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The resale value of a refurbished NVIDIA H100 GPU after three years was approximately 84% of its original price, based on data from late 2023.
Silicon Data, a company backed by Don Wilson of DRW, has announced a partnership with the CME Group to launch GPU futures.
Silicon Data plans to launch GPU futures and options on the CME in the next couple of months, pending SEC approval.
A study by Silicon Data and Jefferson Lab published at the GPGPU conference found a 38% performance variance among identical NVIDIA A100 40GB GPUs.
The resale value of a refurbished NVIDIA H100 GPU after two years was approximately 85% of its original price, based on data from late 2023.
The same model of GPU chip located at different data centers may not have equal performance.
Compute Exchange operates as a spot marketplace for GPU procurement, offering reserve contracts, forward contracts, and refurbished contracts.
The on-demand price for GPU compute can fluctuate from $3 to $9 depending on shifts in the supply and demand curve.
Compute Exchange independently verifies GPU performance on metrics like flops, memory bandwidth, and tokens before delivering them to customers.
Silicon Data's platform ingests over 150,000 traded prices daily from over 100 data sources to calculate its GPU indices.
The daily price volatility for the NVIDIA A100 and H100 indices is between 20% and 30%.
Silicon Data has aggregated 8 million pricing points from approximately 200 global data sources for its compute indices.