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Re: Show HN: sllm – Split a GPU node with other developers, unlimited tokens

#21

$40/mo for deepseek r1 seems steep compared to a pro sub on open ai /claude unless you run 24x7. im not sure how sharing is making this affirdable.

> $40/mo for deepseek r1 seems steep compared to a pro sub on open ai /claude unless you run 24x7.

"Running 24x7" is what people want to do with openclaw.

Re: Show HN: sllm – Split a GPU node with other developers, unlimited tokens

#22

This is an excellent idea, but I worry about fairness during resource contention. I don't often need queries, but when I do it's often big and long. I wouldn't want to eat up the whole system when other users need it, but I also would want to have the cluster when I need it. How do you address a case like this?

We implement rate-limiting and queuing to ensure fairness, but if there are a massive amount of people with huge and long queries, then there will be waits. The question is whether people will do this and more often than not users will be idle.

Is there any way to buy into a pool of people with similar usage patterns? Maybe I'm overthinking it, but just wondering

Re: Show HN: sllm – Split a GPU node with other developers, unlimited tokens

#23

This is an excellent idea, but I worry about fairness during resource contention. I don't often need queries, but when I do it's often big and long. I wouldn't want to eat up the whole system when other users need it, but I also would want to have the cluster when I need it. How do you address a case like this?

We implement rate-limiting and queuing to ensure fairness, but if there are a massive amount of people with huge and long queries, then there will be waits. The question is whether people will do this and more often than not users will be idle.

Rate limit essentially is a token limit

Re: Show HN: sllm – Split a GPU node with other developers, unlimited tokens

#25
> How does billing work?

> When you join a cohort, your card is saved but not charged until the cohort fills. Stripe holds your card information — we never store it. Once the cohort fills, you are charged and receive an API key for the duration of the cohort.

Have any cohorts filled yet?

I’m interested in joining one, but only if it’s reasonable to assume that the cohort will be full within the next 7 days or so. (Especially because in a little over a week I’m attending an LLM-centered hackathon where we can either use AWS LLM credits provided by the organizer, or we can use providers of our own choosing, and I’d rather use either yours or my own hardware running vLLM than the LLM offerings and APIs from AWS.)

I’d be pretty annoyed if I join a cohort and then it takes like 3 months before the cohort has filled and I can begin to use it. By then I will probably have forgotten all about it and not have time to make use of the API key I am paying you for.

Re: Show HN: sllm – Split a GPU node with other developers, unlimited tokens

#26
post #3

1. Is the given tok/s estimate for the total node throughput, or is it what you can realistically expect to get? Or is it the worst case scenario throughput if everyone starts to use it simultaneously? 2. What if I try to hog all resources of a node by running some large data processing and making multiple queries in parallel? What if I try to resell the access by charging per token? Edit: sorry if this comment sound…

1. It's an average. 2. We have sophisticated rate limiter.

Does it take user time zones into account?

Re: Show HN: sllm – Split a GPU node with other developers, unlimited tokens

#28

This is an excellent idea, but I worry about fairness during resource contention. I don't often need queries, but when I do it's often big and long. I wouldn't want to eat up the whole system when other users need it, but I also would want to have the cluster when I need it. How do you address a case like this?

We implement rate-limiting and queuing to ensure fairness, but if there are a massive amount of people with huge and long queries, then there will be waits. The question is whether people will do this and more often than not users will be idle.

To be fair this is the price you pay for sharing a GPU. Probably good for stuff that doesn't need to be done "now" but that you can just launch and run in the background. I bet some graphs that show when the gpu is most busy could be useful as well

Re: Show HN: sllm – Split a GPU node with other developers, unlimited tokens

#29

25 t/s is barely usable. Maybe for a background runner

> 25 t/s is barely usable. Maybe for a background runner That's over a 1000 words/s if you were typing. If 1000 words/s is too slow for your use-case, then perhaps $5/m is just not for you. I kinda like the idea of paying $5/m for unlimited usage at the specified speed. It beats a 10x higher speed that hits daily restrictions in about 2 hours, and weekly restrictions in 3 days.

Sure if it was just a matter of typing. But in practise it means sitting and staring for minutes at nothing happening with a "thinking" until something finally happens.

I mean my local 122b is only 20t/s so for background stuff it can be used for that. But not for anything interactive IME.

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