Accelerating Transformer Training with NVIDIA Transformer Engine, Fused Kernels, BF16, FP8, and GPU Benchmarking

1Key Takeaways

• Discover how to optimize transformer workloads using the NVIDIA Transformer Engine.
• This tutorial guides you through configuring fused GPU kernels, implementing FP8 delayed scaling, and benchmarking model performance.
• Learn to build and train efficient GPT-style causal language models in PyTorch with practical code examples and performance analysis.