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Groq runs Mixtral 8x7B-32k with 500 T/s

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Re: Groq runs Mixtral 8x7B-32k with 500 T/s

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How do you know that it didn't somehow find the largest prime? Perhaps you just threw away a Noble Prize.

Nobel Prize in what? There is no Nobel in mathematics or computer science.

nobel prizes are a joke anyways.... Obama got the one for peace?

Re: Groq runs Mixtral 8x7B-32k with 500 T/s

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post #153

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Filled the form for API Access last night. Is there a delay with increased demand now?

Yes, there's a huge amount of demand because Twitter discovered us yesterday. There will be a backlog, so sorry about that.

Understandable. Wish you guys best of luck irrespective.

Re: Groq runs Mixtral 8x7B-32k with 500 T/s

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Sorry, I'm a bit naïve about all of this. Why is this impressive? Can this result not be achieved by throwing more compute at the problem to speed up responses? Isn't the fact that there is a queue when under load just indicative that there's a trade-off between "# of request to process per unit of time" and "amount of compute to put into a response to respond quicker"? https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NVIDIA/Tensor…

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Re: Groq runs Mixtral 8x7B-32k with 500 T/s

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post #145

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The weights are quantized to FP8 when they're stored in memory, but all the activations are computed at full FP16 precision.

Can you explain if this affects quality relative to fp16? And is mixtral quantized?

We don't think so, but you be the judge! I believe we quantize both Mixtral and Llama 2 in this way.

Re: Groq runs Mixtral 8x7B-32k with 500 T/s

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Appreciate the quick reply! That's interesting.

You're welcome. Thanks for reporting. It's pretty confusing so maybe we should change it :)

I've always liked how openrouter.ai does it

They allow you to configure chat participants (a model + params like context or temp) and then each AI answers each question independently in-line so you can compare and remix outputs.

Re: Groq runs Mixtral 8x7B-32k with 500 T/s

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Sorry, I'm a bit naïve about all of this. Why is this impressive? Can this result not be achieved by throwing more compute at the problem to speed up responses? Isn't the fact that there is a queue when under load just indicative that there's a trade-off between "# of request to process per unit of time" and "amount of compute to put into a response to respond quicker"? https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NVIDIA/Tensor…

Scaling up compute can improve throughput, but can't easily improve latency between tokens. Generation is usually bottlenecked by the time it takes to go through the network for each token. To speed that up, you need to perform these computations faster, which is a hard problem after you've exhausted all the obvious options (use the fastest accelerator you can find, cache what you can etc).

Re: Groq runs Mixtral 8x7B-32k with 500 T/s

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Sorry, I'm a bit naïve about all of this. Why is this impressive? Can this result not be achieved by throwing more compute at the problem to speed up responses? Isn't the fact that there is a queue when under load just indicative that there's a trade-off between "# of request to process per unit of time" and "amount of compute to put into a response to respond quicker"? https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NVIDIA/Tensor…

LLM inference is inherently a sequential problem. You can't speed it up by doing more in parallel. You can't generate the 101st token before you've generated the 100th.

Re: Groq runs Mixtral 8x7B-32k with 500 T/s

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Re: Groq runs Mixtral 8x7B-32k with 500 T/s

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post #218
post #114

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We connect hundreds of chips across several racks with fast interconnect.

How fast is the memory bandwidth of that fast interconnect?

Have a look at section 2.3 of our paper. Between any two chips we get 100 Gbps. The overall bandwidth depends on the connection topology used. I don't know if we make that public.

https://wow.groq.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/GroqISCAPape...

Re: Groq runs Mixtral 8x7B-32k with 500 T/s

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post #92

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We are prioritising building out whole systems at the moment I don't think we'll have a consumer level offering in the near future.

I will mention: A lot of innovation in this space comes bottom-up. The sooner you can get something in the hands of individuals and smaller institutions, the better your market position will be. I'm coding to NVidia right now. That builds them a moat. The instant I can get other hardware working, the less of a moat they will have. The more open it is, the more likely I am to adopt it.

Definitely, that's why we've opened our API to everyone.
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