# Runway — Borrowing the Night: Reclaiming Idle Inference GPUs for Research

- Company: Runway (runway.com)
- Announced: 2026-07-02
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://runway.com/news/engineering/borrowing-the-night-reclaiming-idle-inference-gpus-for-research
- Record: https://forck.live/items/7869-borrowing-the-night-reclaiming-idle-inference-gpus-for-research
- Subject: Gen / Aleph

Runway built a capacity controller called deckard that reallocates GPUs between production inference and research based on daily demand cycles, using queueing theory to optimize allocations so that production tracks demand without over-provisioning and more GPUs are available for research overnight.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://runway.com/news/engineering/borrowing-the-night-reclaiming-idle-inference-gpus-for-research:

> We built a lightweight capacity controller to do this reallocation (internally called deckard, after the Blade Runner protagonist who relentlessly reclaims replicants).

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