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279 engineering articles about Kubernetes from NVIDIA's engineering team

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Modern AI platforms are no longer a single application behind one login screen. A user may start in a central portal, open a governed dataset…
Elizabeth Goodman
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When an LLM engine process fails, the standard recovery path involves a cold restart. This requires loading weights into HBM from storage, compiling kernels…
Michelle Horton
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Traditional cloud infrastructure was designed for predictable, general-purpose workloads and standard interfaces. Agentic AI factories connect diverse users…
Michelle Horton
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Running a dedicated Kubernetes cluster per team often results in more isolation than an organization requires. While one cluster can be successfully shared…
Tanya Lenz
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Every byte moved has a cost. As model checkpoints grow to hundreds of gigabytes or even a terabyte, that cost adds up quickly. To make things even worse…
Elizabeth Goodman
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AI agents have changed a lot in the last two years. The first could only answer one question at a time. Then came multi-turn chat, where the model could keep…
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AI is now essential infrastructure, powered by AI factories that generate intelligence in the form of tokens. As demand grows, these factories must scale faster…
Warren Barkley
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Modern LLM serving is hard to tune because each deployment is a stack of interacting choices: model backend, tensor-parallel shape, prefill/decode split…
Yongming Ding
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As AI models grow in complexity and regulatory scrutiny intensifies under frameworks including California’s AB-2013 and the EU AI Act, software teams face a…
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In production inference deployments, demand fluctuates over time, requiring inference replicas to scale elastically. However, cold-starting inference workloads…
Schwinn Saereesitthipitak
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Large language models (LLMs) are revolutionizing the financial trading landscape by enabling sophisticated analysis of vast amounts of unstructured data to…
Dan Blanaru
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Maximizing the value of AI infrastructure demands deep visibility into GPU utilization. Yet many platform teams running AI workloads on Kubernetes operate with…
Guy Saltoun
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Telcos around the world are building sovereign AI factories based on the NVIDIA Cloud Partner (NCP) reference architecture, giving governments, enterprises…
Waleed Badr
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Agent harnesses like Claude Code, Codex, and LangChain Deep Agents are excellent orchestrators. They manage sessions, chain tools, execute code…
William Markito Oliveira
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Slurm is an open source cluster management and job scheduling system for Linux. It manages job scheduling for over 65% of TOP500 systems.
Anton Polyakov
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Physical AI—AI systems that perceive, reason, and act in physically grounded simulated environments—is changing how teams design and validate robots and…
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The NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 and NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 systems, featuring NVIDIA Blackwell architecture, are rack-scale supercomputers. They’re designed with 18 tightly…
Ryan Prout
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In today’s AI factory environment, performance is not theoretical. It is economic, competitive, and existential. A 1% drop in usable GPU time can mean millions…
Pradyumna Desale
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Delivering high-fidelity VR and AR experiences to enterprise users has typically required native application development, custom device management…
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In production Kubernetes environments, the difference between model requirements and GPU size creates inefficiencies. Lightweight automatic speech recognition…
Sagar Desai
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AI is moving from experimentation to production. However, most data enterprises need exists outside the public cloud. This includes sensitive information like…
Hema Bontha
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As large language model (LLM) inference workloads grow in complexity, a single monolithic serving process starts to hit its limits. Prefill and decode stages…
Anish Maddipoti
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Reasoning models are growing rapidly in size and are increasingly being integrated into agentic AI workflows that interact with other models and external tools.
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Every AI cluster running on Kubernetes requires a full software stack that works together, from low-level driver and kernel settings to high-level operator and…
Mark Chmarny
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CUDA 13.2 arrives with a major update: NVIDIA CUDA Tile is now supported on devices of compute capability 8.X architectures (NVIDIA Ampere and NVIDIA Ada)…
Jonathan Bentz
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Deploying and optimizing large language models (LLMs) for high-performance, cost-effective serving can be an overwhelming engineering problem.
Tianhao Xu
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Alibaba has introduced the new open source Qwen3.5 series built for native multimodal agents. The first model in this series is a ~400B parameter native vision…
Anu Srivastava
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Organizations deploying LLMs are challenged by inference workloads with different resource requirements. A small embedding model might use only a few gigabytes…
Shwetha Krishnamurthy
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The article discusses how NVIDIA Run:ai enhances AI workload performance through dynamic GPU fractioning, enabling efficient resource allocation and high throughput for large language models (LLMs).
Boskey Savla
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The article discusses the introduction of time-based fairshare in NVIDIA Run:ai v2.
Ekin Karabulut
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The article discusses how to build and orchestrate end-to-end synthetic data generation (SDG) workflows using NVIDIA Isaac Sim and NVIDIA OSMO.
Asawaree Bhide
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The article discusses the NVIDIA Rubin platform, which introduces six new chips designed to create a powerful AI supercomputer.
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This article discusses the implementation of horizontal autoscaling for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) components on Kubernetes, focusing on NVIDIA's microservices architecture.
Juana Nakfour
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The article discusses NVSentinel, an open-source system designed to automate the monitoring and health management of Kubernetes AI clusters, particularly those utilizing NVIDIA GPUs.
Lalit Adithya
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The article discusses the use of AI Model Distillation to create efficient financial data workflows, focusing on the optimization of large language models (LLMs) for applications in quantitative fi...
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The article discusses the deployment of secure, data-driven AI agents using NVIDIA's AI-Q Research Assistant and Enterprise RAG Blueprints on AWS.
Abdullahi Olaoye
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The article discusses the NVIDIA Collective Communications Library (NCCL) and its capabilities for building scalable and fault-tolerant applications.
Luke Robison
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The article discusses the introduction of a new Kubernetes abstraction called ComputeDomains, designed to facilitate secure GPU-to-GPU memory operations across node boundaries in multi-node NVLink ...
Kevin Klues
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The article discusses NVIDIA Grove, a Kubernetes API designed to streamline complex AI inference workloads by managing multicomponent systems.
Sanjay Chatterjee
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This article discusses the integration of NVIDIA AI Blueprints for enhancing video analytics through the combination of Video Search and Summarization (VSS) and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG).
Ilyas Bankole-Hameed
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The article discusses how NVIDIA Run:ai enhances AI infrastructure management on Microsoft Azure by optimizing GPU utilization and simplifying workload orchestration.
Julie Adrounie
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The article discusses the challenges and solutions for scaling large Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models using Wide Expert Parallelism on NVIDIA's NVL72 rack-scale systems.
Eduardo Alvarez
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The article discusses memory management on hardware-coherent platforms, specifically focusing on the differences between Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) and Coherent Driver-based Memory Management...
Kumar Sankaran
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The article discusses the implementation of NVIDIA NV-Tesseract and NVIDIA NIM for smarter anomaly detection in semiconductor manufacturing.
Aditi Gautam
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The article discusses the integration of the NVIDIA KAI Scheduler with Ray, enabling advanced scheduling features like gang scheduling, workload prioritization, and autoscaling in Ray clusters.
Ekin Karabulut
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The article discusses the integration of NVIDIA Run:ai v2. 23 with NVIDIA Dynamo to address the challenges of large language model (LLM) inference across distributed environments.
Ekin Karabulut
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The article discusses the deployment of scalable AI inference using NVIDIA NIM Operator 3. 0. 0, highlighting its capabilities in managing AI inference pipelines across Kubernetes environments.
Meenakshi Kaushik
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The article discusses how NVIDIA's hardware innovations, particularly the Blackwell architecture and NVFP4 precision, along with their open source contributions, are driving advancements in AI.
George Chellapa
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The article discusses NVIDIA Omniverse Kit App Streaming, a solution for deploying and streaming 3D applications built with NVIDIA's SDKs directly to browsers.
Ashley Goldstein
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Dynamo 0. 4 introduces significant enhancements for deploying large language models (LLMs) with a focus on performance, observability, and autoscaling based on service-level objectives (SLO).
Amr Elmeleegy
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