Validating Distributed LLM Serving Benchmarks with NVIDIA srt-slurm, SLURM Recipes, Parameter Sweeps, and Pareto Analysis
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NVIDIA's srt-slurm framework automates the creation and validation of distributed LLM serving benchmarks by converting YAML configurations into reproducible SLURM workflows. The tutorial demonstrates using srtctl to define cluster configurations, execute parameter sweeps across DeepSeek-R1 models with disaggregated prefill-decode deployments, and analyze throughput-versus-latency trade-offs through Pareto frontier visualization. Validated recipes can then be submitted to real GPU clusters with preflight checks, monitoring, and reproducible experiment comparison.