Pipeline Parallelism

Model Too Large? Split Along the Depth Axis.

Step through the motivation for pipeline parallelism — from single-GPU overflow to tensor parallel limits to the depth-axis split that makes large models trainable.

32
Layers
32 GB
Model Size
8 GB
Per GPU VRAM
4
Steps

Why Pipeline Parallelism Exists

Navigate through 4 steps to see how a 32-layer model that can't fit on one GPU gets partitioned across the depth axis.