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How often should a large training run checkpoint, and what does the answer depend on?

Checkpoint too rarely and a failure costs hours of GPU time. Checkpoint too often and you pay for stalled GPUs writing terabytes to storage. There is an arithmetic answer and most teams never do it.

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Checkpoint too rarely and a failure costs hours of GPU time. Checkpoint too often and you pay for stalled GPUs writing terabytes to storage. There is an arithmetic answer and most teams never do it.

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