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What causes GPU cold starts in serverless environments?

GPU cold starts involve more than just loading your code. The cloud provider must provision physical GPU hardware, attach it to a machine, load all necessary drivers and container layers, and only then start your application. This hardware provisioning and initialization process can take 20-30 seconds or more before your code even begins executing.

28 Jan 2026
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GPU cold starts involve more than just loading your code. The cloud provider must provision physical GPU hardware, attach it to a machine, load all necessary drivers and container layers, and only then start your application. This hardware provisioning and initialization process can take 20-30 seconds or more before your code even begins executing.

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What causes GPU cold starts in serverless environments?

GPU cold starts involve more than just loading your code. The cloud provider must provision physical GPU hardware, attach it to a machine, load all necessary drivers and container layers, and only then start your application. This hardware provisioning and initialization process can take 20-30 seconds or more before your code even begins executing.

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