A startup called Backprop has demonstrated that a single Nvidia RTX 3090 GPU, released in 2020, can handle serving a modest large language model (LLM) like Llama 3.1 8B to over 100 concurrent users with acceptable throughput. This suggests that expensive enterprise GPUs may not be necessary for scaling LLMs to a few thousand users.
A discussion post on Reddit's LocalLLaMA subreddit about logging the output of running models and monitoring performance, specifically for debugging errors, warnings, and performance analysis. The post also mentions the need for flags to output logs as flat files, GPU metrics (GPU utilization, RAM usage, TensorCore usage, etc.) for troubleshooting and analytics.
