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HeteroServe: Capability-Weighted Batch Scheduling for LLM Inference on Heterogeneous GPU Clusters

Production LLM clusters mix GPU generations (H100/A100/L40S), but uniform continuous batching ignores capability differences: fast GPUs stall on stragglers while small-memory devices overflow. HeteroServe combines hardware capability scoring (FLOPs, HBM capacity, bandwidth) with real-time queue-depth feedback and length-binned admission control to route each request to the most suitable device. Evaluated on a simulated mixed-GPU cluster.

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Claims

≈ attested c1 performance
On a simulated mixed-GPU cluster, HeteroServe achieves 36,772 tokens/sec — 2.13x over uniform continuous batching.
system HeteroServe workload mixed-gpu-cluster-sim metric throughput value 36772 unit tokens/s higher_is_better True baseline uniform-scheduling improvement_pct 113.0 hardware H100+A100+L40S (simulated)
≈ attested c2 comparison
SLO compliance reaches 68.8% vs 26.4% for uniform scheduling (+42.4pp).
system HeteroServe workload mixed-gpu-cluster-sim metric slo-compliance value 68.8 unit % higher_is_better True baseline uniform-scheduling baseline_value 26.4 hardware H100+A100+L40S (simulated)
≈ attested c3 observation
Ablations attribute the dominant gain to queue-depth feedback rather than capability scoring alone.
system HeteroServe workload mixed-gpu-cluster-sim metric ablation-dominant-factor

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