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Huh so basicly sidestepping the gpu issue entirly and essentially just using some other special piece of silicon with fast (but conventional ram). I still dont understand why u cant distribute a large llm over many different processors each holding a section of the parameters in memory.
Not exactly. Digits still uses a Blackwell GPU, only it uses unified RAM as virtual VRAM instead of actual VRAM. The GPU is probably a down clocked Blackwell. Speculation I've seen is that these are defective and repurposed Blackwells; good for us. By defective I mean they can't run at full speed or are projected to have the cracking die problem, etc.
Because each weight in a layer influences each weight in the next layer, which means the bandwidth requirements are enormous and regular networking solutions are insufficient for that.