The Programmable Data Center

@martin_casado’s Nicira virtualized networking by separating the control plane from the hardware. Cisco offered $600m; VMware bought it for $1.3b.

Now that idea is coming to GPU infrastructure.

@evanjconrad, CEO of @sfcompute, joins @swyx at @aiDotEngineer NYC to explain how SF Compute went from subleasing a cluster to making data centers programmable.

We get into:
• Why delivering a GPU trade means running the whole “hotel”
• Interruptions, hardware generations and the GPU order book
• Why physical settlement comes before compute derivatives
• Why Evan thinks NVIDIA can’t build an independent market
• Programmable InfiniBand and the data center as software

The full conversation: