The Definitive Guide toAI Data Centers
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Prefill

The compute-heavy phase that processes an inference prompt and builds its KV cache before generation begins.

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xPyDruntime-reconfigurable disaggregation: x prefill workers feeding y decode workers, re-balanced liveas of 2026 · register ↗

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