Compare computing devices for a defined AI model workload using memory capacity, computing speed, data transfer, energy use, and cost. Build a comparison that separates predicted performance from measurements and identifies the constraints that determine the choice.

• Choosing hardware for a specific AI model
• Checking whether a model fits in device memory
• Explaining gaps between advertised and measured performance

Plan when an agent’s tool environments are created, kept available, released, and restored. Estimate peak concurrency, resource use during work and waiting, total task duration, and cost across model calls, tool execution, validation, and retries.

• Estimating peak concurrent agent environments
• Comparing environment retention and recreation
• Assessing cold starts and shared environment pools

Compare ways to distribute AI inference across multiple instances, including replicas and separate input-processing and generation stages. Estimate capacity, throughput, delays, state-transfer costs, and recovery overhead to support routing and scaling decisions.

• Compare replicas with separate inference stages
• Plan routing around compute capacity and cached state
• Evaluate expert placement and load imbalance

Compare running models or tasks on a device, nearby edge infrastructure, or in the cloud. Break down interaction delays, data transfers, energy use, costs, and failure recovery to assess deployment choices for multimodal and real-time agents.

• Comparing device, edge, and cloud execution
• Estimating interaction delays on unstable networks
• Assessing battery use and sustainable processing speed

Compare batching, request scheduling, and memory management for a single model serving instance. Assess concurrent request capacity, response times, generation speed, and GPU time per result that meets the required quality and deadline.

• Comparing batching and request scheduling options
• Checking memory capacity for concurrent requests
• Assessing cache reuse and offloading tradeoffs

Analyze GPU operation timings and execution traces to find costly data access, repeated computation, launch overhead, and synchronization waits. Check whether improving an individual operation actually reduces the time needed to complete a full request.

• Investigating slow GPU operations
• Assessing whether combining operations reduces data access
• Checking pipeline dependencies and buffer reuse