Accelerate LLM model loading and increase context windows with GPUDirect on Amazon FSx for Lustre and TurboQuant (opens in new tab)

If you’re iterating on deploying large language models (LLMs) on AWS GPU instances, you’ve probably noticed the larger the model to be loaded into GPU High Bandwidth Memory (HBM), the longer the painful wait until the GPUs are ready for inference. As models grow to hundreds of billions of parameters and GPU environments grow ever […]