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Re:RL Is Bottlenecked by Inference. Scale It Independently by efiop on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @10:34AM (#49183587)
what did gpu hours look like here? with 3 replicas for a 1.8x speedup, the cost tradeoff isn’t obvious.
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Re:RL Is Bottlenecked by Inference. Scale It Independently by efiop on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @10:38AM (#49183667)
ah, nevermind. 3 engines seem cheaper overall too: 7x661s vs 5x1200s of allocated H100 time per step. Nice.
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