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LLM · Large Language Model

An autoregressive transformer trained on text at scale; its training and inference shapes drive the facility designs in this guide.

Current numbers

~1–3% tuned servingBlackwell (B200) confidential-computing overhead for a tuned LLM serving stack — 30–40% for a stock stack, ~10–13% for eight-GPU CC trainingas of 2026-09 · register ↗
30%peak grid-demand cut while training Megatron-LLM, measured on a GB200 rack fitted with the GB300 power shelfas of 2025-07 · register ↗
~43.4%large-LLM-job failure rate, top-5% most resource-intensive tasks (Alibaba Unicron); ~37% hardware-attributed, ~73% recoverable via restartas of 2024 · register ↗

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