May 14, 2026
Conferences across Europe and USA in 2026 Meet the Spare Cores team at the upcoming conferences in Hungary, the UK, Poland, the USA, and Germany!
May 7, 2026
Spare Cores Awarded EIC Seal of Excellence Our EIC Pre-Accelerator proposal was recognised as a high-quality project by an international panel of experts.
Apr 23, 2026
Resource Tracker in Rust: Single-Binary Monitoring We ported the Resource Tracker to Rust: a ~2 MB binary that tracks CPU, memory, GPU usage, and more.
Apr 17, 2026
A 3-Day Hackathon for Augmented Workloads OVHcloud, Crayon/SoftwareOne, and Spare Cores joint effort to profile compound benchmark scores together.
Jan 26, 2026
Modern Memory Bandwidth Benchmarks We open-sourced sc-membench, a modern and flexible memory bandwidth and latency benchmarking tool.
Jan 15, 2026
Spare Cores Closes Pre-Seed Funding Round Pre-seed investment led by BNL and FPI (local incubators) to grow the dev team and ship a SaaS product.
Nov 14, 2025
What We Have Been Up to in the Past Months New vendors, LLM benchmarks, the Resource Tracker family, conference travels, and long-term sustainability.
Aug 11, 2025
Native support for the Resource Tracker in R Track the CPU, memory, GPU, disk and network utilization of your R scripts and get cloud server recommendations!
Jun 23, 2025
Spare Cores at the useR! and PyData events Upcoming Spare Cores conference talks at North Carolina, Berlin, and Amsterdam in August/September.
May 5, 2025
LLM Inference Speed Benchmarks We measured the prompt processing and text generation speed of different LLMs on 2000+ cloud servers.
Apr 17, 2025
Kubernetes and Machine Learning conferences Meet the Spare Cores team live at the KCD Budapest and Budapest Data+ML Forum events in the coming weeks!
Apr 2, 2025
Optimizing Resource Usage of Batch Jobs Seamlessly track the resource usage of e.g. Metaflow steps and find the best value servers for any workload!
Mar 25, 2025
Search and Order Servers for Any Workload Effortlessly filter and rank servers by benchmark score or per dollar value for ultimate performance and savings!
Feb 6, 2025
Welcome 67 new server types from UpCloud! Excited to share the detailed hardware specs and performance data on UpCloud's all predefined server types.
Nov 27, 2024
Fireside chat at Architecture Weekly Spare Cores was invited for an hour-long interview at the Architecture Weekly channel. Watch it now!
Nov 25, 2024
Spare Cores at SFSCon 2024 in Bolzano Spare Cores presented a talk and run a booth at SFSCon. Slides, video recording & hex stickers are available :)
Nov 18, 2024
Embed Spare Cores charts in your website! Now it's easy to embed dynamic charts and tables on server details or multiple server comparisons via Iframes.
Nov 2, 2024
Say hi in person and grab a Spare Cores sticker! We look forward to meeting you in Bolzano (Nov 8-9), Paris (Dec 3-4), or Las Vegas (Dec 2-6)!
Oct 26, 2024
Spare Cores featured by The Pragmatic Engineer Gergely Orosz interviewed us and shared our story in The Pulse and on his blog to 750k subscribers.
Oct 24, 2024
vCPUs in the Real World: Do They Truly Scale? Analyzing empirical data to see if it is enough to choose a cloud instance based solely on the number of vCPUs?
Oct 20, 2024
NGI Search Beneficiary Interview Spare Cores was featured in the NGI Search Interview series and NGI Innovators Expo directory.
Aug 23, 2024
New Benchmarks: Static Web Server Workloads Measuring the performance of a static HTTP server being bombarded with requests for 1 to 512 kb files.
Jul 29, 2024
Exploring the 2024 Cloud Use Cases Landscape Our latest survey on preferred cloud compute features, deployment methods, and related tooling.
Jul 16, 2024
The EU Must Keep Funding Open Source! The Next Generation Internet programs are at risk! Raising awareness to keep NGI funded.
Jul 15, 2024
Spare Cores Joins NVIDIA Inception The program benefits boost and extend our performance benchmarking efforts, especially for AI/ML tools with GPUs.
Jul 11, 2024
A closer look at Hetzner Cloud's new CX servers Cheaper and better performance compared to the previous generation of shared Intel® Xeon® vCPU plans?
Jun 11, 2024
Spare Cores at the Berlin Buzzwords 2024 conf Debuted Spare Cores at a major in-person conference for the first time! Slides and video recording available.
May 28, 2024
Unlocking Cloud Compute Performance All benchmarks are wrong, but some are useful... especially when numerous scenarios and methods are provided.
Apr 24, 2024
Meet the Spare Cores team live at conferences We are excited to publicly announce the Spare Cores project to the dev community at three events in June/July.
Apr 16, 2024
Spot server termination rate per availability zones AWS publicizes the expected termination rate of the spot instances per region, but what about AZs?
Mar 19, 2024
67% cost savings at adtech company Case Study: reducing monthly cloud expenses by $3k via migrating from AWS Batch to self-managed instances.
Feb 14, 2024
When to use resource ids, or prefer the names? The use of resource ids and names differs by vendor ... and might be even the same. Integer? String? None?
Jan 18, 2024
Project takeoff: NGI Search grant award Spare Cores was selected as a winner project out of 94 applications: awarded 150k EUR for open-source work.