can sparse all-reduce keep efficiency with large number of gpu workers?
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Description
in my opinion, when the gpu cluster scaled up to several hundred workers, high sparsification ratios still generate significant communication overheads, which even worst than DenseAllReduce.
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No files, tests, or entry points are named. First locate the sparse all-reduce and DenseAllReduce implementations and any GPU-worker benchmarks, then compare communication overhead as the worker count reaches several hundred and document whether sparse all-reduce remains more efficient.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- distributed-systems, machine-learning, performance
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
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- Needs clarification
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- 20/100