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The Ultra-Scale Playbook: Training LLMs on GPU Clusters
A definitive guide to scaling intelligence.
In an era where language models stretch across billions of parameters and trillions of tokens, The Ultra-Scale Playbook offers a rare behind-the-scenes look at the engineering feats that make frontier AI possible. Written by leading minds from Hugging Face and beyond, this 2025 technical opus distills hard-earned lessons from the trenches of ultra-scale training.
Whether you're orchestrating multi-node GPU clusters, optimizing data throughput, or designing fault-tolerant systems for distributed learning, this playbook is your blueprint. It covers:
- Cluster architecture and orchestration
- Memory-efficient training and parallelism strategies
- Data pipeline design for massive corpora
- Checkpointing, failure recovery, and reproducibility
- Scaling across heterogeneous hardware and global teams
But this isn’t just a manual—it’s a systems-level meditation on what it means to build intelligence at scale. With clarity, precision, and philosophical depth, the authors invite readers to rethink not just how we train models, but why.
Perfect for AI researchers, infrastructure engineers, and anyone building the future of machine learning—this book is both a technical compass and a cultural artifact of the ultra-scale frontier.
In an era where language models stretch across billions of parameters and trillions of tokens, The Ultra-Scale Playbook offers a rare behind-the-scenes look at the engineering feats that make frontier AI possible. Written by leading minds from Hugging Face and beyond, this 2025 technical opus distills hard-earned lessons from the trenches of ultra-scale training.
Whether you're orchestrating multi-node GPU clusters, optimizing data throughput, or designing fault-tolerant systems for distributed learning, this playbook is your blueprint. It covers:
- Cluster architecture and orchestration
- Memory-efficient training and parallelism strategies
- Data pipeline design for massive corpora
- Checkpointing, failure recovery, and reproducibility
- Scaling across heterogeneous hardware and global teams
But this isn’t just a manual—it’s a systems-level meditation on what it means to build intelligence at scale. With clarity, precision, and philosophical depth, the authors invite readers to rethink not just how we train models, but why.
Perfect for AI researchers, infrastructure engineers, and anyone building the future of machine learning—this book is both a technical compass and a cultural artifact of the ultra-scale frontier.
- GenresArtificial Intelligence
246 pages, ebook
First published January 1, 2025
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