Ismaeel Bashir
Founder of Expanse, Unlock wasted GPU capacity.
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Ismaeel Bashir is listed as a founder of Expanse. Expanse unlocks wasted GPU capacity. We recover idle compute through three capabilities: resource prediction (right-sizing job submissions before they reach the scheduler), optimisation suggestions (code and config changes researchers can apply themselves), and failure prediction (catching jobs that will fail before they consume hours of GPU time). We’re four engineers. We ran HPC and GPU training workloads at the largest quant funds and national supercomputing centres. We faced this problem first hand and the only fix was to over-provision and burn millions. Ismaeel built the first multimodal HPC resource predictor as research at EPCC (Edinburgh’s Parallel Computing Centre), which beat every published baseline. This is the tool we wish we had.
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1/ Auto-research is taking off.
1/ Auto-research is taking off. Inside xAI, Anthropic, OpenAI, DeepMind, Meta SI: frontier models are running their own training experiments. At Expanse, we benchmarked 8 frontier models to see how efficient they are at resource efficiency. TLDR: They all ended up
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Last week had been the “Optiver” Week for me. After being selected to participate in Optiver’s Ready Trader Go student trading global challenge on Monday, and after being given an offer to join Optiver’s Technology and Trading Insight Programme on Wednesday, last Friday, I had the opportunity to meet some of the team in person in the Careers Fair on “Tech & Data”, taking place in the Edinburgh University campus. I would never have imagined that the next day after that event, I would participate in Optiver’s “Hack The Burgh IX” Hackathon Challenge. I am excited to announce that after 24 hours of continuous research, coding, hard work, collaboration, and no sleep, my team and I (team-001) managed to win the contest by showcasing our programming skills in financial technology. We developed a market making auto-trader, using Python, that identifies arbitrage opportunities in the ESG stocks a
Last week had been the “Optiver” Week for me. After being selected to participate in Optiver’s Ready Trader Go student trading global challenge on Monday, and after being given an offer to join Optiver’s Technology and Trading Insight Programme on Wednesday, last Friday, I had...
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Early on, Jensen Huang was struggling to find a way to differentiate @nvidia Then it hits him: he sees the OpenGL manual in a Fry's Electronics, and buys three copies.
Early on, Jensen Huang was struggling to find a way to differentiate @nvidia Then it hits him: he sees the OpenGL manual in a Fry's Electronics, and buys three copies. Gives one to each engineer. what a goat. parallelising before GPUs existed :)
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Bro what? 😭 we don’t resell compute.
Bro what? 😭 we don’t resell compute. We do increase your effective GPU capacity tho (https://t.co/xhCFivuYnr) These AI news articles need some validation (seems to be scraped from today’s hacker news post on us and was very poorly copied and rewritten) Thanks for the promo tho
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Shoutout Expanse 😭 Gonna tell my grandkids @paulg was talking about us 🥀
Shoutout Expanse 😭 Gonna tell my grandkids @paulg was talking about us 🥀