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Gpulist – Craigslist for GPUs

by etaioinshrdlu on 2/15/24, 1:05 AM with 38 comments

• by padolsey on 2/15/24, 1:40 AM

  Hmm who's this for? vast.ai seems far more reputable and competitive: https://cloud.vast.ai/create/ Why would I bother getting in touch with a random seller when there's a whole eco-system already in existence?

• by KomoD on 2/15/24, 2:06 AM

  I expected this to be actual GPUs for sale

• by minimaxir on 2/15/24, 2:13 AM

  Relevant context: this is being headed by Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman.

  https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1757923480434323521

• by dartos on 2/15/24, 1:26 AM

  Am I misunderstanding something, or are these prices insane?

• by peter_d_sherman on 2/15/24, 5:33 AM

  I can almost visualize future commodity/options/derivatives trading market around underlying GPU per hour rental prices...

  You know, a contract to rent a cetain GPU at a certain price per hour for a certain number of hours -- would be sort of like a commodity delivery contract.

  Once those are created, then options, but more broadly, financial derivatives -- could be created on top of those...

  Once those are created -- they could then be traded, held long, sold short, and otherwise "invested in" and/or "speculated on" -- depending on what terminology one prefers...

  Also, to be clear, I'm not saying that this should be done -- only that it could be done...

  That is (and pardon this exceptionally bad pun!) -- with respect to trading possibilities around the GPU rental prices market, you could say I am only speculating! :-) <g> :-)

  Anyway, thumbs up for GPUlist!

• by pizza on 2/15/24, 1:36 AM

  Can you add the cost of the minimum reservation inline too? E.g. if it were $1/gpu/hr and "Minimum 1 GPU for 1 week" then make that text "Minimum 1 GPU for 1 week ($168)". This would allow faster comparison between options when on a budget.

• by silisili on 2/15/24, 2:26 AM

  If it doesn't have creepy guys making missed connection posts about women they saw and were too afraid to talk to, it's not Craigslist.

• by erikaww on 2/15/24, 1:49 AM

  Should take it to the next level and make it automatic- AirBnB for gpus

• by sjwhevvvvvsj on 2/15/24, 2:05 AM

  Truth is indeed stranger than fiction - none of my cyberpunk bingo cards had this on it.

• by throwaway81523 on 2/15/24, 1:33 AM

  This is like vast.ai right? Or is it even the same place?

• by latchkey on 2/15/24, 3:12 AM

  Limited to only 3 types of GPUs?

• by ilaksh on 2/15/24, 2:08 AM

  Is TensorDock a vast.ai wrapper?