Brokkr, Hydra's new GPU marketplace

For the past year, our engineering and product team at?Hydra Host?has been working on completely rethinking the way we access bare metal machines. As the world swarmed for more and more GPUs and the next era of cloud computing is upon us, we saw our customers continue to request more bare metal GPUs. We decided to double down on high-performance computing, and we set out to find underutilized compute worldwide. We wanted to build the easiest way to buy and sell bare metal GPUs at wholesale rates anywhere in the world. We wanted to create the first instantaneous bare metal marketplace - the Kayak or Airbnb for GPU infrastructure.

Today, we are granting full public access to our GPU marketplace. We call our marketplace Brokkr, which is the Nordish god of metalworking. We have almost?$100,000,000?worth of NVIDIA GPUs under management in virtually any timezone. We have everything from A4000s up to DGX H100s. Our supply is growing monthly from mom-and-pop data centers in the Midwest to vast data centers in Europe and Asia.

The Hydra team is proud to show you what we have been working on and how it can help you access the best GPU for the best price anywhere in the world.

If you want to rent bare metal GPUs, Brokkr is the best place to buy as the big cloud providers do - directly from data centers. When you buy directly from data centers, you get wholesale rates. These rates are similar to what they offer big tech companies and cloud companies. Customers typically save between 15-50% on the overall GPU costs.

When you use Brokkr to buy GPUs, here is what you get:

• A single universal API and access point for all Hydra providers—no more multiple accounts or confusing billing. We simplified security and user roles.
• We only sell bare metal machines for maximum performance and cost advantages. You don't need to worry about performance issues with VMs or noisy neighbor problems. With us, the entire GPU machine is yours.
• Provisioning happens in minutes rather than hours or days. You don't need to wait for someone to reply to your email or for a cloud company to get more supply.
• De-provision happens easily and quickly. All the contracts with the data centers in our network are automatic.
• We follow the best security practices. We bake in encryption into all of our servers. You have a secure connection, and neither Hydra nor our suppliers have access—maximum privacy for all your workloads.
• Soon, we will be rolling out pre-installed Cuda and other packages. We will make it super easy for you to move workloads around to different providers based on cost and performance.

If you want to sell GPUs and your inventory (whether a DC or an enterprise colo), our software plus small hardware device handles everything you need to monetize your inventory.

• No more complicated, bloated, and expensive software. Our software is lightweight, bulletproof, and stable. Installation takes minutes over days or months. You can be up and running in less than a day. A single device can manage thousands of machines.
• Everything you need to sell your GPU/CPU inventory, from payments to security to networking, is included. We designed Brokkr to be as easy as possible to install and as fast as possible to make money.
• You get to determine your pricing. We don't control the pricing of our suppliers and what inventory is available for rent. Whether an H100 or an RTX 4090, our marketplace is ready for whatever inventory is idle or hardware that you want to monetize more efficiently.
• For the first time, you can genuinely advertise the unique qualities of your data center that impact your price and service offering, from location to power to security.
• Additional features include the ability to sell pre-orders, your own custom-designed storefront, a scheduler, private networking, and much more.

I wanted to acknowledge the astounding work of our engineering team - Ariel Deschapell , Aman Saran , Otho Ulrich , Thomas Juranek , Bojan Zekanovic , Larkin Rogers, MBA, PMP, PSM I , Edward Bawolek , Fabricio Policarpo , and Kent Kingsley.

You can sign up here. We have hundreds of GPUs ready for you - https://brokkr.hydrahost.com/login

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