[HN Gopher] Show HN: gpudeploy.com - "Airbnb" for GPUs
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Show HN: gpudeploy.com - "Airbnb" for GPUs
Hi HN, YC w24 company here. We just pivoted from drone delivery to
build gpudeploy.com, a website that routes on-demand traffic for
GPU instances to idle compute resources. The experience is similar
to lambda labs, which we've really enjoyed for training our
robotics models, but their GPUs are never available for on-demand.
We are also trying to make it more no-nonsense (no hidden fees, no
H100 behind "contact sales", etc.). The tech to make this work is
actually kind of nifty, we may do an in-depth HN post on that soon.
Right now, we have H100s, a few RTX 4090s and a GTX 1080 Ti online.
Feel free to try it out! Also, if you've got compute sitting
around (a GPU cluster, a crypto mining operation or just a GPU) or
if you're an AI company with idle compute (hopefully not in a
Stability AI way) and want to see some ROI, it's very simple and
flexible to hook it up to our site and you'll maybe get a few
researchers using your compute. Nice rest of the week!
Author : nicowaltz
Score : 30 points
Date : 2024-05-04 21:03 UTC (1 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.gpudeploy.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.gpudeploy.com)
| malfist wrote:
| I'm curious how a business pivots from drone delivery to GPU
| Airbnb?
| exe34 wrote:
| I got it from the line about how they trained their robot
| models - think of Amazon pivoting to aws, the substrate becomes
| the commodity. Unless you're asking if it makes sense, or what
| went wrong? Then I don't know. I imagine startups that survive
| usually pivot from something else?
| MikeTheGreat wrote:
| I've never run a start-up (successful or otherwise :) ) but
| I've also heard that being able to pivot can be really useful
| - Flickr is often cited as an example.
|
| Also, "GPU on demand" sounds _a_lot_ easier than "drone-based
| delivery". Between Seti@Home/Folding@Home/etc, various grid-
| computing/clustering/orchestration stacks that already exist,
| etc it seems reasonably doable to implement in a year or so.
| "drone-based delivery" sounds capital-intensive, sounds like
| you'll need to spend a lot of time building a professional
| network of business people who might use the service (so
| there's a 'cultural friction' between techie founders and
| business folks, potentially), plus the ever-looming threat of
| Amazon/etc figuring this out first.
|
| tl;dr: I agree it's weird pivot, and good on the founders for
| being able to make the change! :)
| kristopolous wrote:
| They're chasing money. It's a tactic
| a2128 wrote:
| What's so unique about this compared to just using RunPod?
| yeldarb wrote:
| Love the concept.
|
| I've used vast.ai (similar "Airbnb for GPUs" pitch) for years to
| spin up cheap test machines with GPUs you can't really find in
| the cloud (and especially consumer-grade GPUs like 4090s). Any
| insight into how this is different/better?
| ganoushoreilly wrote:
| Im also interested in what the differing factor is. Would also
| like to see more documentation for onboarding rather than just
| "Ubuntu and root available".
| idiotsecant wrote:
| This is an interesting idea but it would be cool if it were more
| granular, like I pay while my payload is executing only, and an
| API abstracts away which GPUs I'm running on, the execution
| environment, etc and just let's me push in code and get out data
| when it's done. Maybe that's what this is, not sure. I hit an
| account sign up before I could figure it out.
| spxneo wrote:
| doesn't seem all that cheap compared to whats available
| bllchmbrs wrote:
| For those that wants prices checkout: https://gpumonger.com/
|
| This seems much more in depth, and a true service, but for those
| that just want to compare prices check out gpumonger.
| krasin wrote:
| Related: https://vast.ai is good and cheap. Just don't put any
| sensitive data on these GPU machines.
|
| I've been a happy user of vast.ai for some time now.
| overgard wrote:
| Pretty neat, but is there any Windows or MacOS support planned? I
| wouldn't mind renting out my GPU when it's idle, but I don't
| really want to go through the process of dual booting etc.
| EE84M3i wrote:
| What's the security story here?
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