Project-MONAI / Project-MONAI/MONAI

Specify `rank ID` for component to run only on some ranks

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Feature request
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Description

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
For multi-gpu training / inference, many some components only need to execute on specified ranks, so it would be nice to support the config for target rank ID.

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Research direction

No file, test, or entry point is named. Start by locating the component configuration and multi-GPU execution paths, then clarify which components should accept a target rank and how completion will be verified across ranks.

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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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