David Hall

@dlwh.bsky.social

Research Engineering Lead at @StanfordCRFM. I do NLP and foundation model things with JAX. Previously Semantic Machines, Microsoft, Berkeley, Breeze

In a new blog, Russell Power explains how the Marin team nearly doubled its sustained TPU usage by creating a custom global scheduler: Iris. Iris searches every region where Marin has compute, places each job wherever capacity appears, and moves data along as needed. 🔗 openathena.ai/blog/cluster...

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To train better open models, we need predictable scaling. Delphi is Marin’s first step: we pretrained many small models with one recipe, then extrapolated 300× to predict a 25B-param / 600B-token run with just 0.2% error. Getting there took some work 🧵