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INSIDE MODAL NOTEBOOKS: HOW WE BUILT A CLOUD GPU NOTEBOOK THAT BOOTS IN SECONDS

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Modal Notebooks are a cloud-based Jupyter notebook environment that offers fast GPU access and real-time collaboration. Engineering-wise, the notebooks use sandboxes for safe kernel execution, lazy-load container images for quick startup, and VolumeFS for persistent data storage.