Brian Model

Founder at Thunder Compute (YC S24) | Fan of C++ | Previously HFT @ Citadel Securities

[Brian Model @brain_model]

I hate c++ build systems with a passion, but building deps from source gives me some peace of mind during all these supply chain attacks

[Brian Model @brain_model]

Coding agents finally give hermetic build systems a real business use case

[Weave Robotics @weaverobotics]

People want a robot that can fold their laundry, and we’re going to give it to them

[Brian Model @brain_model]

To add to your nightly reading list: https://t.co/sm2K0H2mji

[Brian Model @brain_model]

Everyone's out here talking about GPT-5 but no one's talking about Nvidia dropping cuda 13

[Brian Model @brain_model]

@tenderizzation cudaStreamSynchronize is lava

[Brian Model @brain_model]

Probably the coolest implementation of a circular buffer I've ever seen:
https://t.co/Al2SAmKPnN

Essentially they mmap 2 contiguous regions of virtual memory to alias the same data. Then they can call memcpy 1 time and have the hardware automatically handle the wraparound logic.

[Brian Model @brain_model]

real

[Brian Model @brain_model]

"How to update cuda drivers"

[Brian Model @brain_model]

"Small" change to optimize serialization got a little out of hand😮‍💨

[Brian Model @brain_model]

Why is it that PyYAML is always an issue with trying to install python requirements? Who decided they needed to use c extensions for a yaml parser??

[Carl Peterson @carlpeterson]

We're seeing a massive spike in demand at @ThunderCompute. New record highs every hour.

Please bear with us for any service interruptions, our team is working hard to keep everything online!!

[Brian Model @brain_model]

@nicbarkeragain Imagine trying to pip install a requirements.txt on a project that hasn’t been updated in a year. Honestly that’s enough of a reason not to write anything major in python.

[Brian Model @brain_model]

@carlpeterson @OpenAI @ThunderCompute efficientiy with Thunder Compute 📈

[Brian Model @brain_model]

Not shown: me pacing around the office trying to understand cusolver docs

[Thunder Compute @ThunderCompute]

Wednesday vibes

[Brian Model @brain_model]

@olson_dan Cargo alone is enough of a reason to learn rust. Honestly made me kinda sad going back to building with Conan + bazel

[Thunder Compute @ThunderCompute]

We’ve been absolutely cheffing and have a ton of updates for you:

Performance
- Improved performance for large models: 4-6x faster data transfers
- ~75% faster initial GPU connection
- Expanded compatibility with data science and ML workloads
- MUCH faster template launch times

Console
- Added the ability to SSH in-browser
- You can now launch templates directly in-browser without code!!
- Improved instance management: bulk actions, modify instances, loading states
- Clearer chart data display and visibility into billing

VSCode extension
- Some users mentioned a security warning when installing the extension, we’re working with our Microsoft contacts to resolve this.
- Snappier performance, bug fixes, UI improvements

As always your feedback is incredibly helpful as we continue to improve. Onwards and upwards!!

[Carl Peterson @carlpeterson]

I'll be repping @ThunderCompute at @NVIDIAGTC. If you're looking for the cheapest GPUs, DM me.

[Carl Peterson @carlpeterson]

Apple intelligence sucks. Can't even run nvidia-smi.

Apple uses weak, small LLMs.

Big LLMs are better.

Thankfully, I got 80GB of VRAM on my iPhone with @ThunderCompute

nvidia-smi ✅

[Brian Model @brain_model]

Just tried opening https://t.co/6ao3eXaEvq on my phone @nvidia