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Automated Dynamic AI Inference Scaling on HPC-Infrastructure: Integrating Kubernetes, Slurm and vLLM

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing 2025-11-27 v1 Artificial Intelligence Databases Performance

Abstract

Due to rising demands for Artificial Inteligence (AI) inference, especially in higher education, novel solutions utilising existing infrastructure are emerging. The utilisation of High-Performance Computing (HPC) has become a prevalent approach for the implementation of such solutions. However, the classical operating model of HPC does not adapt well to the requirements of synchronous, user-facing dynamic AI application workloads. In this paper, we propose our solution that serves LLMs by integrating vLLM, Slurm and Kubernetes on the supercomputer \textit{RAMSES}. The initial benchmark indicates that the proposed architecture scales efficiently for 100, 500 and 1000 concurrent requests, incurring only an overhead of approximately 500 ms in terms of end-to-end latency.

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@article{arxiv.2511.21413,
  title  = {Automated Dynamic AI Inference Scaling on HPC-Infrastructure: Integrating Kubernetes, Slurm and vLLM},
  author = {Tim Trappen and Robert Keßler and Roland Pabel and Viktor Achter and Stefan Wesner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.21413},
  year   = {2025}
}

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6 pages, 3 figures