Proven Performance: Up to 250X Faster Than Open-Source Solutions

Independent lab testing with rigorous benchmarks on NVIDIA H100 clusters demonstrates IRONBYTE's superior performance across all AI/ML workloads.

98x Faster
Pre-training

Llama-2-7B pretraining on 2-node cluster: 5 minutes vs 492 minutes

250x Faster
Fine-tuning

Llama-2-7B fine-tuning on 2-node cluster: 15 minutes vs 3,750 minutes

10x Faster
Inference

Multi-inference token generation: 0.0019s vs 0.02s per token

Testing Framework

Parameter #1

Independent testing conducted on enterprise-grade NVIDIA H100 GPU clusters

Parameter #2

Standardized methodology comparing IRONBYTE vs. open-source solutions

Parameter #3

Real-world workloads: LLM pretraining, fine-tuning, and inference

Parameter #4

Industry-standard models: Llama-2-70B and Llama-2-7B

Enterprise-Grade Testing Environment

Infrastructure Details

Hardware: NVIDIA H100 GPUs (80GB) in 1-node and 2-node cluster configurations
Network: 10 Gbit/s and 80 Gbit/s network connectivity
Environment: AlmaLinux 9.5, NVIDIA drivers 550+, CUDA 12.2+
Containerization: Docker with pre-loaded ML libraries and frameworks

Testing Methodology

Workload Standardization: Identical computational tasks across pretraining, fine-tuning, and inference
Dataset Consistency: fineweb-edu (10BT) and databricks-dolly-15k for reproducible results
Performance Monitoring: Real-time resource tracking with nvtop and bmon utilities

TEST RESULTS
Llama2-70B Performance Comparison

Pretraining Task • 1000 Steps

Execution time in minutes

3.2X
Faster vs Single Node
29 min vs 93 min
60.5X
Faster vs Cluster (IB DG)
20 min vs 1,210 min
2.9X
Faster vs Cluster (IB Conn)
20 min vs 58 min

Network Configuration Legend

IB DG Mode: InfiniBand Direct GPU mode at 80 Gbps
IB Conn Mode: InfiniBand Connection mode (standard configuration)
Llama2-70B Performance Comparison

Fine-tuning Task • 500 Steps

Execution time in minutes

1.8X
Faster vs Single Node
68 min vs 124 min
13.8X
Faster vs Cluster (IB DG)
39 min vs 537 min
1.9X
Faster vs Cluster (IB Conn)
39 min vs 74 min

Network Configuration Legend

IB DG Mode: InfiniBand Direct GPU mode at 80 Gbps
IB Conn Mode: InfiniBand Connection mode (standard configuration)
Llama2-70B Performance Comparison

Inference Task • Token Generation Speed

Time to generate 1 token (seconds)

1.06X
Faster vs Single Thread
0.054s vs 0.057s
4.1X
Faster vs Multi-Inference
0.0139s vs 0.057s
2.9X
Multi vs Single Thread
0.0139s vs 0.054s

Tokens Generated Per Second

17.5
Open Source
18.5
IRONBYTE Single
72.0
IRONBYTE Multi

Inference Mode Legend

Single Thread: Traditional single-process inference
Multi-Inference: IRONBYTE's parallel inference optimization
These benchmark results feature the Llama2-70B model, a 70-billion parameter language model, proving IRONBYTE delivers exceptional performance even with the most computationally demanding AI workloads. Our speed and efficiency improvements are even greater with smaller parameter models.
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Business Impact of Performance Gains

Infrastructure ROI

Achieve multiple more output from existing GPU investments.

Faster Time-to-Market

Deploy AI models weeks or months sooner.

Reduced Training Costs

Faster training means dramatically lower electricity and hardware costs.

Competitive Advantage

Train larger models or serve more customers with same resources.

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