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Show HN: Couldn't afford GPUs as a student. Built my own cloud GPU provider

2 pointsby Samin100over 6 years ago
Last semester while working on deep learning side projects (most notably a TensorFlow CharRNN chatbot trained on ~500k of my own text messages) I&#x27;d always come across the same problem: I couldn&#x27;t afford GPUs as a broke college student.<p>After being fed up spending more money on cloud resources than I did on food, I decided to build my own cloud GPU provider with prices ~3-5x less than AWS, GCP, and Azure.<p>This was done by aggregated underutilized servers from different hosting providers across the world and developing a layer of abstraction over their heterogenous hardware, then letting people use it for far cheaper than AWS.<p>It&#x27;s live at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vectordash.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vectordash.com</a> - you can create a Linux VM within seconds.<p>Any feedback or feature requests would be much appreciated and happy training!

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coolspotover 6 years ago
NVidia hates this one simple trick.
anonfunctionover 6 years ago
You have ~500k personal text messages?
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