NVIDIA Dynamo Introduces Shadow Engine Recovery for Fast LLM Restarts
NVIDIA announced shadow engine recovery, a preview feature in NVIDIA Dynamo, to restore LLM inference capacity in seconds after an engine process failure. It avoids cold restarts that require loading weights into HBM, compiling kernels, and capturing CUDA graphs, which can take minutes for large models.
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