Thunder Compute

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VMware for GPUs

S24·Summer 2024·B2B·San Francisco, CA, USA·Team of 7·Founded 2022

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About

Thunder Compute is a systems research lab with commercial focus. We productionize GPU virtualization research to provide step-change improvements in utilization to our cloud offering and partner GPU fleets.

Founders

Carl Peterson· Founder
CEO of Thunder Compute, formerly Management Consultant at Bain
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Brian Model· Founder
CTO of Thunder Compute, formerly Quantitative Developer at Citadel Securities
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Product launches · 1 launch

Thunder Compute: Launch GPU instances in one click for 80% less ↗▲ 50Aug 11, 2024
Self-serve GPUs in VS Code with persistent storage, snapshots, and hot-swappable hardware, for 80% less than AWS

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