Anshul Jindal & Martin Piercy

Your Next AI Needs 10,000 GPUs. Now What?

Training large language models is a networking problem, not a compute problem. Learn how to keep thousands of GPUs from sitting idle.

Your Next AI Needs 10,000 GPUs. Now What?
#1about 2 minutes

Introduction to large-scale AI infrastructure challenges

An overview of the topics to be covered, from the progress of generative AI to the compute requirements for training and inference.

#2about 4 minutes

Understanding the fundamental shift to generative AI

Generative AI creates novel content, moving beyond prediction to unlock new use cases in coding, content creation, and customer experience.

#3about 6 minutes

Using NVIDIA NIMs and blueprints to deploy models

NVIDIA Inference Microservices (NIMs) and blueprints provide pre-packaged, optimized containers to quickly deploy models for tasks like retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).

#4about 4 minutes

An overview of the AI model development lifecycle

Building a production-ready model involves a multi-stage process including data curation, distributed training, alignment, optimized inference, and implementing guardrails.

#5about 6 minutes

Understanding parallelism techniques for distributed AI training

Training massive models requires splitting them across thousands of GPUs using tensor, pipeline, and data parallelism to manage compute and communication.

#6about 2 minutes

The scale of GPU compute for training and inference

Training large models like Llama requires millions of GPU hours, while inference for a single large model can demand a full multi-GPU server.

#7about 3 minutes

Key hardware and network design for AI infrastructure

Effective multi-node training depends on high-speed interconnects like NVLink and network architectures designed to minimize communication latency between GPUs.

#8about 3 minutes

Accessing global GPU capacity with DGX Cloud Lepton

NVIDIA's DGX Cloud Lepton is a marketplace connecting developers to a global network of cloud partners for scalable, on-demand GPU compute.

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