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Re:Ask HN: Would you use a shared GPU cloud tier? on Wednesday August 07, 2024 @12:48AM (#41178322)
Appreciate it! We're reaching out on a smaller scale for now to manage how many signups we get to not break our systems. Happy to share a demo vid and/or more details at carl (at) thundercompute (dot) com.
Re:Ask HN: Would you use a shared GPU cloud tier? on Wednesday August 07, 2024 @12:45AM (#41178307)
We're running a beta for $10/month for a T4, which is definitely affordable, but we are running at a steep loss for now to test our system at scale. If you're down to be one of the first few users email me at carl (at) thundercompute (dot) com!
Re:Ask HN: Would you use a shared GPU cloud tier? on Wednesday August 07, 2024 @12:42AM (#41178293)
Hey Einsteinx2, we're unsure where the pricing will end up at scale, however we are running a beta with a T4 instance + a CPU-only instance for $10/month, so can guarantee a pretty crazy deal for now :)

If you'd be interested would love to chat more at carl (at) thundercompute (dot) com.

Re:Ask HN: Would you use a shared GPU cloud tier? on Wednesday August 07, 2024 @12:39AM (#41178278)
That's fascinating to hear and I think it would work really well with what we do.

What I am picturing is that you could run the whole workflow including traditional heuristics in a CPU instance, which would connect to a GPU on-demand.

If you are interested would love for you to try this. We're running a (very unprofitable) beta with a T4 instance + a CPU-only instance for $10/month for those who are willing to help us test this with production workloads. If you'd be interested would love to chat at carl (at) thundercompute (dot) com.

Re:Ask HN: Would you use a shared GPU cloud tier? on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @04:54PM (#41114040)
Interesting to hear. What kind of workloads are you running?
Re:Ask HN: Would you use a shared GPU cloud tier? on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @04:50PM (#41114015)
Totally right on all fronts. This has been tough to build and we are still searching for the best use cases. If you are down to chat my email is in my profile, any insights would help us a ton!
Re:Ask HN: Would you use a shared GPU cloud tier? on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @04:47PM (#41113984)
For anyone curious, here is an early prototype of this tech in action:

https://imgur.com/a/2qPN4ru

Would love to hear your thoughts on how we can make this most useful for you!

Re:Ask HN: Would you use a shared GPU cloud tier? on Saturday July 27, 2024 @01:59PM (#41088252)
Fixed, thank you!

Ask HN: Would you use a shared GPU cloud tier?

I.e. a cloud instance that behaves exactly like a normal GPU instance, where behind the scenes the GPU is shared. The advantage here is you only pay when the process is actively using the GPU (not the whole time the instance is running). The downside is the instance would take ~25% longer to run any GPU task.

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