[HN Gopher] Fly.io Has GPUs Now
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       Fly.io Has GPUs Now
        
       Author : andes314
       Score  : 36 points
       Date   : 2024-02-13 22:06 UTC (53 minutes ago)
        
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       | iambateman wrote:
       | It's cool to see that they can handle scaling down to zero.
       | Especially for working on experimental sites that don't have the
       | users to justify even modest server costs.
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       | I would love an example on how much time a request charges.
       | Obviously it will vary, but is it 2 seconds or "minimum 60
       | seconds per spin up"?
        
         | mrkurt wrote:
         | We charge from the time you boot a machine until it stops.
         | There's no enforced minimum, but in general it's difficult to
         | get much out of a machine in less than 5 seconds. For GPU
         | machines, depending on data size for whatever is going into GPU
         | memory, it could need 30s of runtime to be useful.
        
       | holoduke wrote:
       | Anybody has experience with the performance. First glance is that
       | they are quite expensive. Compared to for example Hetzner (cpu
       | machines)
        
       | andes314 wrote:
       | Has anyone who has used Beam.Cloud compare that service to this
       | one?
        
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