NVIDIA Hardware Zero-to-Hero: Mastering GPUs for LLM Training and Inference
As an expert AI infrastructure and hardware engineer, this tutorial takes developers and AI practitioners from zero knowledge to hero-level proficiency with NVIDIA hardware for large language models (LLMs). NVIDIA GPUs dominate LLM workloads due to their unmatched parallel processing, high memory bandwidth, and specialized features like Tensor Cores, making them essential for efficient training and serving of models like GPT or Llama.[1][2] Why NVIDIA GPUs Are Critical for LLMs NVIDIA hardware excels in LLM tasks because of its architecture optimized for massive matrix multiplications and transformer operations central to LLMs. A100 (Ampere architecture) and H100 (Hopper architecture) provide Tensor Cores for accelerated mixed-precision computing, while systems like DGX integrate multiple GPUs with NVLink and NVSwitch for seamless scaling. ...