Servers
Why LLM Latency Spikes When the KV Cache Fills Up
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The shared LLM server has not crashed. GPU utilization remains high, requests are still finishing, and the monitoring dashboard shows no conventional out-of-memory failure.
Servers
Speculative Decoding Explained: How LLMs Generate More Than One Token per Expensive Step
073
A large language model can have a powerful GPU almost to itself and still produce a single conversation one token at a time. The accelerator finishes one
Servers
Continuous Batching Explained: How LLM Servers Keep a GPU Busy
168
Four people are talking to the same local LLM. One asks a short question and gets an answer in seconds. Another requests a long explanation.
Inference
How Long Prompts Disrupt Shared LLM Inference
083
Three people are using the same local AI server. Two answers are already streaming at a comfortable pace. Then a third user pastes a long document and presses Send.
Inference
When Does a Second GPU Actually Help LLM Inference?
095
There is an appealingly simple upgrade path for a busy local AI server: install another GPU. Twice the accelerators should mean something close to twice
Inference
How Many Users Can One GPU Actually Serve?
199
A local AI server can feel almost instantaneous when one person is using it. Add a second conversation and it may still feel fine. Add several people with
Inference
Your LLM Benchmark May Be Measuring the Wrong Thing
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A local LLM produces 100 tokens per second. On paper, that sounds fast. Then a real user sends a long prompt and waits several seconds before anything