natfriedman

craigslist for gpu cluster rentals?

Does vast do clusters? This is for clusters.

And to support startups we invest in who need GPUs!

Yeah, ~250-350 per node depending on node spec, volume, etc.

H100s cost $35-40k each

We think there's enough data.

There is a multi-century history of chemical methods destroying scrolls by the hundreds without reading them, so we're not eager to fund that work.

We're thinking about this too. The overall prize pool was about 6x smaller a week ago so we are still digesting this rapid influx of sponsorship.

The grand prize goes to the _first_ team to read 4 passages from the scrolls. But we could, for example, award something to the second team to do so. Or, we could award something to the team that reads the _most_ passages by the end of the year.

We deliberately did not allocate all of the recent sponsorships to the grand prize so we can solve for this exact challenge. So, we have about $500k in unallocated prize money, and might use a good chunk of it towards something like this. We're open to ideas, and consulting with experts from Xprize etc.

Hi folks, I'm the co-creator of the Vesuvius Challenge. We now have nearly $1.5M in prizes, thanks to a lot of amazing sponsors. Happy to answer any questions anyone has.

It seems quite possible that the solution isn't fully automated. N is in the hundreds. And modern AI does, in fact, involve quite a lot of hand crafted data...

Credit for those goes to Jonny Hyman, who also does animations for Veritasium, Dejan Gotić, who did the fancy 3d animations, and JP Posma, who directed the entire project!