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Research and comparisons for GPU operators

Long-form notes distilled from GPUForge's deployment research — written for platform engineers and CTOs evaluating GPU orchestration, scheduling, and deployment surfaces.

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TCO

H100 vs H200 vs B200: annualized TCO of a DIY GPU cluster vs GPUForge

Annualized total cost of ownership per GPU generation for a DIY bare-metal H100/H200/B200 cluster — utilization assumptions, hidden costs (noisy-neighbor tickets, scheduler engineering, DCGM stack), and a framework for when DIY wins, when hybrid wins, and when GPUForge is the cheaper fleet.

2026-08-18 7 min read
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Inference Cache

KServe v0.15 + vLLM prefix caching + LMCache: closing the cache-aware-routing gap

Side-by-side comparison of KServe v0.15, vLLM with prefix caching, and LMCache as a production LLM serving stack — architecture, scaling granularity, GPU placement, routing fanout, cache-aware routing, and K8s fit. Includes a recommendation framework for teams running on top of GPUForge V1's Ray / vLLM baseline.

2026-08-10 6 min read
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Deployment

GKE vs EKS vs On-Prem: choosing a deployment surface for live GPU workloads

Side-by-side comparison of GKE, EKS, and on-prem across pricing tiers, GPU availability, quota lead times, SLURM+K8s fit, air-gapped fit, and egress — with a recommendation framework for GPU operators.

2026-08-02 6 min read
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Inference Routing

Ray Serve vs KServe: choosing an inference-routing plane for live model serving

Architecture, scaling granularity, GPU placement, router model, cache-aware routing, and K8s fit — with a recommendation framework for teams running production LLM and embedding serving.

2026-08-06 6 min read
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