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Cliff Weitzman builds private GPU clusters and buys portable hardware to bypass traditional research timelines. Renting cloud hardware for a year costs 1.5 times the price of buying it outright.
Machines running a trillion operations per second across multiple GPUs solve complex problems beyond human capacity.
“You have this magical machine that can run a trillion operations per second on as many GPUs as you want and it can solve problems that we can't.”
From How Cliff Weitzman Uses GPU Clusters to Treat Rare Diseases
Technology previously solved the dyslexia and ADHD challenges Cliff Weitzman experienced.
“Technology solved my dyslexia and it solved my ADHD…”
From How Cliff Weitzman Uses GPU Clusters to Treat Rare Diseases
Renting cloud hardware for a single year costs 1.5 times the total purchase price. Buying silicon outright provides long-term usage for workloads and reduces overall expenses.
“So, it's 1.5x the cost of owning the hardware to rent the hardware for a year…”
From Why Speechify Buys NVIDIA GPUs Instead of Renting Cloud Compute
A $5,000 pocket-sized device sequences full genomes from hair or saliva. Organizing meetups with patient groups allows Cliff Weitzman to collect biological data outside traditional clinical trials.
“I'm buying now basically a $5,000 device you can fit in your pocket, but if you put a piece of hair or saliva or blood into it, it can sequence your entire genome. And so I'm organizing meetups with all the people who have this disease to sequence all of their genomes.”
From How Cliff Weitzman Uses GPU Clusters to Treat Rare Diseases
Cliff Weitzman inputs biological data into AlphaFold to model problematic proteins. The software designs specific molecules to bind to these proteins and switch them on or off.
“I can then take all the conclusions that I have about it and put it into AlphaFold from Isomorphic and I can design not just the protein that is creating these issues, but I can design the molecule that needs to bind to that protein to either turn it on or off…”
From How Cliff Weitzman Uses GPU Clusters to Treat Rare Diseases
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