SF Compute

6 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Apr 11, 2025 by Evan Conrad · said 41 times in 7 episodes since 2024 · across every show →

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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
Apr 11, 2025 negative
Insight
Conrad: Grad students are the worst customers for traditional GPU clouds
“And the grad students are like the worst possible customer for the traditional GPU clouds, because they will immediately turn if you sell them a thing, because they're going to graduate and then like, I'm going to go anywhere or they're not going to like, that…”
Evan Conrad Apr 11, 2025 ▶ 37:10 SF Compute: Commoditizing Compute
Apr 11, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Conrad: HPC Hardware Reliability Issues Are Unlikely to Disappear
“Like the hardware problems aren't going away until the underlying vendors fix things. But honestly, I don't think that's likely because you're always pushing the limits at HPC. This is the case of trying to build a supercomputer”
Evan Conrad Apr 11, 2025 ▶ 52:25 SF Compute: Commoditizing Compute
Apr 11, 2025 bullish
Disclosure
Conrad: SF Compute plans cash-settled futures to de-risk data centers
“What we're trying to do is create an underlying spot market that gives you an index price that you can use. And then with that index price, you can create a cash settled future. And with a cash settled future, you can go back to the data centers and you can sa…”
Evan Conrad Apr 11, 2025 ▶ 48:00 SF Compute: Commoditizing Compute
Apr 11, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Conrad: Decentralized compute networks will never beat co-located InfiniBand clusters
“I just don't really think this is gonna ever be more efficient than a fully interconnected cluster with Infiniband, or, you know, whatever sort of next spec might be. Like, I could be completely wrong, but Speedolite is really hard to beat. And regardless of w…”
Evan Conrad Apr 11, 2025 ▶ 34:33 SF Compute: Commoditizing Compute
Apr 11, 2025 bullish
Opinion
Conrad: SF Compute is the only true liquid bid-ask GPU market
“Turned into what is today SF compute, which is a compute market, which we think we are the functionally the most liquid GPU market of any capacity. Honestly, I think we're the only thing that actually is like a real market that there's like bids and asks and t…”
Evan Conrad Apr 11, 2025 ▶ 24:36 SF Compute: Commoditizing Compute
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