Conductor on X-Cloud Benchmarks: In Summary X-Cloud offers a broader range of more modern, performant NVIDIA GPUs than other major cloud providers, contributing to improved performance, faster runtime, and lower overall costs for rendering on Conductor. GPU benchmarks: X-Cloud NVIDIA GPU-powered instances are consistently more performant than instances available from the other cloud providers on...
Best GPUs for Rendering: How to Pick the Right Instance for Your Renders on Conductor
In Summary: With Conductor on X-Cloud, Conductor users now have more high-performance compute options to complete their renders in less time and at a lower cost. The most powerful GPU may not always be the right option for your workload. When choosing the best instance type for your rendering, consider the GPU type, the number...
The New Power Grid: Evaluating Specialized Infrastructure for AI
In Summary: AI companies looking to keep pace with the rapidly changing industry face a common challenge: How to plan for and access the GPU infrastructure needed to train and serve models. X-Cloud is a premium cloud provider purpose-built for AI and GPU-accelerated workloads; our solutions have been tested and trusted by leading AI companies....
Decrease PyTorch Model Load Times with X-CloudTensorizer
X-CLoud Tensorizer: In Summary X-Cloud Tensorizer is a tool for fast PyTorch module, model, and tensor serialization and deserialization, making it possible to load models extremely quickly from HTTP/HTTPS and S3 endpoints. It also speeds up loading from network and local disk volumes. With faster model loading times for LLMs and reduces GPU memory utilization,...
How the MosaicML Platform Makes Large-Scale Model Training More Accessible
By giving users access to NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs deployed on X-Cloud, Mosaic ML puts the highest-performing NVIDIA GPUs within reach for more ML practitioners. It’s an uphill battle for small- and medium-sized companies looking to train a machine learning (ML) model or serve inference. The process and infrastructure requirements are more expensive...
How to Get Started with Platform Engineering, Featuring Zeet [Webinar]
See how AI and machine learning companies are using Internal Developer Platforms like Platform Engineering to self-serve their own infrastructure. What is platform engineering? Platform engineering is the discipline of designing and building Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs), toolchains, and workflows that enable self-service capabilities for software engineering organizations. Think you don’t have an Internal...
Introducing SUNK: A Slurm on Kubernetes Implementation for HPC and Large Scale AI
SUNK, an implementation of Slurm on Kubernetes, will be made open-source in early 2024. Learn how it works. In the HPC and AI world, there are two kings: Slurm for scheduling and orchestrating massively parallel jobs and Kubernetes for running production applications like Inference. However, many companies face making a choice between them or...
X-Cloud Announces NovelAI as Among the First to Have NVIDIA HGX H100 GPUs Online
Roseland, N.J. — March 21, 2023 — X-Cloud, a specialized cloud provider built for large-scale GPU-accelerated workloads, today announced general availability of instances of NVIDIA HGX H100 GPUs online. This is X-Cloud’s second NVIDIA H100 offering, following the company’s launch of H100 PCIe GPU instances in January. Anlatan, developers of NovelAI, will be among the first to...
GPU Cloud Rendering: 5 Tips to Keep VFX Studio Production on Track and on Budget
VFX studios are leveraging NVIDIA GPU cloud rendering to help meet tight timelines and budgets with on-demand burst compute and unlimited virtual workstations. There are countless reasons why your timeline is off track. The team wasn’t able to capture content the day they expected to. The director changes their mind about what type of shots...
Looking Ahead to 2024: How X-Cloud Is Using NVIDIA GPUs to Advance the New Era of AI and Machine Learning
X-Cloud raised $100M in strategic funding in December 2022 to help build the infrastructure companies need for the future of AI. It’s exciting to see how moments this year helped lay the groundwork for what’s promising to be an eventful, fast-moving future for AI. This month, we announced that Magnetar has backed X-Cloud with a...





