Lightning-AI / Lightning-AI/pytorch-lightning

Please allow different batch sizes per gpu in ddp

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Description

## 🚀 Feature

I propose adding instead of batch size a dictionary with batch size per GPU, for example {"cuda0":4, "cuda1", 6}

### Motivation

I have gv100 (32gb) and 3090 (24gb). using the current muti gpu strategies, i can only use 24gb of memory from the gv100

### Pitch

explained above

### Alternatives

Automatic batch size sizing would be really nice as well for multi gpu, with different batch on different gpus

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First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
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  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
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Research direction

Start by tracing the DDP and multi-GPU batch-size configuration in the repository. Review how the current strategy determines batch size and how device names are exposed. Done means users can provide different batch sizes for individual GPUs, with coverage for the heterogeneous-GPU case described in the issue.

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Assessment

Tech stack
python, pytorch
Domain
distributed-systems, machine-learning
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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