Distributive

Cloud & Digital InfrastructureKingston, ON

Kingston, Ontario company operating the Distributive Compute Platform, a web-stack-based distributed computing network that pools idle CPU and GPU capacity from institutional devices and meters it, with worker clients including browsers, Windows, Linux, Docker and Android.

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Company site: distributive.network

Kingston, Ontario company operating the Distributive Compute Platform, a web-stack-based distributed computing network that pools idle CPU and GPU capacity from institutional devices and meters it, with worker clients including browsers, Windows, Linux, Docker and Android.

  • Federal corporation 1031871-0, legally Distributive Corp., status "Active (Annual filings overdue)". The register records a former name, Kings Distributed Systems Ltd., used from 2017 to 2022-05-01. ised-isde.canada.ca

  • Describes DCP as a distributed computing framework built on modern web technology that creates sovereign and scalable CPU and GPU compute economies. distributive.network

  • Is candid about limits: states DCP is not designed for tightly coupled distributed training, CUDA-dependent workloads, or frameworks requiring synchronized GPU execution. distributive.network

  • Received $1.3M of Supercluster co-investment as project lead of DIGITAL's Project Looking Glass, within a $2.2M total project value. The figure is to the named recipient, not a programme envelope. digitalsupercluster.ca

  • Founder Daniel Desjardins is recorded in the federal register as controlling at least 25% and up to 50% of shares, held directly and individually since 2018. ised-isde.canada.ca

Products & Services

Company site: distributive.network

Products Distributive publishes on its own site. Each card links to the page it was taken from.

Distributive Compute Platform (DCP)

Distributed compute platform

Company describes developer tools, orchestration, compute engines and metering, with frictionless compute APIs, simple worker deployment, the ability to buy and sell compute in open or closed economies, and security grounded in web standards.

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Government & Grants

Government support actually received. Unpublished amounts are left out.

  1. DIGITAL (Canada's Digital Technology Supercluster) — Project Looking Glass, Supercluster co-investment to Kings Distributed Systems as project lead

  2. Next Generation Manufacturing Canada (NGen) — Low-cost Machine Vision project

    C$100.0K2022ngen.ca

Recent News

  1. Jul 1, 2026Research

    Galaxy kinematics at survey scale

    Distributive published a project page describing DCP distributing the 3KIDNAS bootstrap uncertainty stage for the WALLABY HI Survey across a worker pool, marked Live with a first distributed run in July 2026.

  2. May 1, 2026Research

    Psoriatic arthritis biomarker discovery completed on DCP

    Distributive published a project page describing an exhaustive distributed search over roughly 426 million gene pairs from the GSE57383 dataset, marked Complete, started April 2026 and completed May 2026.

People

Sourced from the company's own pages or announcements.

Daniel Desjardins

Co-founder; director and significant controller per the federal register

Technology Focus

Company site: distributive.network

Terms the company uses about its own work.

Distributed computeEdge computingCompute metering

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