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by Majromax 132 days ago
> GPUs dying during training runs was a major engineering problem that had to be tackled to build LLMs.

The scale there is a little bit different. If you're training an LLM with 10,000 tightly-coupled GPUs where one failure could kill the entire job, then your mean time to failure drops by that factor of 10,000. What is a trivial risk in a single-GPU home setup would become a daily occurrence at that scale.