AI case study

Stanford UniversityResearch computing

Large AI training jobs meant fighting for preemptible slots or leaving campus. Marlowe gave any lab guaranteed multi-node access on demand.

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Key results

Fitting Speed Increase
90x+
Annual GPU Hours
18M+
Model Parameters Used
<14%

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The story

Context

A research university whose seven schools span AI, materials science, neuroscience, medical imaging, and climate modeling, with an existing shared HPC cluster serving 8,000+ researchers and 1,000+ GPUs.

Challenge

The existing cluster was a general shared environment, not optimized for large-scale multi-node GPU training. Researchers scaling compute-intensive...

Solution
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Scope & timeline

  • 500+ active research accounts on Marlowe

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The company

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Stanford University

datascience.stanford.edu

Private research university offering higher education and academic research.

IndustryEducation & Training
LocationStanford, CA, USA
Employees10K-50K
Founded1885

The implementation partner

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Mark III Systems

markiiisys.com
Role in this case study

Supported the deployment and ongoing integration of Marlowe into Stanford's compute ecosystem.

IndustryTechnology
LocationHouston, TX, USA
Employees51-250
Founded1995

The vendor

NVIDIA is a technology company that specializes in semiconductors, graphics processing units, and artificial intelligence for applications in data centers, gaming, and more.

IndustryTechnology
LocationSanta Clara, California, United States
Employees10K-50K
Founded1993

Use case

Stanford University's Research computing is part of this use case:

AI Infrastructure
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