Run a lab with no capital budget
Turn a hardware purchase into a line item you can stop. Useful when the grant is annual and the experiment is not.
Grant money arrives annually and the experiments do not. A hardware purchase is a decision you cannot take back; an hour of GPU time is not.
Why it is hard
Capital and research move at different speeds
A purchase has to be justified before the work that would justify it has been done, which is the wrong way round.
The cluster is contended exactly when you need it
Shared institutional hardware is busiest at the moments everyone's deadlines coincide, which is when the queue matters most.
Hardware ages against a fixed budget
A card bought this year is competing with next year's for the same result, and the budget line does not adjust.
What answers it
An expense you can stop
Turn a purchase into per-second consumption. The commitment ends when the container does, so an unfunded month costs nothing.
Capacity that is not your institution's queue
Live listings from independent providers, filtered by card, VRAM and region.
Use the newer card when it matters
Renting means the generation you use is a per-run decision rather than a purchase you are living with.
How billing works
per second, to the microeuro · no minimum · no egress fee · idle costs nothing
Metering starts when the container does and stops when it stops. The rate is frozen the moment you match, so a provider re-pricing cannot change a running rental, and an aborted run costs what it used.
What you use from Kracht
Related jobs
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- ComputeFine-tune on a scheduleA job that runs nightly needs a GPU for the hour it runs, not for the day around it. Per-second metering makes the difference the whole business case.Read the job
- ComputeServe inference when traffic spikesAdd capacity for the hours you need it and stop paying when the spike passes. Nothing continues to bill after the container stops.Read the job