NVIDIA Vera CPUs double throughput for Modal Sandboxes

This post introduces the integration of NVIDIA Vera CPUs into Modal's sandbox execution environment. It details the challenges of multi-tenant sandbox clusters, including spiky resource usage and noisy neighbors. Benchmarks using the 'Agentless Agent Bench' demonstrate that Vera CPUs provide a 2x throughput increase and, counterintuitively, improve performance under heavy load compared to other architectures. The post highlights the benefits for agentic workloads and reinforcement learning rollouts by reducing CPU-bound bottlenecks.