Thunder Compute

Thunder Compute is a cloud platform focused on GPU virtualization. The company describes itself as a systems lab with commercial focus, productionizing cutting edge GPU virtualization research. It aims to make GPUs abundant by using software to better utilize existing chips, addressing the lack of virtualization in the GPU systems layer. The team includes systems researchers and infrastructure experts from Citadel Securities, Aquatic, and AWS. After four years in stealth building research prototypes, Thunder Compute now deploys its findings through its own cloud and enterprise partners.

Thunder Compute is a cloud platform that virtualizes GPUs. The company states that GPUs remain underutilized and that virtualization does not yet exist for GPUs, unlike CPUs, storage, networking, and memory. Thunder Compute aims to fill this gap. It describes itself as a systems lab with commercial focus, productionizing cutting edge GPU virtualization research. The team blends world class systems researchers with infrastructure experts from Citadel Securities, Aquatic, and AWS. For four years the company was in stealth building research prototypes; now it deploys its findings through its own cloud and enterprise partners. The company also announced that it raised a $13 million Series A round to put idle GPUs back to work.

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