{"id":221842,"date":"2025-09-13T20:18:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T01:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/a-systems-view-of-llms-on-tpus"},"modified":"2025-09-13T20:18:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T01:18:09","slug":"a-systems-view-of-llms-on-tpus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/a-systems-view-of-llms-on-tpus","title":{"rendered":"A Systems View of LLMs on TPUs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-systems-view-of-llms-on-tpus.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Training LLMs often feels like alchemy, but understanding and optimizing the performance of your models doesn\u2019t have to. This book aims to demystify the science of scaling language models: how TPUs (and GPUs) work and how they communicate with each other, how LLMs run on real hardware, and how to parallelize your models during training and inference so they run efficiently at massive scale. If you\u2019ve ever wondered \u201chow expensive should this LLM be to train\u201d or \u201chow much memory do I need to serve this model myself\u201d or \u201cwhat\u2019s an AllGather\u201d, we hope this will be useful to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Training LLMs often feels like alchemy, but understanding and optimizing the performance of your models doesn\u2019t have to. This book aims to demystify the science of scaling language models: how TPUs (and GPUs) work and how they communicate with each other, how LLMs run on real hardware, and how to parallelize your models during training [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}