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TLDR

An unofficial Traditional Chinese translation of the Ultra-Scale Playbook guide to training large language models on GPU clusters, with an interactive lab for every chapter.

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  root((Ultra-Scale Playbook zh-TW))
    What it does
      Chinese translation of LLM training guide
      Interactive labs per chapter
      Offline static website
    Tech stack
      HTML
      Python build script
      Static webapp
    Use cases
      Learn large scale LLM training
      Explore GPU parallelism visually
      Reference for Chinese speaking engineers
    Audience
      Researchers
      ML engineers
    Setup
      Python http server
      Rebuild via build.py

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What do people build with it?

USE CASE 1

Read a Traditional Chinese explanation of how to train large language models across GPU clusters.

USE CASE 2

Use the interactive memory calculator to understand single GPU memory usage during training.

USE CASE 3

Explore visual simulations of data, tensor, context, pipeline, and expert parallelism strategies.

USE CASE 4

Run the static website locally and offline to study the material without an internet connection.

What is it built with?

HTMLPythonJavaScript

How does it compare?

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Stars383838
LanguageHTMLHTMLHTML
Last pushed2024-01-31
MaintenanceDormant
Setup difficultyeasyhardeasy
Complexity2/55/52/5
Audienceresearcherdeveloperresearcher

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How do you get it running?

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 5min
Apache 2.0 license, free to use, modify, and distribute including commercially, as long as you keep attribution and license notices.

In plain English

This project is an unofficial Traditional Chinese translation of The Ultra-Scale Playbook: Training LLMs on GPU Clusters, a guide originally published by the nanotron team at Hugging Face. The translation is maintained by the Twinkle AI Community in Taiwan, and the original authors are credited by name. Both the original and the translation are released under the Apache 2.0 license. The original playbook walks through how to train very large language models across many GPUs at once, starting from understanding memory use on a single GPU and building up to data, tensor, context, pipeline, and expert parallelism, along with GPU kernel optimization and mixed precision training. What sets this translated version apart is that every chapter has its own interactive lab, recreating the spirit of the original site's interactive diagrams with custom built components rather than a plain text translation. Examples listed include a memory calculator for a single GPU, a visualization of ZeRO memory sharding for data parallelism, animations of tensor parallelism splitting, a Ring Attention animation for context parallelism, a bubble scheduling simulator comparing two pipeline parallelism approaches, a Mixture of Experts routing visualization, a five dimensional parallelism configuration explorer, a step by step configuration wizard, animations of matrix multiplication tiling, and a floating point format explorer covering FP32, BF16, FP16, and FP8. The repository is organized into a folder of chapter by chapter translated markdown files, a static interactive website that can run entirely offline, the original English HTML source and bibliography kept for reference, the original source markdown, and a build script that turns the translated markdown into the website. Running it locally is a matter of starting a simple Python web server inside the webapp folder and rebuilding with the build script after editing any translation or component. The translation notes explain that the team worked from the original markdown as the primary source, cross checked against the original HTML for anything lost in format conversion, restored broken math notation and code blocks, and kept certain English abbreviations and terms untranslated, such as the parallelism strategy names and collective communication operation names, while reusing the original 134 illustrations rather than extracting them from a PDF.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
Summarize the five dimensions of parallelism covered in this Ultra-Scale Playbook translation.
Prompt 2
Explain how the ZeRO memory sharding visualization in this project works.
Prompt 3
Help me set up and run the webapp locally using the included Python build script.
Prompt 4
What does the pipeline parallelism bubble scheduling simulator in this project compare?

Frequently asked questions

What is ultrascale-playbook-zh-tw?

An unofficial Traditional Chinese translation of the Ultra-Scale Playbook guide to training large language models on GPU clusters, with an interactive lab for every chapter.

What language is ultrascale-playbook-zh-tw written in?

Mainly HTML. The stack also includes HTML, Python, JavaScript.

What license does ultrascale-playbook-zh-tw use?

Apache 2.0 license, free to use, modify, and distribute including commercially, as long as you keep attribution and license notices.

How hard is ultrascale-playbook-zh-tw to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated easy, with roughly 5min to a first successful run.

Who is ultrascale-playbook-zh-tw for?

Mainly researcher.

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