[corndoge]

Good lord, hopefully latency isn't 2.5 seconds!

[kahnjw]

Latency in training literally does not matter. You care about throughput. In serving, where latency matters, most DL frameworks allow you to serve the model from a highly optimized C++ binary, no python needed.

The poster you are replying to is 100% correct.

[dnautics]

quote is 'data spend 2500 ms on the wire'. That's not latency. For a nice 10GbE connection, that's optimistically 3 GB or so worth of data. Do you have 3GB of training data? Then it will spend 2500 ms on the wire to distribute to all of your nodes as part of startup.

[sjwright]

I can’t even. How could you ever get 2500 msec on transit? That’s like circling the globe ten times.

[justinclift]

Maybe a bunch of SSL cert exchanges through some very low bandwidth connections? ;)

Still, it's more likely a figure used for exaggeration, for effect.