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by evervevdww221 3476 days ago
This looks great. great execution! What gpu do I have? how much video memory?

I knew about paperspace the day it came out of yc.

at the time, we were working on a competing product.

but we eventually gave up on the idea. because business wise, amazon is too expensive for this kind of service, making the price not economical for end users.

I don't know too much about the technical details of paperspace, but I believe we did better at resource sharing and cost management. but it was still a tough sell, even for enterprise users.

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We are using NVIDIA Quadros and the new P100's both in "pass-through" mode so you get the whole GPU. The economics of running this kind of business on top of AWS definitely doesn't make sense (we tried for a while). Ultimately we decided to build out our own datacenters (currently one in CA and one in NY) which gives us a huge advantage in that we can really optimize the hardware and also control costs. The end result is that we can offer an instance that is twice as powerful as Amazon's g2.xlarge for about half the price.