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more inference servers deployable under a fixed power budget via priority-based oversubscription, in POLCA's simulation

~30%modeled

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ScopePOLCA simulation on Microsoft inference traces: 30% more servers within performance SLOs under its priority-based capping policy. Not a deployable allowance for another fleet.
As of2024-04
SourcePOLCA: Power Oversubscription in LLM Cloud Providers (Microsoft Research) · Abstract and §6.2: POLCA deploys 30% more inference servers while staying within performance SLOs
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