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Short definitions of the terms used across on-demand compute.

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    Design partner

    One of a small number of teams with heavy, bursty AI jobs who would work with the E31 Network program at the engineering level before it opens. Intake is not yet open.

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    Output

    What a job returns to the team that submitted it: a trained model, inference results, processed files, or a report. The fourth thing a job declares and the reason it was run.

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    Real-time workload

    Compute work that must answer at the moment it is asked: robot control, live perception, safety functions, interactive tools. None of it belongs on E31 Network.

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    Release

    The last step in the life of a job: the compute held for the job returns to the shared pool and the meter stops. After release, nothing is owned and nothing sits idle.

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    Meter

    The running count of hours for which compute is held for a job. It starts when compute is held, stops when the job finishes, and is the only thing a team pays for.

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    Queue

    Where a submitted job waits when the compute it asked for is not yet free. The meter does not run while a job is queued, and a job that can wait is a job suited to the network.

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    Asynchronous workload

    Compute work whose result is not needed at the moment it is requested. The requester submits it, moves on, and collects the output later.

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    Batch workload

    A body of compute work submitted as a whole, run without anyone interacting with it, and finished with a result at the end. The natural fit for rented compute.

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    Job

    The unit of work on E31 Network: a self-contained piece of compute work that declares its work, data, request, and output, runs unattended, and returns a result.

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    On-demand compute

    GPU compute rented for the duration of one job and released when the job finishes, instead of owned, leased for a term, or left running between uses.

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