Rough example, a decent GPT-2 (124M) pre-training reproduction would be 1 node of 8x A100 40GB for 32 hours, processing 8 GPU * 16 batch size * 1024 block size * 500K iters = ~65B tokens. I suspect this wall clock can still be improved ~2-3X+ without getting too exotic.

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