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How HN took it
14 positive, 37 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 9 critical, out of 60 comments about the project. Thread score +0.05.
Idea: 6 for, 3 againstPricing: 4 for, 3 againstExecution: 0 for, 2 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Youthful optimism and mission praised as a good idea
From 2 comments
I hope you succeed. TPU research cloud (TRC) tried this in 2019. It was how I got my start. In 2023 you can barely get a single TPU for more than an hour. Back then you could get…
sillysaurusx on HNWishing y'all the best of luck. This would be huge for a lot of folks.
ucarion on HN
Objections
Unclear how the project is funded and whether the business model is sustainable
From 2 comments
The billion dollar question is: Who is funding this? Cause if it’s VC then it’s going to have the same fate as everything else after 5-7 years. I hope y’all have as innovative of…
AndrewKemendo on HNPlease take this question without prejudice. Is it accurate to say you’re willing to go into ~20,000,000 USD debt to sell discounted computer-as-a-service to…
jeepers6 on HN
Requests
Explain how access will be sold and resources divided
From 2 comments
How are you going to sell access and divide the resources?
orGANicWeb on HNHow will you sell access and divide the resources?
orGANicWeb on HN
Questions
How the cluster was financed
From 2 comments
How did you get the money to buy 512 H100s?
moneycantbuy on HNOh no, definitely not. We just got a loan. Neither Alex and I are currently VCs, and this has no affiliation with any venture fund. We want to be a customer of the sf compute…
flaque on HN
Hardware setup and scheduler choice
From 2 comments
Will it be a Slurm cluster, or what kind of scheduler are they planning to use?
metadat on HNWhat kind of hardware setup are you planning out? Colocation, roll-your-own data center, something in between? Any thoughts on what servers the GPUs will be housed in?
PettingRabbits on HN
Alternatives named
Lambda Labs
From 2 comments
How does this compare to https://lambdalabs.com/ ?
williamstein on HNCorrect me if I’m wrong but doesn’t Lambda Labs already provide them at 1.89$? What’s the point if you’re starting out not the cheapest
sashank_1509 on HN
Andromeda cluster by Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross
From 2 comments
Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross setup a 2,512 H100 cluster [1] for their startups, with a very similar “shared” model. Might be interesting to connect with them. [1]…
mackid on HNNat & Daniel’s cluster is great, and we fully recommend startups seek out this option as well. Nat & Daniel are some of the best investors one can have
flaque on HN
vast.ai
From 1 comment
I am super interested in AI on a personal level and have been involved for a number of years. I have never seen a GPU crunch quite like it is right now. To anyone who is…
whimsicalism on HN
AWS, Azure and other cloud providers
From 1 comment
> Rather than each of K startups individually buying clusters of N gpus, together we buy a cluster with NK gpus... Then we set up a job scheduler to allocate compute In theory,…
whack on HN