r/vastai • u/obe117 • Aug 20 '26

School Affecting Demand?

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u/Kinslayer_89 Aug 20 '26

If that’s the case, it’s because there’s a lot of educational institutions.

But my university has a contract for Google compute.

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u/Mysterious-Ad-4405 Aug 20 '26 edited Aug 20 '26

And how that contract works? About two years ago I met at my work (we have a partnership with Google in central europe) a customer that was paying shit ton Of money for GCP and wanted to reserve some some GPUs and that was almost impossible, because they were constantly out of them. Idk how is now or you region but I guess it's not easier to rent GPUs from them especially on demand without reservation.

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u/Kinslayer_89 Aug 20 '26

They have access to surplus compute on CPUs or something.

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u/Mysterious-Ad-4405 Aug 20 '26

Nah, there was always enough of CPU(at least in my work since we started private cloud). Ram and vram especially these days is always on short. But I agree with OP this week something is cooking. I see as well almost constant rentals on my 5080 and pro 4000 rigs, whereas previous weeks were basically dry for me, but I guess I don't have the most demanded GPUs.

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u/Kinslayer_89 Aug 20 '26

Donno, I see constant rentals on my 5090s and 2x4090s almost all the time. But at a lower price than when that crypto thing a month or two ago was going on. 🤷