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Re: Show HN: San Francisco Compute – 512 H100s at <$2/hr for research and startups

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

fwiw, https://roomservice.dev/ is currently a 404

Ah yeah, that's normal! Was from my old CRDT company, and works as a good emergency email while we debug our DNS.

I assume it was a Take3 reference. I wanted to point it out, in case it was supposed to return more than a 404.

Re: Show HN: San Francisco Compute – 512 H100s at <$2/hr for research and startups

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554 5.7.1 : Relay access denied 554 5.7.1 : Relay access denied

!!!!!! fixing this. For the moment, evan at roomservice dot dev

Ah, putting out flames live on HN. Back in the day it was on IRC or just on the phone with the customer. I miss those times.

Re: Show HN: San Francisco Compute – 512 H100s at <$2/hr for research and startups

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How does this compare to https://lambdalabs.com/ ?

Ah, we're running a medium amount of compute at zero-margin. The point is not to go sell the Fortune 500, but to make sure a grad student can spend a $50k grant. Right now, it's pretty easy to get a few A/H100s (Lambda is great for this), but very hard to get more than 24 at a reasonable price ($~2 an hour). One often needs to put up a 6+ month commitment, even when they may only want to run their H100s for an 8 hour…

> but to make sure a grad student can spend a $50k grant.

As a graduate student, thank you. Thankfully, my workloads aren't LLM crazy so I can get by on my old NVIDIA consumer hardware, but I have coworkers struggling to get reasonable prices/time for larger scale hardware.

Re: Show HN: San Francisco Compute – 512 H100s at <$2/hr for research and startups

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"Once the cluster is online ..." Where will the cluster be hosted ? May I suggest that you get your IP transit from he.net ?

Not to mention, San Francisco is not known for having cheap real estate, nor is it known for having cheap electricity. My last (residential) bill to PGE, I paid $0.50938/KWh at peak.

Re: Show HN: San Francisco Compute – 512 H100s at <$2/hr for research and startups

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How did you get the money to buy 512 H100s?

From sentence one of the post, it clearly states that they are VC funders who are doing this for a round of startups they just funded, and they're looking for others to be a part of it.

Re: Show HN: San Francisco Compute – 512 H100s at <$2/hr for research and startups

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post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

ask no questions hear no lies

EDIT: They seem to be in a raising fund / debt stage. Great initiative

Their announcement says "We can probably get a good deal from a bank [...]", so maybe they don't just have 20M USD sitting around.

Re: Show HN: San Francisco Compute – 512 H100s at <$2/hr for research and startups

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How did you get the money to buy 512 H100s?

From sentence one of the post, it clearly states that they are VC funders who are doing this for a round of startups they just funded, and they're looking for others to be a part of it.

Oh no, definitely not. We just got a loan.

Neither Alex or I are currently VCs, and this has no affiliation with any venture fund.

We want to be a customer of the sf compute group too!

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