The Programmable Data Center — Evan Conrad, SF Compute
- Who
- Evan Conrad
- What
- explained SF Compute’s physical settlement model, compute market, and programmable data center
- Quote
At AI Engineer New York, we went deeper: what does it take to physically deliver a GPU contract, and what has to be true before a market in compute can become liquid?
What happened
SF Compute CEO Evan Conrad explains how the company built cloud operating capabilities to physically deliver compute traded on its market. Its order book matches differing hardware and workload constraints rather than requiring standardized contracts, a tradeoff that fragments liquidity. Conrad also argues for an independent market operator and describes a shipped feature that lets customers subdivide InfiniBand fabric on the fly.
The story so far
SF Compute CEO Evan Conrad explained how the company built cloud operating capabilities to deliver the compute traded on its market and has shipped a feature that lets customers subdivide InfiniBand fabric on the fly. SF Compute’s order book matches differing hardware and workload constraints instead of requiring standardized contracts. That accommodates differences in the compute being traded but fragments liquidity. Conrad also argued that the compute market should have an independent operator.
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