Curious to know what the experiences are for those who are sticking to bare metal. Would like to better understand what keeps such admins from migrating to containers, Docker, Podman, Virtual Machines, etc. What keeps you on bare metal in 2025?

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    8 hours ago

    Can anyone confirm if containers would actually impact CPU to GPU transfers

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      8 hours ago

      To be clear, VMs absolutely have overhead but Docker/Podman is the question. It might be negligible.

      And this is a particularly weird scenario (since prompt processing literally has to shuffle ~112GB over the PCIe bus for each batch). Most GPGPU apps aren’t so sensitive to transfer speed/latency.