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Modal Frames Cloud Buffer Management As Linear Optimization Solved With GLOP

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OPCharles 🎉 Frye#863Charles 🎉 Frye@CHARLES_IRL

Added a smol new section to last week's blog post on the technical internals of @modal's fast cold boots. This section describes how we frame cloud buffer management as a linear optimization problem and solve it with GLOP. https://modal.com/blog/truly-serverless-gpus

11:10 AM · May 18, 2026 View on X
REPLYCharles 🎉 Frye#863Charles 🎉 Frye@CHARLES_IRL

@modal added this so i could update the title to create the perfect HackerNews bait, looks like it worked

Charles 🎉 FryeCharles 🎉 Frye@charles_irl

Added a smol new section to last week's blog post on the technical internals of @modal's fast cold boots. This section describes how we frame cloud buffer management as a linear optimization problem and solve it with GLOP. https://modal.com/blog/truly-serverless-gpus

6:10 PM · May 18, 2026 · 3.8K Views
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