armada mvp 1

ARMADAPOWER YOUR OWN FLEET

James Lee Alex LiNick Lamping

BUYER PERSONA

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▸ Harrison is a computer science student here at the University of Michigan. He and a few other Graduate students are working on an MDP project with Acxiom. Their goal is to develop a deep learning algorithm, which requires the use of parallel computing. This means that he and his group need access to a large network of computers that individually don’t need to be particularly powerful. Because they are students and are still in the development stage, they don’t particularly care for the reliability of the network. Because they have limited funding, Harrison cannot resort to using AWS because of budget constraints. They have tried to explore other options, but there are none available to their knowledge that meet their budget needs. If he and his group fail to accomplish the project, their internship offers for Acxiom will be at risk.

HARRISON - T/S/F/D

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Think - Need other options aside from AWS - Too expensive

See - He and his team cannot find a solution - No other solution

Feel- Extreme pressure - Worried - Wants to quit

Do - Cannot do anything - Try to ask for a higher budget

SELLER PERSONA

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▸ Joey is another computer science student at the University of Michigan. Before he joined school, he initially thought that he would have time to play games and purchased a powerful custom-built computer. However, given that he is an EECS student who is busy with school, the desktop computer is usually left idle. Joey realizes that his investment is going to waste. Joey decided to venture into the idea of Bitcoin mining, but realized that he didn’t have the CPU power to do so. Joey needs a way to recover his investment.

JOEY - T/S/F/D

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Think - He has a valuable resource and it’s going to waste

See - Computer is sitting idle at home

Feel - Feels guilty for not using his computer - Needs to do something about it

Do - Attempted Bitcoin mining only to fail

USE CASE: HARRISON AND SELLER

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Harrison (Buyer) Joey (Seller)

AS A STUDENT, I WANT TO ACCESS CHEAP COMPUTING RESOURCES SO THAT I CAN RESEARCH DEEP LEARNING

AS A COMPUTER OWNER, I WANT TO RENT MY COMPUTING RESOURCES OUT SO THAT I CAN EARN EASY MONEY

JOEY’S STORY

MVP WALKTHROUGH: STEP 1

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▸ Joey creates account w/ student ID

▸ Logs in

▸ Downloads the client

ACCOUNT CREATION

CREATE LISTING

FIND LISTING

DOWNLOAD APP

HOST CPU

SSH INTO CPU


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▸ Joey runs the app on his computer

ACCOUNT CREATION

CREATE LISTING

FIND LISTING

DOWNLOAD APP

HOST CPU

SSH INTO CPU


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▸ Joey creates a listing

ACCOUNT CREATION

CREATE LISTING

FIND LISTING

DOWNLOAD APP

HOST CPU

SSH INTO CPU

HARRISON’S STORY


Slide 3b

▸ Create Account w/ Student ID & Login

ACCOUNT CREATION

CREATE LISTING

FIND LISTING

DOWNLOAD APP

HOST CPU

SSH INTO CPU


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▸ Harrison finds Joey’s Listing and makes a purchase

ACCOUNT CREATION

CREATE LISTING

FIND LISTING

DOWNLOAD APP

HOST CPU

SSH INTO CPU


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▸ Harrison SSHs into Rented Machine

ACCOUNT CREATION

CREATE LISTING

FIND LISTING

DOWNLOAD APP

HOST CPU

SSH INTO CPU

HYPOTHESIS:

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▸ If Armada provides a cheaper option for renting computing resources, users would be willing to migrate over from utilizing commercialized computing resources such as AWS.

WHAT TO LEARN:

▸ Do the pros out weigh the cons?

▸ Do the reputations of commercialized computing resources eclipse Armada’s offerings?

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