diff --git a/megatron/arguments.py b/megatron/arguments.py
index c18235a78..ba9125edd 100644
--- a/megatron/arguments.py
+++ b/megatron/arguments.py
@@ -317,6 +317,10 @@ def parse_args(extra_args_provider=None, defaults={},
             raise ModuleNotFoundError("Please install bitsandbytes from https://github.com/facebookresearch/bitsandbytes.")
 
     _print_args(args)
+
+    # Extra sanity-checks and configuration summary (adapted from GPT-NeoX)
+    _validate_and_summarize_args(args)
+
     return args
 
 
@@ -432,7 +436,7 @@ def _add_logging_args(parser):
                        help='Report to tensorboard interval.')
     group.add_argument('--tensorboard-queue-size', type=int, default=1000,
                        help='Size of the tensorboard queue for pending events '
-                       'and summaries before one of the ‘add’ calls forces a '
+                       "and summaries before one of the 'add' calls forces a "
                        'flush to disk.')
     group.add_argument('--log-timers-to-tensorboard', action='store_true',
                        help='If set, write timers to tensorboard.')
@@ -1078,3 +1082,76 @@ def _add_activation_checkpoint_args(parser):
     group.add_argument('--profile-backward', action='store_true',
                        help='Enables backward pass profiling for checkpointed layers.')
     return parser
+
+# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Consistency checks & startup summary
+# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+def _rank0_print(msg=""):
+    """Utility: only print from global rank 0."""
+    if int(os.getenv("RANK", "0")) == 0:
+        print(msg, flush=True)
+
+
+def _validate_and_summarize_args(args):
+    """Run inexpensive consistency checks and print a brief config table.
+
+    Raises
+    ------
+    ValueError
+        If any sanity check fails so the job aborts early.
+    """
+
+    # ---------------- Consistency checks ----------------
+    checks = []
+
+    # hidden_size vs heads
+    if args.hidden_size % args.num_attention_heads != 0:
+        raise ValueError(
+            f"hidden_size ({args.hidden_size}) must be divisible by num_attention_heads ({args.num_attention_heads})."
+        )
+    checks.append("hidden_size/head ratio OK")
+
+    # global batch divisibility
+    if args.global_batch_size % args.data_parallel_size != 0:
+        raise ValueError(
+            f"global_batch_size ({args.global_batch_size}) must be divisible by data_parallel_size ({args.data_parallel_size})."
+        )
+    checks.append("batch sizes divisible")
+
+    # vocab vs TP size
+    if args.pad_vocab_size_to is not None and (
+        args.pad_vocab_size_to % args.tensor_model_parallel_size != 0
+    ):
+        raise ValueError(
+            f"pad_vocab_size_to ({args.pad_vocab_size_to}) must be divisible by tensor_model_parallel_size ({args.tensor_model_parallel_size})."
+        )
+    checks.append("vocab divisible by TP size")
+
+    # fp16 vs bf16 mutual exclusivity already handled earlier but we echo
+    checks.append("dtype flags consistent")
+
+    # ---------------- Summary table ----------------
+    header = (
+        "\n================  Megatron-DeepSpeed configuration summary  ================"
+    )
+    lines = [header]
+    lines.append(
+        f"GPUs total      : {args.world_size}  (DP={args.data_parallel_size}, TP={args.tensor_model_parallel_size}, PP={args.pipeline_model_parallel_size})"
+    )
+    lines.append(f"Model layers    : {args.num_layers}")
+    lines.append(
+        f"Hidden size     : {args.hidden_size}  (Heads={args.num_attention_heads}, Dim/head={args.hidden_size // args.num_attention_heads})"
+    )
+    lines.append(f"Seq length      : {args.seq_length}")
+    lines.append(
+        f"Global batch    : {args.global_batch_size}  (Micro={args.micro_batch_size})"
+    )
+    lines.append(
+        f"Precision       : {'fp16' if args.fp16 else ('bf16' if args.bf16 else 'fp32')}"
+    )
+    lines.append("Checks passed   : " + ", ".join(checks))
+    lines.append("==========================================================================\n")
+
+    _rank0_print("\n".join(lines))
diff --git a/megatron/training.py b/megatron/training.py
index 815426116..4660a5174 100644
--- a/megatron/training.py
+++ b/megatron/training.py
@@ -142,6 +142,10 @@ def pretrain(train_valid_test_dataset_provider,
     args.parameters_in_billions_no_embedding = get_parameters_in_billions(model, exclude_embeddings=True)
     print_rank_0(f'estimated model parameters: {get_parameters_in_billions(model)}')
     print_rank_0(f'estimated model parameters without embeddings: {get_parameters_in_billions(model, exclude_embeddings=True)}')
+    if args.rank == 0:
+        total_params_b = get_parameters_in_billions(model)
+        total_params = int(total_params_b * 1e9)
+        print(f"Model size: {round(total_params_b)}B ({total_params} params)", flush=True)
     timers('model-and-optimizer-setup').stop()
     print_datetime('after model, optimizer, and learning rate '
                    'scheduler are built')