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gangdeadlock

confirmedKubernetesCluster & infrastructureJuly 8, 2026

the question

Can two competing multi-pod GPU gangs deadlock the default Kubernetes scheduler?

what came out

Yes -- the scheduling atom is one Pod, so two gangs in a 2/2 split strand all 4 GPUs with 0 gangs runnable, and the default scheduler neither prevents nor breaks it. One atomic multi-GPU pod per job is structurally immune. Real 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/gangdeadlock