Deploy your first workload
The deployment lifecycle from manifest to running lease.
Tenant Overview
Tenants are the demand side of VirtEngine: teams and individuals who need compute — containers, virtual machines, GPU capacity, or HPC clusters — and lease it from competing providers on the open marketplace.
Why deploy on a decentralized marketplace
Section titled “Why deploy on a decentralized marketplace”- Competitive pricing — providers bid against each other for your order; you set the acceptable price bounds.
- Verifiable providers — audits, benchmarks, and reviews are on-chain evidence, not marketing claims (see Choosing Providers).
- Pay for verified usage — funds sit in escrow you control and move only after signed usage records survive a 24-hour dispute window.
- A real dispute process — if a provider’s usage claims look wrong, you can dispute them on-chain before payment, with immutable evidence.
- HPC without procurement — submit SLURM-class jobs to registered clusters with a budget cap instead of negotiating cluster access (see Submitting HPC Jobs).
Your lifecycle in five objects
Section titled “Your lifecycle in five objects”| Object | What it is | Your control point |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Your workload description on-chain | Create, update, close |
| Order | The open request providers bid on | Placement & pricing constraints |
| Lease | Binding agreement with the winning provider | Accept bid; close anytime |
| Escrow account | Funds backing your leases | Deposit, top up; unspent funds are yours |
| Usage records | The provider’s billed claims | 24-hour dispute window on every record |
You pay the agreed lease price for verified usage. Marketplace settlement has 0% protocol commission; low validator transaction fees apply only to the on-chain actions. Your total exposure is capped by what you put in escrow: an empty escrow account closes the lease rather than accruing debt.
Understand payments
Escrow accounts, settlement timing, disputes, and closing out.
Pick the right provider
Reading audits, benchmarks, and reviews before you lease.
Run HPC jobs
Templates, job specs, budgets, and cluster selection.