Expanse
Unlock wasted GPU capacity.
About 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.
Company details
Funding
Total raised
$500K
Last stage
Seed
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Founders
Ismaeel Bashir
Built the first multimodal HPC resource predictor at EPCC (Edinburgh's Parallel Computing Centre), beating every published baseline. Previously at Morgan Stanley, QRT, and EPCC.
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Yafet Melake
Built the first GNN-based cluster graph network for predicting SLURM queue wait times at EPCC. Previously at G-Research. BSc AI & CS, University of Edinburgh.
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Eren Mendi
Eren is co-founder and CPO of Expanse. Built state-of-the-art decentralised foundation model training systems and performance models. Previously: prototyped emerging technologies in quantitative finance (G-Research). Studied Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh and Imperial College London.
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