diff --git a/clients/python/utils/client.py b/clients/python/utils/client.py
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+import asyncio
+import logging
+import time
+from text_generation import AsyncClient
+
+from typing import List, Dict
+from torch import IntTensor
+from transformers import AutoTokenizer
+import numpy as np
+
+from hydra import (
+    compose,
+    initialize
+)
+from omegaconf import DictConfig, OmegaConf
+
+
+log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+# intialize Hydra subsystem
+initialize(version_base=None, config_path="conf")
+cfg: DictConfig = compose("config.yaml")
+print(f"Experiment configuration:\n{OmegaConf.to_yaml(cfg)}")
+
+# serving system deployment
+max_concurrent_requests: int = cfg.deployment.max_concurrent_requests
+endpoint: str = ""
+if cfg.deployment.local: endpoint = f"{cfg.deployment.addr}:{ cfg.deployment.port}"
+if not cfg.deployment.local: endpoint = cfg.deployment.endpoint
+client = AsyncClient(endpoint)
+
+# uncomment for using natural language prompts
+# prompt: str = "Hello" * 100
+# output_lenght (decoding length)
+max_new_tokens: int = cfg.GenerationConfig.max_new_tokens
+# generation_strategy
+repetition_penalty: float = cfg.GenerationConfig.repetition_penalty
+do_sample: bool = cfg.GenerationConfig.do_sample
+# generation finish reason
+stop_sequences: List[str] = [stop for stop in cfg.GenerationConfig.stop_sequences]
+tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(cfg.macros.tokenizer_name)
+# "id": 21820 = "Hello"
+dummy_input: IntTensor = IntTensor([[21820]])
+# inverse tokenization (sanity check)
+# token: str = tokenizer.decode(dummy_input[0], skip_special_tokens=True)
+sequence_length: int = cfg.GenerationConfig.sequence_length
+multiple_dummy_repeat = dummy_input.repeat(1, sequence_length)
+prompt: str = tokenizer.decode(multiple_dummy_repeat[0], skip_special_tokens=True)
+assert np.shape(multiple_dummy_repeat)[-1] == sequence_length
+
+generate_kwargs: Dict = {"do_sample": do_sample,
+                         "max_new_tokens": max_new_tokens,
+                        "repetition_penalty": repetition_penalty,
+                        "stop_sequences": stop_sequences,
+                        "decoder_input_details": True,
+                        }
+
+prompts: List = [prompt] * max_concurrent_requests
+# create many coroutines
+coros = [client.generate(prompt, **generate_kwargs) for prompt in prompts]
+
+async def batch():
+    return await asyncio.gather(*coros)
+    
+st: float = time.perf_counter_ns()
+results = asyncio.run(batch())
+et = (time.perf_counter_ns() - st) * 1e-9
+print(f"Serving elapsed time: {et:0.4f} seconds")
+# check the last response
+print(results[-1].details)
+
+total_input_sequence_tokens: int = 0
+total_decoded_tokens: int = 0
+
+for prompt, response in zip(prompts,results):
+    # uncomment for see generations
+    # print(prompt + response.generated_text)
+    # assert np.shape(tokenizer(response.generated_text, return_tensors="pt").input_ids)[-1] -1 == max_new_tokens
+    # assert response.details.generated_tokens == max_new_tokens
+    total_input_sequence_tokens += len(response.details.prefill)
+    total_decoded_tokens += response.details.generated_tokens
+assert total_input_sequence_tokens == max_concurrent_requests * sequence_length
+
+# stats
+print(f"Serving elapsed time: {et:0.4f} seconds")
+print(f"Total requests: {max_concurrent_requests}")
+print(f"Total sequences tokens: {total_input_sequence_tokens}")
+print(f"Sequence length: {sequence_length}")
+print(f"Total decoded tokens: {total_decoded_tokens}")
+print(f"Throughput: {total_decoded_tokens/et} tokens/sec")
+print(f"Total processed tokens: {total_decoded_tokens + total_input_sequence_tokens}")
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diff --git a/clients/python/utils/conf/config.yaml b/clients/python/utils/conf/config.yaml
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+deployment:
+  addr: http://127.0.0.1
+  port: 8080
+  max_concurrent_requests: 64
+  local: True
+  endpoint: http://guanaco-65b-merged.inference.takomo.internal 
+
+macros:
+  tokenizer_name: bigscience/bloom-560m
+
+GenerationConfig:
+  max_new_tokens: 100
+  repetition_penalty: 1.5
+  do_sample: True
+  stop_sequences: 
+    - "length"
+  sequence_length: 100
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diff --git a/server/text_generation_server/debug_backend.py b/server/text_generation_server/debug_backend.py
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+# 	SAFETENSORS_FAST_GPU=1 python -m torch.distributed.run --nproc_per_node=2 text_generation_server/cli.py serve distilgpt2
+import subprocess
+import os
+from pathlib import Path
+
+wd_dir: str = Path(__file__).parent.absolute()
+cli_path: str = os.path.join(wd_dir, "cli.py")
+os.environ["SAFETENSORS_FAST_GPU"] = "1"
+command: str = f"python -m torch.distributed.run --nproc_per_node=1 {cli_path} serve bigscience/bloom-560m"
+subprocess.run(command.split())
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