The cryptocurrency mining company now has 1,000 Nvidia GPUs available.
Bitcoin miner and computing infrastructure firm Hut 8 announced the launch of its GPU-as-a-service program on Sept. 26.
The program, developed in partnership with AdvizeX, is aimed at artificial intelligence developers. It will give engineers access to “several” Hewlett Packard Enterprise supercomputers powered by a cluster of 1,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs. For comparison, Microsoft’s OpenAI supercomputer contained 10,000 GPUs as of 2020.
Hut 8 was founded in 2017 as a firm primarily focused on Bitcoin mining. Shortly thereafter, it pivoted to cloud and artificial intelligence services. The technology used for Bitcoin mining and AI development has some overlap, with GPUs being a primary asset for both sectors.
