# GPT-2 (774M) repro on FineWeb # 774M parameter model on ~150B tokens # => 6 * 774e6 * 150e9 = 6.966e20 ~= 7e20 capability model (10X 350M) # => 286,102 steps on 524,288 tokens/step # on 8X A100 80GB SXM ($14/hr) steps in ~1.7s/iter # => training time 286,102 steps * 1.7s = 135 hours ~= 5.6 days ~= $2000 (10X 124M) make train_gpt2cu USE_CUDNN=1 out_dir="log_gpt2_774M" done_file="$out_dir/DONE_00286102" # in case the training stalls or crashes, loop to resume (-y 1) while true; do # exit condition is that optimization has finished if [ -f "$done_file" ]; then echo "File $done_file exists. Exiting the loop." break fi # run python dev/data/fineweb.py --version 100B to prepro data # run python dev/data/hellaswag.py to prepro hellaswag eval mpirun -np 8 ./train_gpt2cu \ -i "dev/data/fineweb100B/fineweb_train_*.bin" \ -j "dev/data/fineweb100B/fineweb_val_*.bin" \ -o $out_dir \ -v 250 -s 300000 -g 144 \ -h 1 \ -b 32 -t 1024 \ -d 524288 \ -r 0 \ -z 1 \ -c 0.1 \ -l 0.00025 \ -q 0.0 \ -u 700 \ -n 4000 \ -x 286102 \ -y 1 \ -e "d36" sleep 1 done