Thunder Compute (YC S24)

What it does

Get your hands dirty with the same GPUs powering OpenAI, virtualized to save 40% beyond even the cheapest budget options.

Thunder Compute makes GPUs abundant with GPU virtualization research, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise partnerships that unlock more data center capacity.

Every scarce resource in computing becomes abundant. CPUs, storage, networking, and memory all made this transition, GPUs have not. For GPUs, abundance will come not only from building more chips, but from using software to make better use of the chips already deployed. Today, GPUs remain underutilized. The best solutions sit at the workload layer, batching inference requests or queueing training jobs across fleets of servers. Meanwhile, the systems layer remains largely untouched. Virtualization is now universal for CPUs, storage, networking, and memory, but does not yet exist for GPUs. Thunder Compute exists to fill this gap. We are a systems lab with commercial focus, productionizing…from thundercompute.com

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