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Optimizing Inference Server For Maximum Tokens - Sec

This document outlines strategies to optimize an inference server for maximum tokens per second for a 70B parameter model within a $2,000 budget. Key recommendations include using an NVIDIA RTX 4090 GPU, implementing aggressive quantization, and selecting efficient inference frameworks like vLLM and TensorRT-LLM. Additional steps involve configuring the system, deploying the model, and monitoring performance to fine-tune parameters for optimal results.

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Optimizing Inference Server For Maximum Tokens - Sec

This document outlines strategies to optimize an inference server for maximum tokens per second for a 70B parameter model within a $2,000 budget. Key recommendations include using an NVIDIA RTX 4090 GPU, implementing aggressive quantization, and selecting efficient inference frameworks like vLLM and TensorRT-LLM. Additional steps involve configuring the system, deploying the model, and monitoring performance to fine-tune parameters for optimal results.

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Optimizing Inference Server for Maximum

Tokens/Second
Since your inference server will only be queried by one person at a time, we can focus on
maximizing raw inference performance rather than handling concurrent requests. Here are the
key strategies to achieve the highest tokens per second for your 70B parameter model within a
$2,000 budget.

Hardware Recommendations

GPU Selection
For a sub-$2,000 budget, your best option is the NVIDIA RTX 4090 (24GB VRAM):
Offers excellent performance/price ratio for consumer cards
24GB VRAM is sufficient for running quantized 70B models
Significantly more affordable than data center GPUs like A100 or T4 [1]

System Configuration
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 7950X or Intel i9-13900K (sufficient for supporting the GPU)
RAM: 64GB DDR5 (minimum for handling 70B parameter models)
Storage: 2TB NVMe SSD (for model storage and fast loading)
Power Supply: 1000W Gold/Platinum rated (to handle GPU power requirements)

Software Optimization Techniques

1. Quantization
Since maximizing tokens/second is your priority, aggressive quantization is essential:
Implement 4-bit quantization (AWQ or GPTQ) to reduce memory requirements
This can provide up to 1.7x speedup compared to 8-bit quantization with minimal accuracy
loss [2]

# Example of loading with 4-bit quantization


from transformers import BitsAndBytesConfig

quantization_config = BitsAndBytesConfig(
load_in_4bit=True,
bnb_4bit_compute_dtype=torch.float16
)

model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
"meta-llama/Llama-2-70b",
quantization_config=quantization_config,
device_map="auto"
)

2. Inference Framework Selection


For single-user, maximum throughput scenarios, these frameworks perform best:
vLLM: Consistently delivers high decoding speed and is well-supported [3]
LMDeploy: Can achieve up to 4000 tokens per second in optimal conditions [3]
TensorRT-LLM: Excellent for NVIDIA GPUs with comprehensive optimizations [2]

3. KV Cache Optimization
Implement efficient KV cache management to maximize throughput:
Use PagedAttention (as implemented in vLLM) for memory-efficient KV cache
If your use case involves repetitive prompts, implement prefix-caching strategies [2]

4. Model Serving Configuration


Set up NVIDIA Triton Inference Server with these optimizations:
Implement dynamic batching even for single-user scenarios (batching tokens, not requests)
[4]

Configure operator fusion to improve latency [5]


Use TensorRT model optimization to potentially double throughput [5]

Implementation Steps
1. Install Ubuntu 22.04 LTS with the latest NVIDIA drivers
2. Set up CUDA environment:

sudo apt install -y nvidia-driver-535


wget https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/12.2.0/local_installers/cuda_12.2
sudo sh cuda_12.2.0_535.54.03_linux.run

3. Install Docker and NVIDIA Container Toolkit:

curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com -o get-docker.sh


sudo sh get-docker.sh
distribution=$(. /etc/os-release;echo $ID$VERSION_ID)
curl -s -L https://nvidia.github.io/nvidia-docker/gpgkey | sudo apt-key add -
curl -s -L https://nvidia.github.io/nvidia-docker/$distribution/nvidia-docker.list | sudo
sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y nvidia-container-toolkit
sudo systemctl restart docker

4. Deploy vLLM for maximum performance:

# Pull and run vLLM container


docker run --gpus all --shm-size 1g -p 8000:8000 -v /path/to/models:/models ghcr.io/vllm-

# Start vLLM server with optimized settings


python -m vllm.entrypoints.api_server \
--model /models/llama-2-70b-4bit \
--tensor-parallel-size 1 \
--gpu-memory-utilization 0.95 \
--max-model-len 8192 \
--quantization awq

5. Alternative: Use TensorRT-LLM for potentially higher performance:

# Build TensorRT engine


trtllm-build --model_path /models/llama-2-70b \
--output_path /models/llama-2-70b-engine \
--gemm_plugin float16 \
--max_batch_size 1 \
--max_input_len 2048 \
--max_output_len 512

# Run inference server


docker run --gpus all -it -p 8000:8000 -v /models:/models \
nvcr.io/nvidia/tritonserver:24.02-py3 tritonserver \
--model-repository=/models

Performance Monitoring and Tuning


1. Monitor GPU utilization:

nvidia-smi dmon -s u

2. Measure tokens per second:

import time
from transformers import AutoTokenizer
import requests

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("meta-llama/Llama-2-70b")
prompt = "Write a detailed essay about artificial intelligence."

start_time = time.time()
response = requests.post("http://localhost:8000/generate",
json={"prompt": prompt, "max_tokens": 1000})
end_time = time.time()

output = response.json()["text"]
tokens = len(tokenizer.encode(output))
tokens_per_second = tokens / (end_time - start_time)
print(f"Tokens per second: {tokens_per_second}")

3. Fine-tune parameters based on your specific model and hardware:


Adjust tensor parallelism settings if needed
Experiment with different quantization methods
Optimize prompt processing
By implementing these strategies, you should be able to achieve the maximum possible tokens
per second for a 70B parameter model on consumer hardware within your $2,000 budget.
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1. https://www.trgdatacenters.com/resource/gpu-for-inference/
2. https://tensorfuse.io/blog/llm-throughput-vllm-vs-sglang
3. https://www.bentoml.com/blog/benchmarking-llm-inference-backends
4. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/achieve-hyperscale-performance-for-model-serving-
using-nvidia-triton-inference-server-on-amazon-sagemaker/
5. https://docs.nvidia.com/deeplearning/triton-inference-server/user-guide/docs/user_guide/optimization.
html

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