# GPT-2 (124M) repro on FineWeb # 124M parameter model on 10B tokens # => 6 * 124e6 * 10e9 = 7.44e18 ~= 7e18 capability model # 18,865 steps of 524,288 tokens/step # on 8X A100 80GB SXM ($14/hr) steps in ~300ms/iter # => training time 18,865 * 300ms = 94.3 min ~= $20 make train_gpt2cu USE_CUDNN=1 out_dir="log_gpt2_124M" done_file="$out_dir/DONE_00018865" # in case the training stalls or crashes, loop to resume (-y 1) while true; do # exit condition is that optimization has finished if [ -f "$done_file" ]; then echo "File $done_file exists. Exiting the loop." break fi # run python dev/data/fineweb.py --version 10B to prepro data # run python dev/data/hellaswag.py to prepro hellaswag eval mpirun -np 8 ./train_gpt2cu \ -i "dev/data/fineweb10B/fineweb_train_*.bin" \ -j "dev/data/fineweb10B/fineweb_val_*.bin" \ -o $out_dir \ -v 250 -s 20000 -g 144 \ -h 1 \ -b 64 -t 1024 \ -d 524288 \ -r 0 \ -z 1 \ -c 0.1 \ -l 0.0006 \ -q 0.0 \ -u 700 \ -n 5000 \ -y 1 \ -e "d12" sleep 1 done