DeepSeek Elastic Compute Paper Reveals 160-Node Units Serving 3M Sandboxes Daily
zephyr_z9 · x · 2026-09-23
A buried DeepSeek paper, "DeepSeek Elastic Compute," reveals the scale of its production infrastructure: a single production-scale DSec unit spans around 160 nodes and serves about 3 million sandboxes per day, supporting over 380,000 concurrent sandboxes and sustaining more than 5,000 sandbox creations per second in production.
The numbers offer a rare glimpse into the real backend execution stack behind DeepSeek's coding and agent workloads.
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