# GPT-2 (1558M) repro on FineWeb-EDU # 1558M parameter model on 32B tokens # => 6 * 1558e6 * 32e9 = 6.966e20 ~= 3e20 capability model # 32,000 steps on ~1M tokens/step (1,048,576 to be precise) # on 8X H100 80GB SXM ($28/hr) steps in 2.80s/iter # => training time 32,000 steps * 2.7s => 24 hours ~= 1 day ~= $672 make train_gpt2cu USE_CUDNN=1 out_dir="log_gpt2_1558M" done_file="$out_dir/DONE_00032000" # 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 mpirun -np 8 ./train_gpt2cu \ -i "dev/data/edu_fineweb100B/edu_fineweb_train_*.bin" \ -j "dev/data/edu_fineweb100B/edu_fineweb_val_*.bin" \ -o $out_dir \ -v 250 -s 300000 -g 384 \ -h 1 \ -b 16 -t 1024 \ -d 1048576 \ -r 0 \ -z 1 \ -c 0.1 \ -k "cosine" \ -l 0.0006 \ -q 0.1 \ -u 700 \ -n 2000 \ -x 32000 \ -ge 1 \ -y 1 \ -e "d48" sleep 1 done