# GPT-2 (1558M) repro on FineWeb # 1558M parameter model on 100B tokens # => 6 * 1558Me6 * 100e9 = 6.966e20 ~= 1e21 capability model # => 100,000 steps on 1M tokens/step (1,048,576 to be precise) # on 8X A100 80GB SXM ($14/hr) steps in ~7s/iter # => training time 100,000 steps * 7s = 194.4 hours ~= 8.1 days ~= $2721.6 make train_gpt2cu USE_CUDNN=1 out_dir="log_gpt2_1558M" done_file="$out_dir/DONE_00100000" # 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 16 -t 1024 \ -d 1048576 \ -r 0 \ -z 1 \ -c 0.1 \ -l 0.0002 \ -q 0.1 \ -u 700 \ -n 2000 \ -x 100000 \ -y 1 \ -e "d48" sleep 1 done