Inside Llama 3.1 405B MLPerf Training on Azure: System-Level Insights at 8K+ GPU Scale

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By Shantanu Patankar, and Azin Heidarshenas As part of Azure’s MLPerf Training v6.0 submission, we scaled Llama 3.1 405B (NVFP4) pretraining to 8,192 GB200 GPUs across 128 racks on Azure’s Fairwater infrastructure, converging in 7.07 minutes (MLPerf Training Blog). Llama 3.1, with 405 billion active…

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