Summary
According to a post on X by @spheron, the company says a 128K-token system prompt takes 11.2 seconds to first token when every node reads it cold, compared with 1.5 seconds when nodes share that memory using LMCache. Spheron says LMCache shares the KV cache across vLLM nodes, with SGLang also supported and TensorRT-LLM coming. In the company's stated test, a 4x H100 cluster handling 200 concurrent requests with 80% prompt reuse rose from 1.4 requests per second cold to 21.3 with LMCache, which it describes as a 15.2x gain. These are the company's own claims as presented in the post.
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What happened
Spheron says a 128K-token system prompt takes 11.2 seconds to first token when every node reads it cold, versus 1.5 seconds if nodes share that memory with LMCache. It says LMCache shares the KV cache across vLLM nodes (SGLang works too, with TensorRT-LLM coming), and that a 4x H100 cluster at 200 concurrent...
Why it matters
Teams running LLM inference on multi-node GPU clusters with repeated long prompts could see lower latency and higher throughput if these results hold up. The main change described is that cached attention state is shared between nodes instead of each node reading the prompt cold. Readers should watch for independent benchmarks and fuller details on the test setup, since the figures come from the company itself.
Signal Intelligence
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Technical label WATCH
Public Interest 48
Category BIG MOVE
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