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Accelerating Mixture of Experts Training With Rail Optimized InfiniBand Networking in Crusoe Cloud

Overview

This talk focuses on optimizing the infrastructure for training large AI models, specifically addressing the bottlenecks in distributed training caused by network communication. Crusoe Cloud, an AI cloud platform powered by renewable energy, highlights its rail-optimized InfiniBand networking solution designed to accelerate Mixture of Experts (MoE) training by reducing the time gpus spend idle waiting for data exchange.

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*The networking part takes without any optimization about 25 30% of the time of the training time.*
*14% of improvement is something that can be directly connected to the time to train the model that can be directly connected to cost of training the model.*

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