Tri Dao published FlashAttention-2, completely re-engineering the internal memory read-write allocation sequences on GPU clusters. By optimizing work partitioning across compute warps and minimizing non-matrix multiplication overhead, this software update accelerated Transformer context training speeds by 2x, enabling massive long-context scaling.
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