Alan Butler

Ex… Sun / Dell / Red Hat / Lambda… @Brev.dev and still having a blast :)

[Alan Butler @atb530]

If you are in the SF Bay Area, and interested in a fast growing fun company in the AI Infrastructure space, go look into our our open roles @sfcompute

[evan conrad @evanjconrad]

San Francisco Compute is growing rapidly & we're hiring across the board for our systems engineering, data center development, & (product & brand) design teams.

We're the local supercomputing company. We sell people GPU clusters on contracts they can sublease.

SFC's goal is to reduce the financial risk one of the largest infrastructure build outs in history. To do that, we vertically integrated. That means we build data centers, the clusters in the data center, and a cloud platform that we built on top of the most order book of it's kind.

This lets you do cool stuff like "buy a 1 month contract 3 months out, but only if I can get it colocated, and only if the price is at a 25% discount to the current market price." You can walk in the door on Friday, buy a 3-year contract, and then walk out the door on Monday by selling the whole thing. In other words, we build the cloud for people who care about margins & their risk exposure.

We did that because SFC was originally "Junelark" (a teeny tiny 2-person AI lab), which bought too big of a GPU cluster & was forced to sublease it. The first year of the company was tremendously stressful because if we didn't sell the cluster, we'd go bankrupt. This forced us to become a very rough accidental cloud. We'd operate on top of other clouds, but ran out of folks who would give us access to key parts of the cluster (like BMC, UFM, & switch access) needed to offer a viable experience. To build something great, we vertically integrated down and down until we hit the dirt.

These days, I like to operate the company somewhat quietly. Our website's a single page (we may change this). We don't show up on VC market maps and we're not in the news much. I hope this doesn't deter you; SFC operates at very large scale & has been growing at an incredible pace. We're just very focused on standing up clusters & shipping features that help our customers.

Our team includes industry veterans, like the cofounder of Voltage Park, key folks from Tesla, Meta, Lambda, Redhat, Hut8, Canonical, & Sun.

We'd love for you to join us! My DMs are open, or you can reach me at evan at sf compute dot com.

[Alan Butler @atb530]

As we celebrate the freedom and independence of the United States 🇺🇸 including fireworks and loud bangs, let’s not forget those in Ukraine 🇺🇦 who have to listen to such noise and much worse every day for over a year now.
- peace and hope for all -
🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇩🇪 🇪🇺 🇺🇳

[Alan Butler @atb530]

@scottmcnealy Cute dog @scottmcnealy; not so sure of the other two in the photo lol ;)

[Alan Butler @atb530]

Great #aiml event held by Weights & Biases this past week in San Francisco. Always good to meet new & existing partners alike. Very fast moving space for the next generation of infrastructure ISV’s with https://t.co/jDlm9GNIf4.
#brevdev #nvidia #lambda #…https://t.co/SbrXuwSgR0

[Alan Butler @atb530]

I’ve attended all #dellworld to date, and yet this is one of the best. Great to meet new and existing customers, partners and colleagues.

https://t.co/jDlm9GNIf4 is fast forwarding in the right way! Massive multi-cloud business in #aiml and #devops to…https://t.co/KWaRK3MTEH

[Alan Butler @atb530]

Off to a fast start this week at Dell World. Looking forward to connecting with new and existing Customers and Partners alike. #delltechworld #al #ml #devops #cloud #dellapex https://t.co/z3bqLwsles

[Alan Butler @atb530]

Great event with Cloudflare (@marcboroditsky) & https://t.co/jDlm9GNIf4 (Nader Khalil) at the #rsac2023 event. Cloud Compute (both GPU & CPU) with built in security is more important than ever. #AI #ml #devops #cloud #enterprise https://t.co/Mo00vd13zf

[Alan Butler @atb530]

@scottmcnealy Great company with a great culture. No other company got >1k employees together a decade after the company was gone. Leadership in action….
Sun Reunion news  https://t.co/aPpAxuYSKC
Sun Reunion 2019
- https://t.co/YiaZGBguGo
Sun Reunion 2014
https://t.co/476zQuXROd

[Alan Butler @atb530]

Looking forward to meeting new & existing DOE (Dept of Energy) customers and partners alike in our Lambda booth with NVIDIA at NLIT early next week in Albuquerque, New Mexico
/ #deeplearning #aiml #gpu #nvidia #lambda https://t.co/F4nwkCxXd2

[Alan Butler @atb530]

Always fun to connect with our past (and ever present) Sun Microsystems community. Good times still @dudenelson :) https://t.co/K0bP8HOUxP

[Alan Butler @atb530]

Thank you @cheech416 and Trace3 for the time and access at your Evolve event. Excellent opportunity to meet with new and existing customers and partners alike. #Trace3Evolve; #Al/Ml; #deeplearning #ml https://t.co/yp8oZbApHt

[Alan Butler @atb530]

Imagine the ability to manage one’s AI/ML (Deep Learning) infrastructure with support for the stack at the same time, regardless if on-Prem with Lambda or Lambda’s GPU Cloud.
#cloud #ai #deeplearning #ml
Check it out… www.lambda https://t.co/jSz2gJd1gg https://t.co/bKpjEqm4pU

[Alan Butler @atb530]

It is time for Lambda's Customers and Partners alike to expand their AI/ML (Deep Learning) needs with our GPU Cloud. Message me or see https://t.co/RWMpvXn51T https://t.co/WZMr3v3Nd0

[Alan Butler @atb530]

@aka_pugs 2006 - Sadly the year Scott stepped down (and I resigned from Sun after 22 years)

[Alan Butler @atb530]

Over 2k customers already trust Lambda for their on-prem needs in #ALML #deeplearning... but did you know about Lambda GPU Cloud?

Come explore what Lambda can do for you with >3x savings over traditional Cloud providers - https://t.co/dNEpFV1NNL
#nvidi…https://t.co/BuL056qBAi

[Alan Butler @atb530]

Excellent event this at Dell Technologies World. Thank you to Dell Technologies and the many Lambda partners that we met with. Looking forward to our joint AI/ML traction over 2022 and beyond. #delltechworld #lambda #aiml #deeplearning

[Alan Butler @atb530]

Very cool look at Lambda's launch today of the the world's most powerful Deep Learning laptop. Designed from the ground up for Deep Learning.

#ai #ml #deeplearning NVIDIA / Intel Corporation / Razer Inc.
https://t.co/wUJ1oU14kc https://t.co/xyKH9lnoxr

[Alan Butler @atb530]

Excellent NVIDIA recognition for Lambda selected as "Solutions Integration Partner of the Year" for 2021, for the second consecutive year in a row! Check out Lambda for AI/ML solutions in Deep Learning. #ai #ml #deeplearning #gpu https://t.co/33jAVS78J0

[Alan Butler @atb530]

Because of Sun Microsystems Inc. - I have a home, family and and three lovely daughters. First 22 years at Sun in High Tech from the age of 18. Happy Sun 40th - 😎 - #530

Two Sun Reunion youtube links below (both are safe btw).
https://t.co/wF1o8Png9s
https://t.co/xoiTCatKnV

[Scott McNealy @scottmcnealy]

40 years ago 4 x 27 yr olds started Sun Microsystems. We were first to bundle TCP/IP on every system. Used email internally instead of paper memos. Ran production on ERP based on work editor called vi. My has the world changed. Thanks to all of the 235,000 employees + partners.

[Alan Butler @atb530]

@scottmcnealy @ShahinKhan Because of Sun Microsystems Inc. - I have a home, a family with three lovely daughters. My first 22 years at Sun. Happy Sun 40th - 😎 - #530
Now rocking it at our next start up in AI/ML Deep Learning - https://t.co/RWMpvXmxcl
https://t.co/wF1o8Png9s
https://t.co/xoiTCatKnV