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Building Always-On GPU Labs for Education Without Always-On Costs
2026/01/16

Building Always-On GPU Labs for Education Without Always-On Costs

A case study on how a regional education network pooled GPU resources to serve AI courses with predictable performance and 70% lower cost.

Customer Profile

A regional education network serving 12 universities and 40+ AI courses each semester. Courses included computer vision, diffusion models, and robotics simulation. The platform needed GPU resources for thousands of students, but each lab session was short and bursty.

The Business Problem

The network faced three concrete challenges:

  • Idle GPU resources: peak lab usage lasted 2–4 hours per day while the fleet sat idle the remaining 18–22 hours.
  • Warm-start expectations: instructors required “lab ready” environments in under 60 seconds to keep classes on schedule.
  • Budget predictability: semester budgets were fixed; unexpected cloud bills created enrollment caps.

Baseline metrics from two semesters:

MetricBaseline
Average GPU utilization18–22%
Lab start time (P95)140–180s
Peak concurrent student sessions1,200
GPU cost per semester100% (baseline)

TensorFusion Solution

TensorFusion implemented GPU pooling with session-aware scheduling:

  1. Shared GPU resource pool across campuses, segmented by course priority.
  2. Warm-cache preloading for the top 12 course images at class start times.
  3. Dynamic GPU slicing for light inference labs (e.g., image filtering), reserving full GPUs for heavy training sessions.
  4. Usage-aware autoscaling to release idle capacity outside class windows.

Implementation Highlights

  • Integrated the LMS schedule into the TensorFusion scheduler for predictable warm-up windows.
  • Enforced fairness policies to prevent single courses from monopolizing GPU resources.
  • Used a two-tier service: low-latency inference tier and batch training tier.

Results

After one semester of rollout:

MetricBeforeAfter
Average GPU utilization20%62%
Lab start time (P95)160s48s
Peak concurrent sessions1,2002,100
GPU cost per semester100%30%

Outcome: 70% cost reduction, 2.6x utilization, and higher student satisfaction.

“We finally stopped paying for ‘standing idle capacity.’ Our labs feel faster, and our budget feels safer.” — Director of Instructional Technology

Why This Works for Education

Education workloads are predictable but spiky. TensorFusion’s pooling matches time-based demand and course-level priority without forcing each class to own dedicated GPU resources.

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