My GPU Was Starving: How I Broke the I/O Wall for 3.7x Faster Training
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Image by Author via AI Re-architecting data pipelines with Bit-shuffle, Zstd, and LMDB to eliminate SSD bottlenecks in million-scale AI projects. The Silent Killer of GPU Performance In the pursuit of faster model convergence, we often obsess over TFLOPS and learning rates. However, during a recent million-scale