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An exaflop of mixed-precision compute for $250M over 3 years. That’s ballpark what the HPC community is paying for their exaflop-class machines. You’d still bu
by moconnor 9y ago
An exaflop of mixed-precision compute for $250M over 3 years. That’s ballpark what the HPC community is paying for their exaflop-class machines.
You’d still build your own for that money, I think, but it’s an interesting datapoint.
- dx034 9y agoHow long if you build it your own incl electricity prices? If margins are similar to other EC2 instances, you'd probably break-even after 6 months or so. Which makes EC2 uneconomical for any lab/company that can utilise the cluster 24/7. Still nice if you quickly need to get some model results though.
- dharma1 9y agoIf you're going to be running it for 24x7 for 3 years, I think it'd be worth doing the apples-to-apples comparison of buying your own V100s vs renting them from AWS. The DGX Station with 4 V100s is $70k
- dexterdog 9y agoIt wouldn't be $250K over 3 years. It would be $250K up-front to get the lowest current pricing.