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Infrastructure Evaluation: NVIDIA Triton Inference Server on GCP: T4 GPU
As part of our ongoing work on shared infrastructure for our AI products, we deployed and tested NVIDIA Triton Inference Server on Google Cloud using Debian-based T4 GPU instances.
The objective was to evaluate Triton as a potential serving layer for production-grade model deployment, with a focus on performance, GPU utilization, operational complexity, and cost efficiency.
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Our testing covered GPU-backed model serving on GCP, containerized Triton deployment, model repository configuration and versioning, inference latency and throughput behavior, and resource utilization with cost considerations.
Overall, the evaluation confirmed that Triton provides a flexible, production-ready serving architecture for GPU workloads. It also offers strong support for multi-model and scalable deployment patterns. While setup complexity is manageable, production usage requires careful configuration and operational discipline.
For experimentation and moderate-scale inference, T4 GPUs proved to be a cost-effective baseline.
This work informs our infrastructure decisions for several product lines, including document processing, LLM-based applications, and future exam preparation workflows.