Tensor parallelism (TP)

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Splitting each layer's math across GPUs; makes a big model fit and adds bandwidth, but needs constant fast communication — keep within one NVLink node.

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Splitting each layer's math across GPUs; makes a big model fit and adds bandwidth, but needs constant fast communication — keep within one NVLink node. (vLLM: --tensor-parallel-size.)