torch-ucc's Introduction

Torch-UCC

The Torch-UCC plugin is a research prototype that enables collective communication over UCC for distributed PyTorch applications that load the plugin at application runtime.

Licenses

The torch-ucc plugin is licensed as:

BSD3

Contributor Agreement and Guidelines

In order to contribute to torch-ucc, please sign up with an appropriate Contributor Agreement. Follow these instructions when submitting contributions and changes.

Build

Required packages:

PyTorch
UCX
UCC

# Build
UCX_HOME=<PATH_TO_UCX> UCC_HOME=<PATH_TO_UCC> WITH_CUDA=<PATH_TO_CUDA> python setup.py install

UCX_HOME required, specifies path to UCX installation directory

UCC_HOME required, specifies path to UCC installation directory

WITH_CUDA optional, if WITH_CUDA=no is set then only CPU tensors are supported

Run

Configuration variables

Name	Values	Description
TORCH_UCC_ALLGATHER_BLOCKING_WAIT	0 or 1	Sets behavior of wait function for CUDA Allgather. Async collective in PyTorch
TORCH_UCC_ALLREDUCE_BLOCKING_WAIT	0 or 1	Sets behavior of wait function for CUDA Allreduce.
TORCH_UCC_ALLTOALL_BLOCKING_WAIT	0 or 1	Sets behavior of wait function for CUDA Alltoall.
TORCH_UCC_BCAST_BLOCKING_WAIT	0 or 1	Sets behavior of wait function for CUDA Bcast.

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=<PATH_TO_UCX>/lib:<PATH_TO_UCC>/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
python example.py

import torch
import torch.distributed as dist
import torch_ucc

....
dist.init_process_group('ucc', rank=comm_rank, world_size=comm_size)
....
dist.all_to_all_single(recv_tensor, send_tensor)

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