What do you do with the spare 8 GPUs in a 64-card NVL72 setup? Keep them hot as spares
_xjdr · x · 2026-10-26
Asked what users of 64 NVL72 GPUs do with the last 8, veteran xjdr answers: they sit in the spare pool until a failure occurs, then get swapped in — a peek at spare-management practice in large GPU clusters.
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