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fragfrontier

confirmedKubernetesCluster & infrastructureJuly 8, 2026

the question

Does GPU external fragmentation limit what you can schedule on Kubernetes?

what came out

Permanently. With 4 free GPUs, a 4-GPU pod runs when they sit on one node but is Pending forever when split 2+2 -- the largest schedulable job is bounded by the most-free node (2), not the pool (4). Real 2-node cluster, independently verified.

method & receipts

  • Result: confirmed
  • Pre-registered the prediction was written down and committed before the run.
  • Reproducible one script re-runs the whole thing from scratch.
  • Independently reviewed an adversarial review pass, kept in the repo.
  • Machine-readable claims every reported number, in a checkable file.
  • Tested — a correctness/benchmark suite ships alongside the code.

→ read the code and re-run it

github.com/v-code01/fragfrontier