NVIDIA systems engineers deployed Megatron-LM, an open-source framework designed explicitly to parallelize massive Transformer layers across distributed multi-GPU nodes. By implementing advanced model-parallel and tensor-parallel scaling techniques, NVIDIA proved that deep learning architectures could safely scale past 8 billion parameters without running out of physical GPU VRAM.
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