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Does the reported 56-times result predict a production workload?

No. It is a joint vendor result using a 120-billion-parameter model and 130,000-token prompts under a stated test setup. Real performance depends on cache hit rate, storage and network latency, concurrency, prompt repetition, and the baseline architecture.

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A Bigger AI Cache Can Save GPU Time—If the Network and Reuse Rate Cooperate

Supermicro, IBM and NVIDIA proposed persistent KV-cache storage for long prompts. Their headline speedup is a vendor test, not a universal inference result.

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