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According to a post on X by @Memoirs, a team including Junchen Jiang and Haryadi S. Gunawi is tackling the wear that heavy KV-cache offloading puts on flash storage. The work, called Gandalf, aims to stretch flash-storage lifetime so long-context LLM serving can stay affordable without burning through SSDs. The post links to an arXiv paper, 2610.30791, for details.
According to a post on X by @Memoirs, a team including Junchen Jiang and Haryadi S. Gunawi is tackling the wear that heavy KV-cache offloading puts on flash storage. The work, called Gandalf, aims to stretch flash-storage lifetime so long-context LLM serving can stay affordable without burning through SSDs. The post links to an arXiv paper, 2610.30791, for details.
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A team including Junchen Jiang and Haryadi S. Gunawi tackles the wear that heavy KV-cache offloading puts on flash storage, so long-context serving can stay cheap without burning through SSDs. Relevant for anyone running large inference fleets. Also: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.30791 Original post....
Operators running large inference fleets are the most directly affected, since offloading KV-cache to flash is a cost and hardware-lifetime question for them. If the approach works as described, it could reduce how quickly SSDs wear out during long-context serving. Readers should check the linked paper for the actual method and any measured results, which the post does not detail.
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