Google Cloud has been enhancing its AI Hypercomputer system to make AI training easier and more productive for developers, focusing on building faster and scaling bigger.
The recent enhancements include Pathways on Cloud, an orchestration system for scaling AI workloads from a notebook to thousands of accelerators, boosting interactive supercomputing capabilities.
Xprofiler library provides deep performance analysis on Google Cloud accelerators, helping optimize code execution by profiling and tracing operations to identify bottlenecks and improve efficiency.
Pre-built container images for popular AI frameworks like PyTorch and JAX streamline setup and configuration, offering optimized environments for quick deployment and avoiding compatibility issues.
AI Hypercomputer provides proven recipes and techniques for maximizing GPU training efficiency, including asynchronous checkpointing and the ML Goodput recipe in partnership with NVIDIA.
MaxText offers advanced training capabilities for JAX Language Model Models (LLMs) on Google Cloud with support for fine-tuning techniques and resilient training, enhancing performance across NVIDIA GPUs.
PyTorch/XLA 2.7 and torchprime enable PyTorch users on TPUs to call JAX functions directly and leverage high-performance model training on TPUs with reference implementation for vLLM.
RecML is an optimized recommender system library for training deep-learning models on TPUs, offering performance advantages with SparseCore for processing massive embedding tables efficiently.
Google Cloud continues to improve the AI developer experience by introducing these enhancements to the AI Hypercomputer system, encouraging developers to experiment, innovate, and contribute back to open-source projects.