March 4, 2025
Hugging Face Publishes Guide on Efficient LLM Training Across GPUs
Hugging Face has published the Ultra-Scale Playbook: Training LLMs on GPU Clusters, an open-source guide that provides a detailed exploration of the methodologies and technologies involved in training LLMs across GPU clusters. The playbook is based on over 4000 scaling experiments conducted using up to 512 GPUs, with a focus on optimizing throughput, GPU utilization, and training efficiency. It aims to provide practical guidance for researchers and engineers working on large-scale model training, offering reproducible benchmarks, implementation details, and performance optimizations. The guide covers various parallelism strategies essential for scaling LLM training. Data parallelism (DP) enables multiple GPUs to process
