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jonathanlei

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About jonathanlei

jonathan lei @ voltagepark

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    It's as difficult as a serverless provider to grow as it was for CPUs before GPUs came along. Many companies overinvest in fully-owned hardware, rather than renting from clouds. Ow…

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    Comment #43054840

    Absolutely - GPUs are definitely not a very liquid asset. As someone who works at a GPU neocloud provider (Voltage Park), server assets at scale definitely face a huge slippage, yo…

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    Comment #40665835

    Hello! If you're interested in monetizing those GPUs, I'd be happy to rent them (all 400!) and offer those to customers of the cloud I work at :) jonathan [at] tensordock.com

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    Comment #40290701

    Congrats on the launch! This is huge, and it's really cool to see a cloud provider moving this direction - auction pricing for customers so that you always know you're getting the …

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    Comment #40266609

    Hmm I did include a training workload as the second chart. My test workload was relatively small so I guess if the workload I ran spends a bit less GPU time comparatively to the CP…

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    Comment #40266524

    Oops, just noticed the link isn’t clickable, here you go! https://tensordock.com/benchmarks

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    Ask HN: Are Nvidia H100s that good?

    I was playing around with some different GPUs yesterday and put all of the results here: https://www.tensordock.com/benchmarks I tried a vLLM and Resnet training workload. The H100…

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    Comment #40253617

    Utilization is not going to be 100% --- ever. Discounts are often given, and servers break down, etc.

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    Comment #40226021

    Thanks! :) We do have a managed container hosting service, but it's built on our own backend that auto-scales nodes for you when average GPU utilization surpasses a certain point, …

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    Show HN: TensorDock – GPU Cloud Marketplace, H100s from $2.49/hr

    Hey folks! I’m Jonathan from TensorDock, and we’re building a cloud GPU marketplace. We want to make GPUs truly affordable and accessible. I once started a web hosting service on s…

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    Comment #39378910

    Hi! Jonathan from TensorDock here :) We have our own supply base (sourced through https://tensordock.com/host ), operate some of our own servers, and are not related to any other m…

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    Comment #39378889

    Jonathan from TensorDock ( https://tensordock.com/ ) here - we listed two of our A100 and H100 clusters on the site. The IB equipped on our clusters (can't speak to others) is 8x 4…

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    Comment #34344578

    Non-paywalled snapshot: https://archive.ph/r6mkJ

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    Comment #32656986

    A less anti-bill view: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/30/california-passes-bill-aimed...

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    Comment #32297343

    I think if you offer to sell to them, they will probably give you a lowball offer. Instead, maybe consider trying to grow it on your own, see where you can take it, and if it shows…

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    Comment #32282407

    Disco Diffusion (and generated art in general) is really cool: https://replicate.com/nightmareai/disco-diffusion/examples Happy to give you whatever credits you need (would $25 be …

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    Comment #32282383

    Yeah, feel free to shoot me an email for like $25 of credit. For startups, we usually do $100 (just send a request from your startup email address). Even with $5 credits, we had pe…

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    Comment #32282359

    Whoops, apologies for missing this! For our core cloud product, we only partner with established providers. Large-scale compute wholesalers with $5m+ of compute each in secure data…

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    Comment #32282279

    We will consider! We are working with two potential suppliers in the area... expect more news by the end of the year if those deals go through! :)