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What did the Supermicro, IBM, and NVIDIA solution announce?

The companies described a system combining Supermicro all-flash storage servers, IBM Storage Scale, NVIDIA Dynamo inference software, and Spectrum-X Ethernet to store and share persistent KV-cache data outside local GPU memory.

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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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