Modal Claims NVIDIA Vera CPUs Offer 2X Throughput Over Intel And AMD
Modal is a specialized cloud provider that offers on-demand computing infrastructure for AI developers, including isolated environments where AI coding agents can execute shell commands, compile software, manipulate repositories, and run other tools. These so-called agentic sandboxes can be unpredictable, with workloads that spend much of their time idle before suddenly demanding substantial CPU resources. Modal's business depends on running as many of these environments as possible without allowing one customer's workload to interfere with another's, and it says NVIDIA's new Vera CPU is as much as twice as fast as Intel's Granite Rapids.
To test Vera, Modal developed the Agentless Agent Bench, a collection of 50 Terminal-Bench solutions and verifiers covering tasks such as compilation, file searching, Git operations, and device emulation. The company reports up to twice the throughput of an equivalent Intel Granite Rapids(GNR) system when running these workloads concurrently. Rather than measuring how quickly a...
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