What Is GPU Cloud Computing?

GPU cloud computing is the rental of accelerator capacity by the hour, month or multi-year contract instead of buying and hosting hardware.

Renting suits variable demand, early experimentation and teams without facility expertise. Buying begins to make sense at sustained high utilisation, where the payback period on hardware is shorter than the equivalent rental spend, and where you can secure power and space.

Most serious operations end up blended: reserved or owned capacity for steady baseline training and inference, on-demand cloud capacity for bursts and for access to the newest hardware generation before it can be procured.