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New blog alert 📖 - Understanding Multi GPU Communication and Nvidia NCCL for finetuning models. Recently, one of our users were fine-tuning LoRA adapters via Axolotl. They ran into an issue where some occasional training jobs would run extremely slowly and eventually crash with a “Watchdog timeout” error. So we dig deep into the Nvidia NCCL rabbit hole, fixed the issue and wrote a blog about it. In this post, you’ll learn: - What NCCL does and why it’s critical for multi-GPU training - How we fixed one of the most common challenges of Nvidia’s NCCL library - the dreaded “watchdog timeout” error. Read the full blog here: https://lnkd.in/dCwY-a2d Let us know in the comments if you ever run into similar issues and how did you fix them.