diff --git a/backends/trtllm/lib/backend.cpp b/backends/trtllm/lib/backend.cpp
index 8a4ac4c04..a3ac05343 100644
--- a/backends/trtllm/lib/backend.cpp
+++ b/backends/trtllm/lib/backend.cpp
@@ -88,7 +88,16 @@ huggingface::tgi::backends::TensorRtLlmBackend::TensorRtLlmBackend(
         config(json::parse(std::ifstream(enginesFolder / "config.json"))),
         executor(enginesFolder, tensorrt_llm::executor::ModelType::kDECODER_ONLY,
                  GetExecutorConfig(config, executorWorker.string())) {
-    SPDLOG_INFO(FMT_STRING("Engine (version={})"), config["/version"_json_pointer].get_ref<const std::string &>());
+
+    SPDLOG_INFO(FMT_STRING("Engine (version={})"), config["/version"_json_pointer].get<std::string_view>());
+
+    // Ensure we have enough GPUs on the system
+    const auto worldSize = config["/pretrained_config/mapping/world_size"_json_pointer].get<size_t>();
+    const auto numGpus = huggingface::hardware::cuda::GetNumDevices().value_or(0);
+    if (numGpus < worldSize) {
+        SPDLOG_CRITICAL(FMT_NOT_ENOUGH_GPUS, numGpus, worldSize);
+        // todo : raise exception to catch on rust side
+    }
 
     // Cache variables
     maxNumTokens = config["/build_config/max_num_tokens"_json_pointer].get<uint32_t>();