Lightning-AI / Lightning-AI/pytorch-lightning
AWS Neuron support
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Description
## 🚀 Feature
https://awsdocs-neuron.readthedocs-hosted.com/en/latest/index.html
https://aws.amazon.com/machine-learning/neuron/
### Motivation
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/10/ec2-trn1-instances-high-performance-cost-effective-deep-learning-training/
### Pitch
Neuron is XLA based, so it'll probably be an accelerator and strategy. Their marketing materials also advertise that it supports FSDP, and Megatron-LM. It's unclear at this point whether we would have specialized Neuron-based implementations for those.
We would also need access to hardware for testing.
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Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reading the linked AWS Neuron documentation and the Neuron hardware requirements. Determine the integration points for an XLA-based accelerator or strategy, including whether FSDP or Megatron-LM need specialized implementations; completion would require an agreed design, implementation, and access to Neuron hardware for testing.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- aws, pytorch
- Domain
- cloud, machine-learning
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 20/100