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Accelerate Model Training with PyTorch 2.X

Accelerate Model Training with PyTorch 2.X

By : Maicon Melo Alves
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Accelerate Model Training with PyTorch 2.X

Accelerate Model Training with PyTorch 2.X

4.4 (10)
By: Maicon Melo Alves

Overview of this book

This book, written by an HPC expert with over 25 years of experience, guides you through enhancing model training performance using PyTorch. Here you’ll learn how model complexity impacts training time and discover performance tuning levels to expedite the process, as well as utilize PyTorch features, specialized libraries, and efficient data pipelines to optimize training on CPUs and accelerators. You’ll also reduce model complexity, adopt mixed precision, and harness the power of multicore systems and multi-GPU environments for distributed training. By the end, you'll be equipped with techniques and strategies to speed up training and focus on building stunning models.
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Part 1: Paving the Way
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Part 2: Going Faster
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Part 3: Going Distributed

Implementing distributed training on multiple GPUs

In this section, we’ll show you how to implement and run distributed training on multiple GPUs using NCCL, the de facto communication backend for NVIDIA GPUs. We’ll start by providing a brief overview of NCCL, after which we will learn how to code and launch distributed training in a multi-GPU environment.

The NCCL communication backend

NCCL stands for NVIDIA Collective Communications Library. As its name suggests, NCCL is a library that provides optimized collective operations for NVIDIA GPUs. Therefore, we can use NCCL to execute collective routines such as broadcast, reduce, and the so-called all-reduce operation. Roughly speaking, NCCL plays the same role as oneCCL does for Intel CPUs.

PyTorch supports NCCL natively, which means that the default installation of PyTorch for NVIDIA GPUs already comes with a built-in NCCL version. NCCL works on single or multiple machines and supports the usage of high-performance...

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