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Same GPU, two images: the CPU vendor decided which one came back

Five hosts with the same GPU model regenerated one image. The results fell into exactly two byte-identical files — and the CPU vendor, not the driver, sorted them.

September 30, 2026·4 min read
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Mechanisms
Every file verified, environment still dead: the host-side failures

A folder of verified files is not a working environment. Three host-side ways a restore can pass every checksum and still fail — and what the pre-check refuses now.

September 30, 2026·3 min read
Self-reports
The pack we verified that no clean machine could restore

Every file matched, the image regenerated — on the machine that packed it. The next day a clean machine couldn't install its dependencies. What went wrong and what the tool does now.

September 30, 2026·3 min read
Self-reports
Right vendor table, wrong install path: how our driver check turned away good machines

The driver floor in our pre-check was copied from a real vendor table — for installing the CUDA toolkit, which we never do. It took three corrections and one paid-for measurement to get one number honest.

September 30, 2026·3 min read
Field reports
A 23GB video nest, and the exact boundary of 'identical'

Same GPU model: the regenerated video is literally the same file. Different model — even same architecture: a uniform ~0.94 plateau. And the 0.9814 mystery is solved: it was the CPU vendor.

July 15, 2026·4 min read
Field reports
A real workflow survives its first exam — and two clean conclusions get caveats

A workflow with 3 custom nodes and a LoRA is captured and revived intact — including a node that was already broken — while new data forces honest revisions to Vol. 1.

July 15, 2026·4 min read
Field reports
Pack once, revive anywhere: 26 restores across 2 clouds for $1.21

We packed one ComfyUI + SDXL environment, destroyed the machine, and revived it 26 times across 2 clouds, 7 datacenters, and 6 GPU types — every copy verified byte-for-byte.

July 14, 2026·4 min read

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