@svpino: I once let a company pay for 4 GPUs while only using 1. After a few months of running, I wanted to optimize the pipelin…
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The author recounts a costly mistake from underutilizing GPUs and highlights how AI monitoring agents from the Viktor team can prevent such inefficiencies in real-time.
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I once let a company pay for 4 GPUs while only using 1.
After a few months of running, I wanted to optimize the pipeline, and it took me ten minutes to spot my mistake.
They wasted a buttload of money because I didn’t take the time to look at a GPU utilization report.
This was a stupid mistake that shouldn’t happen ever again.
Today, you can have agents look at everything you do, 24/7, and find these types of problems before you even have time to think about them.
Watch the attached video of @viktor_com catching a problem right before it has any consequence.
This alone is worth the world to me.
Thanks to the Viktor team for partnering with me on this post.
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