A cloud provider can burn in hardware by testing it and returning faulty GPUs or nodes for replacement before customers receive them, shielding customers from those failures.

“Um so when you get a cluster um a good cloud, what”

“it does is it tries to”

“tries to kill all the GPUs, um before they ever get in the hands of the customer. Um and then um the GPUs that are broken or the nodes that are broken, um you get R_M_A_d. You”

“return it, yeah. you return it and you get a new one and there's a lead time to that, but whatever, you'll get”

“you'll get some back. Um and then the customer never has to experience this. Um the um thing I'm referring to is that”