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1cture costs—even for interrupt-tolerant workloads."},{t:"h5",x:"Solution: Transparent Checkpointing for Spot Instance Resilience"},{t:"p",x:"Transparent checkpointing captures the entire state of an AI job (model weights, optimizer state, memory buffers, runtime environment) without requiring code changes. When a spot instance is reclaimed:"},{t:"ul",x:["The AI job is paused and checkpointed","The job is automatically rescheduled on a new spot instance","The job resumes from the last checkpoint, with minimal loss"]},{t:"h5",x:"Key Features"},{t:"ul",x:["No app-level checkpoint logic required","Integrates with spot market interruption notices","Works across zones or regions","Fast, incremental, compressed checkpoint saves"]},{t:"p",x:"This makes spot pricing safe for stateful jobs, bringing cloud costs down dramatically without sacrificing performance or reliability."},{t:"h5",x:"Quantified Benefits"},{t:"table",head:["Metric","On-Demand Only","With Spot + Checkpointing"],rows:[["GPU Hour Cost (NVIDIA A100)","$2.50–$3.50","$0.35–$0.70"],["Training Job Duration (72h)","100% restart on fail","Resume from last checkpoint"],["Preemption Risk Impact","High","Near-zero with autosave"],["Annual Cost (100 jobs, 8 GPUs)","$2.1M+","$400K–$700K"],["Savings vs. On-Demand","–","65–80% cost reduction"]]},{t:"h5",x:"Example Calculation"},{t:"ul",x:["1 job = 72 hours on 8 A100s = 576 GPU hours","On-demand = 576 \xd7 $3 = $1,728/job","Spot with checkpointing = 576 \xd7 $0.65 = $374/job","For 100 jobs/year = $172,800 vs. $1,728,000","Savings: $1.55M per year"]},{t:"h5",x:"Application Scenarios"},{t:"h4",x:"1. Model Training"},{t:"p",x:"Checkpointing allows large-scale model training jobs to safely use spot instances:"}

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