Hugging Face's Ultra Scale Playbook: a free book on training LLMs on GPU clusters
mdancho84 · x · 2026-09-11
Hugging Face's Ultra Scale Playbook (training LLMs on GPU clusters) is being called one of the best technical books on large-scale LLM training.
Covers:
- GPU memory and profiling
- tiling, kernel fusion, FlashAttention
- Data / Tensor / Pipeline / Context Parallelism
The PDF is free to read online — a solid resource for engineers who want to understand large-scale training systems end to end.
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