Pavel Bushuyeu is a PhD student in the computer science department at the University of Hawaii, where he studies how cancer affects people of Pacific Island descent. One of a growing number of academics using AI to accelerate their research, Bushuyeu encountered a familiar obstacle: He must jostle with others on campus to get access to the school’s limited compute resources, while privacy and cost constraints make it difficult to use outside pay-by-the-hour compute services. Fortunately, he found a novel solution.
Earlier this year, Bushuyeu discovered a startup called B3 Labs that offers dedicated GPU hardware on a rent-to-own basis under the brand B3IQ. Under the company’s program, customers can pay 30% down on a variety of machines, including a frontier level Nvidia H200 rig that starts at $54,516, and spread out remaining payments over five years.
