Brian Pharris

Deploying generative AI workloads in production environments where user numbers can fluctuate from hundreds to hundreds of thousands – and where input sequence lengths differ with each request – poses unique challenges. To achieve low latency inference in these environments, multi-GPU setups are a must – irrespective of the GPU generation or its memory capacity.

Many of the most exciting applications of large language models (LLMs), such as interactive speech bots, coding co-pilots, and search, need to begin responding to user queries quickly to deliver positive user experiences. The time that it takes for an LLM to ingest a user prompt (and context, which can be sizable) and begin outputting a response is called time to first token (TTFT).

As large language models (LLMs) continue to grow in size and complexity, multi-GPU compute is a must-have to deliver the low latency and high throughput that real-time generative AI applications demand.