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Microsoft presents ZeRO-Infinity

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Presented ZeRO-Infinity — uses heterogeneous GPU+CPU+NVMe memory, exceeding 25 petaflops on 512 V100 GPUs

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Got around the GPU memory wall by extending into the storage tier. Established the framing that the constraint is bandwidth, not memory

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Paperarxiv.orghttps://arxiv.org/abs/2104.07857

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