Tagged “goodput”

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All Model Architecture19 Training & Alignment22 Inference & Serving18 Agents & Orchestration11 Reasoning & Evaluation26 Safety, Security & Governance7 Platforms & Practice20

Training & Alignment 24 min

At Sixteen Thousand GPUs, Something Is Always Broken: Failures, Stragglers and Silent Data Corruption in Training Clusters

Over 54 days of Llama 3 405B pre-training, the job was interrupted 466 times, roughly once every three hours. At that failure rate the checkpoint interval barely matters; what decides how much of a sixteen-thousand-GPU cluster do…

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Inference & Serving 24 min

Goodput, Not Throughput: The Metric That Decides Whether Your LLM Deployment Works

Two servers run the same model on the same GPUs. One reports 4,200 tokens per second and is unusable; the other reports 2,600 and feels instant. Throughput is a property of the server, latency is a property of the request, and th…

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