Hugging Face Engineer Says Communication Is the Bottleneck: One Big GPU Beats Multi-Node

Hugging Face engineer Zach Mueller argues that communication overhead—whether via RDMA, PCIe, or InfiniBand—is the biggest bottleneck in multi-GPU training and inference, advising that tasks fitting on a single GPU should stay on one machine rather than scale across nodes.

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