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> How do you make that price-competitive here? Could they be using these GPUs for other purposes during idle times (AI model training, cloud GPU instances)?
by agildehaus 8y ago
> How do you make that price-competitive here?
Could they be using these GPUs for other purposes during idle times (AI model training, cloud GPU instances)?
- kllrnohj 8y agoThey have TPUs for their AI stuff, and you still have to dedicate these resources while gaming sessions are active. How much monetary value can they really get out of the idle population here to offset the active usage?
- puzzle 8y agoYou underestimate how much Google tries to squeeze out of all the machines in its fleet. That includes old ones, sometimes to comical effect. A colleague at my current job told me about utilization targets at Amazon, where he used to work. At Google you could choose to be that wasteful if you really wanted to, but you'd lose headcount. Be more efficient and you'd get more engineers. I.e. you decide if you'd rather get machines or people. There's also an old paper by Murray Stokely and co. about the fake market that was created to make the most use of all hardware planetwide.