Computable GPU Index (CGI) is a USD price per GPU-hour, computed from the published on-demand rental rates of a fixed panel of providers. The methodology is mathematically robust, and anyone can verify and reproduce every print.
@inith271 yes! the arithmetics are light plus some small regressions.
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Congrats @raysong What's been the hardest part of getting all 28 providers to agree on data quality and consistency? I'd imagine some are way messier to work with than others.
@croft_benjamin we have a very neat methodology that aggregates the data and scores providers based on the liveness of their data. feel free to check it out!
@kisekiya to be clear, we are using a interquantile mean which is the weighted mean of the central third of the voting mass. the reason why this is better than a simple average is it makes the index resistant to outliers.
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Awesome to see confirmability built in from day one instead of bolted on later. what actually triggered the idea, did you run into this exact pricing problem directly while working on Computable?
Really like the transparency behind this. Having a GPU price index where the methadology is reproducible makes it much more useful than just another pricing dashboard.
Acti
Can contributors reproduce the published values on a standard laptop?
Computable GPU Index (CGI)
@inith271 yes! the arithmetics are light plus some small regressions.
Congrats @raysong What's been the hardest part of getting all 28 providers to agree on data quality and consistency? I'd imagine some are way messier to work with than others.
Computable GPU Index (CGI)
@croft_benjamin we have a very neat methodology that aggregates the data and scores providers based on the liveness of their data. feel free to check it out!
Acti
Why use a weighted median instead of a simple average?
Computable GPU Index (CGI)
@kisekiya to be clear, we are using a interquantile mean which is the weighted mean of the central third of the voting mass. the reason why this is better than a simple average is it makes the index resistant to outliers.
Awesome to see confirmability built in from day one instead of bolted on later. what actually triggered the idea, did you run into this exact pricing problem directly while working on Computable?
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Publishing the methodology makes the index easier to trust.
Computable GPU Index (CGI)
@sylvialane exactly!
Really like the transparency behind this. Having a GPU price index where the methadology is reproducible makes it much more useful than just another pricing dashboard.
Computable GPU Index (CGI)
@albert_nelson1 exactly! glad to hear that you liked it
GPU economic almost as important as model economic . An independent index for tracking the cost of compute feels very timely.
Computable GPU Index (CGI)
@charles_warren2 right on!