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observed interruption interval for one 16,384-H100 Llama 3 405B run: 419 unplanned interruptions over 54 days; why provisioning is a continuous day-2 loop

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Value kindobserved — Reported measurements, counts, and specifications keep the precision and scope stated by their source; an exact specification is not treated as a range.
ScopeObserved whole-job cadence for the named run, not a per-GPU MTBF or portable accelerator-count scaling law.
As of2024
SourceMeta Llama 3
Reviewchecking…review by 2026-09-02 · standard cadence
Recorded changeslast 2026-08-24 · 2 revisions tracked
Claim idfailure-interval-for-a-16-000-gpu-cluster-at-50

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