GPU clusters

also referred to as: gpu cluster

4 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Feb 19, 2024 by Erik Bernhardsson · across every show →

Everything said about GPU clusters, oldest first

Feb 19, 2024 negative
Opinion
Buying Dedicated GPU Clusters Offers Better Economics for Model Training
“In training, I think, you know, there's less software differentiation. So in training, I think there's certainly, like, better economics of, like, buying big clusters.”
Erik Bernhardsson Feb 19, 2024 ▶ 37:25 Truly Serverless Infra for AI Engineers - with Erik Bernhardsson of Modal
Jun 25, 2024 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Albrecht: Imbue's GPU cluster failure rate is well below industry 3% benchmark
“The number that we've heard from other people is like they're having about three percent. I don't think we're experiencing failure rates that are that high. I think ours is actually quite a bit lower than that, probably because we've taken the time to like dig…”
Josh Albrecht Jun 25, 2024 ▶ 24:56 State of the Art: Training 70B LLMs on 10,000 H100 clusters
Jun 25, 2024
Assertion Supported
Albrecht: 4,000-GPU Three-Tier Cluster Requires 12,000 Cables and 24,000 Plugs
“Like to bring up this cluster you know, with 4000 GPUs and three tier networking, networking architecture, you have 12,000 cables. So that's 24,000 things that need to be plugged in.”
Josh Albrecht Jun 25, 2024 ▶ 28:56 State of the Art: Training 70B LLMs on 10,000 H100 clusters
Apr 11, 2025
Insight
Conrad: Spot GPU cluster utilization nears 100% through dynamic price clearing
“Assuming there are not, like, hardware problems or software problems, the utilization rate is, like, near a hundred percent, because the price dips until the utilization is a hundred percent.”
Evan Conrad Apr 11, 2025 ▶ 26:00 SF Compute: Commoditizing Compute
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