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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