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GPT3 benchmark, as others have said this means it would be ~46 hours to train GPT, still impressive! Also, going by other comments here, ~3500 of these or 13-14 DGX GH200s at ~$10m each means we are talking about ~$135m worth of compute here. Still very impressive but holy hell that is a lot of money worth of compute hardware.

It’s remarkable that one of these could train GPT-3 in under a month. However, good to note that its the price is that of twenty 4090’s.

Could it actually? Or do you need the memory size of thousands of them running in parallel?

Yes I worded that extremely poorly.

One interesting thing is if the model can’t fit into GPU memory (sharded across multiple chips) it would be much slower. So one chip would take more than a month.

That’s why these clusters are so valuable, even with Nvidias margins they are still cheaper than using less compute for longer.

title says: "a massive GPT-3-based benchmark"

that means they might pass a few batches through a GPT-3 sized random init network and time it