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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

30%peak grid-demand reduction demonstrated while training Megatron-LLM with energy-enhanced power shelvesas of 2025 · register ↗
~30–50%typical model-FLOPS-utilization (MFU) for large LLM training; best-in-class >50% on Hopperas of 2025 · register ↗
~43.4%large-LLM-job failure rate (~37% hardware-attributed; ~73% recoverable via restart)as of 2024 · register ↗

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