NeptuneAI shuts down March 5th.
@TrainyAI just launched Pluto on @ycombinator, a drop-in replacement so you don't lose years of experiment data.
Swap one import. Dual-log to validate. Export your history.
Open source. On Neptune's official transition hub.
https://t.co/m77bDjdmrx
@TrainyAI's Konduktor platform helps bring the benefits of a leading research team to your GPU cluster. We provide a fault-tolerant scheduler, integrated observability, and more.
Check out our docs: https://t.co/tO0pbT7eu1
This leads to significantly higher (>80%) GPU usage.
Add in some fault-tolerance to the infrastructure, and we see:
- No more manual restarts at 2am.
- ML Engineers get to focus on their jobs, rather than becoming DevOps experts.
Top tier AI research teams (Meta, OpenAI, etc.) have figured out the most efficient way to work with a cluster of GPUs. Instead of managing each GPU separately, they create a pools of GPU nodes and let sophisticated schedulers manage GPU availability efficiently.
At @TrainyAI, we built a controller within Konduktor to monitor GPU node health and isolate unhealthy nodes. This way if a job fails, 0 manual intervention is required. K8s does its magic of placing work only on healthy nodes, and we forward relevant GPU/NCCL logs to your CSP. 🚀
ML engineers shouldn’t be wasting time debugging infrastructure — especially when H100s have a 25-30% fault rate. 🛠️
ML infrastructure should be able to handle bumps and bruises to the underlying hardware.
3/ One of the biggest value-adds of @TrainyAI's Konduktor platform is that we simplify this complexity. We abstract away network configurations, so you can launch multinode training with high-bandwidth networking across different clouds in the same way.
2/ At @TrainyAI, we've seen AI research teams lose over $10,000 trying to scale out due to misconfigured GPU fabrics. That's a costly mistake that can be avoided.
Setting up and validating GPU networking is a lot less trivial than you'd think. Here's why:
1/ GPU fabric technology varies a lot across cloud providers for the H100. For example, Google Cloud has TCP-X, while AWS uses EFA. Once you commit to one setup, it often locks you in.
He lays out the ARC-AGI benchmark, how it tests generalization abilities rather than memorization, and his thoughts on what kind of AI system will be necessary to improve on the SoTA.
Watch here: https://t.co/vlB7GqAl91
3. Skill does not show intelligence. And displaying skill at any number of tasks does not show intelligence.
- This misguided view of intelligence is what causes our current form of benchmarking to be inadequate.
2. For any LLM, for any query that seems to work, there exists an equivalent rephrasing of the query that will break.
- This ties into LLM's inability to handle deviations from a pattern
- Highlights the modern LLM's lack of robustness
1. The core limitations of Transformer-based architectures have not changed in over 5 years.
- Inability to adapt to small deviations from memorized patterns
- Weak, patchy generalization
The latest Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST) episode, with François Chollet discussing inherent limitations of LLMs, was amazing.
It was a breath of fresh air to hear some sound reasoning after all the usual Doomer/Acceleration talk on AGI. He makes some great points:
With the features above and more, AI teams using @TrainyAI's Konduktor platform see at least 2x the utilization out of their GPU cluster. Curious? Drop me a message or click here to check out our docs: https://t.co/DBaHXQgAvc.
3. Enhanced Observability: Our platform offers comprehensive dashboards that provide a clear view of cluster usage and performance. Metrics like SM Efficiency help you understand how effectively your GPUs are being used, across different jobs and teams.
2. Minimize Downtime Disruptions: Traditional setups require manual intervention if a job fails. With H100 GPUs, these hardware faults are quite frequent (~30%). Konduktor detects hardware issues on failure, resumes jobs on healthy GPUs, and alerts your provider with logs.
@TrainyAI's Konduktor platform is here to change that.
1. Maximize GPU Utilization: With Konduktor, engineers can queue up a large number of jobs on their GPU cluster of varying priorities. This means the P0 workloads get run first, and your GPUs keep crunching numbers 24/7.