Achieving near-zero-downtime scaling in Elastic Expert Parallelism
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How asynchronous preparation and NIXL EP enabled near-zero-downtime Elastic EP scaling in vLLM.
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How asynchronous preparation and NIXL EP enabled near-zero-downtime Elastic EP scaling in vLLM.
How Elastic Expert Parallelism lets vLLM scale Mixture-of-Experts serving up or down at runtime by changing data-parallel workers, redistributing experts, and coordinating live topology changes without server restarts.