The article discusses the challenges and strategies for load testing and infrastructure decisions when self-hosting Large Language Models (LLMs).
The US Commerce Department has proposed new rules requiring developers of large AI models and those providing the infrastructure to train them to report details about their operations. This is in response to concerns about the potential risks posed by advanced AI, including its potential use in cybercrime and the development of weapons.
Run:ai offers a platform to accelerate AI development, optimize GPU utilization, and manage AI workloads. It is designed for GPUs, offers CLI & GUI interfaces, and supports various AI tools & frameworks.
This blog post provides a guide for optimizing LLM serving performance on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) by covering infrastructure decisions, model server optimizations, and best practices for maximizing GPU utilization. It includes recommendations for quantization, GPU selection (G2 vs A3), batching strategies, and leveraging model server features like PagedAttention.
Backprop provides powerful and affordable GPU instances for AI development, with pre-built environments, pay-as-you-go pricing, and fast internet.
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.
This article explores the concept of quantization in large language models (LLMs) and its benefits, including reducing memory usage and improving performance. It also discusses various quantization methods and their effects on model quality.
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.
GPU-accelerated LLMs on Odrange Pi 5, which features a Mali-G610 GPU. The authors used Machine Learning Compilation (MLC) techniques to achieve speeds of 2.3 tok/sec for Llama3-8b, 2.5 tok/sec for Llama2-7b, and 5 tok/sec for RedPajama-3b. They also managed to run a Llama-2 13b model at 1.5 tok/sec on a 16GB version of the Orange Pi 5+.
