diff --git a/scripts/train/train.py b/scripts/train/train.py
index ab3addbb07..180b8ef22b 100644
--- a/scripts/train/train.py
+++ b/scripts/train/train.py
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@
 from composer import Trainer
 from composer.core import Evaluator
 from composer.core.callback import Callback
+from composer.profiler import (JSONTraceHandler, Profiler, TraceHandler,
+                               cyclic_schedule)
 from composer.utils import dist, get_device, reproducibility
 from omegaconf import DictConfig, ListConfig
 from omegaconf import OmegaConf as om
@@ -458,6 +460,33 @@ def main(cfg: DictConfig) -> Trainer:
         for name, logger_cfg in logger_configs.items()
     ] if logger_configs else None
 
+    # Profiling
+    profiler: Optional[Profiler] = None
+    profiler_cfg: Optional[DictConfig] = pop_config(cfg,
+                                                    'profiler',
+                                                    must_exist=False,
+                                                    convert=False,
+                                                    default_value=None)
+    if profiler_cfg:
+        profiler_schedule_cfg: Dict = pop_config(profiler_cfg,
+                                                 'schedule',
+                                                 must_exist=True,
+                                                 convert=True)
+        profiler_schedule = cyclic_schedule(**profiler_schedule_cfg)
+        # Only support json trace handler
+        profiler_trace_handlers: List[TraceHandler] = []
+        profiler_trace_cfg: Optional[Dict] = pop_config(profiler_cfg,
+                                                        'json_trace_handler',
+                                                        must_exist=False,
+                                                        default_value=None,
+                                                        convert=True)
+        if profiler_trace_cfg:
+            profiler_trace_handlers.append(
+                JSONTraceHandler(**profiler_trace_cfg))
+        profiler = Profiler(**profiler_cfg,
+                            trace_handlers=profiler_trace_handlers,
+                            schedule=profiler_schedule)
+
     # Callbacks
     callbacks: List[Callback] = [
         build_callback(str(name), callback_cfg)
@@ -576,6 +605,7 @@ def main(cfg: DictConfig) -> Trainer:
         autoresume=autoresume,
         python_log_level=python_log_level,
         dist_timeout=dist_timeout,
+        profiler=profiler,
     )
 
     print('Logging config')
diff --git a/scripts/train/yamls/pretrain/mpt-small-cpu.yaml b/scripts/train/yamls/pretrain/mpt-small-cpu.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..cc04f11e44
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/train/yamls/pretrain/mpt-small-cpu.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,119 @@
+data_local: ./my-copy-c4
+data_remote: # If blank, files must be present in data_local
+max_seq_len: 128
+global_seed: 17
+
+# Run Name
+run_name: mpt_causal_lm_cpu # If left blank, will be read from env var $RUN_NAME
+
+# Model
+model:
+  name: mpt_causal_lm
+  init_device: cpu
+  d_model: 16
+  n_heads: 4
+  n_layers: 4
+  expansion_ratio: 5
+  max_seq_len: ${max_seq_len}
+  vocab_size: 50368
+  attn_config:
+    attn_impl: torch
+  loss_fn: torch_crossentropy
+
+# Tokenizer
+tokenizer:
+  name: EleutherAI/gpt-neox-20b
+  kwargs:
+    model_max_length: ${max_seq_len}
+
+# Dataloaders
+train_loader:
+  name: text
+  dataset:
+    local: ${data_local}
+    remote: ${data_remote}
+    split: train
+    shuffle: true
+    max_seq_len: ${max_seq_len}
+    shuffle_seed: ${global_seed}
+  drop_last: true
+  num_workers: 2
+
+eval_loader:
+  name: text
+  dataset:
+    local: ${data_local}
+    remote: ${data_remote}
+    split: val
+    shuffle: false
+    max_seq_len: ${max_seq_len}
+    shuffle_seed: ${global_seed}
+  drop_last: false
+  num_workers: 2
+
+# Optimization
+scheduler:
+  name: cosine_with_warmup
+  t_warmup: 100ba
+  alpha_f: 0.1
+
+optimizer:
+  name: decoupled_adamw
+  lr: 6.0e-4
+  betas:
+  - 0.9
+  - 0.95
+  eps: 1.0e-08
+  weight_decay: 0.0
+
+algorithms:
+  gradient_clipping:
+    clipping_type: norm
+    clipping_threshold: 1.0
+
+max_duration: 10ba
+eval_interval: 5ba
+eval_first: false
+eval_subset_num_batches: 5
+global_train_batch_size: 256
+autoresume: false
+
+# System
+seed: ${global_seed}
+device_eval_batch_size: 16
+device_train_microbatch_size: 16
+# device_train_microbatch_size: auto
+precision: fp32
+
+# FSDP
+fsdp_config:
+  sharding_strategy: FULL_SHARD
+  mixed_precision: PURE
+  activation_checkpointing: false
+  activation_checkpointing_reentrant: false
+  activation_cpu_offload: false
+  limit_all_gathers: true
+  verbose: false
+
+# Logging
+progress_bar: false
+log_to_console: true
+console_log_interval: 1ba
+
+callbacks:
+  speed_monitor:
+    window_size: 10
+  lr_monitor: {}
+  memory_monitor: {}
+  runtime_estimator: {}
+
+# Checkpoint to local filesystem or remote object store
+save_overwrite: true
+save_num_checkpoints_to_keep: 1  # Important, this cleans up checkpoints saved to DISK
+# save_interval: 500ba
+# save_folder: ./{run_name}/checkpoints
+# save_folder: s3://my-bucket/my-folder/{run_name}/checkpoints
+
+# Load from local filesystem or remote object store
+# load_path: ./gpt-125m/checkpoints/latest-rank{rank}.pt
+# load_path: s3://my-bucket/my-folder/gpt-125m/checkpoints/latest-rank{rank}.pt