’ll hear back from.
Connect on LinkedInKen McHugh
Co-founder
Oxford-educated, a chartered IT professional and named inventor on two patents, he has been CTO and technical lead on complex applications and network architectures from startups to government. On LiteSolve he builds the engine that turns idle computing power into real, reliable work.
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LiteSolve is still being built. If any of this sounds like a problem you have — or you're just curious — tell me a little about your work and I'll be in touch. No pitch, no signup.