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Does the open-source code for FastPersist include the last two optimizations mentioned in the paper, "parallelizing checkpoint writes over DP ranks and pipelining checkpoint writes"?

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Description

I followed the guide to perform checkpoint testing, and FastPersist performed very well. https://github.com/deepspeedai/DeepSpeedExamples/tree/master/deepnvme/model_checkpoint
I'd like to know if the open-source version of FastPersist includes the last two optimizations mentioned in the paper(https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.13768). If not, are there any plans to open-source these optimizations in the near future? Thank you.

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Start with the checkpoint testing guide in deepnvme/model_checkpoint and compare the open-source FastPersist implementation with the two optimizations described in the linked paper. Done means confirming whether parallelized checkpoint writes over DP ranks and pipelined writes are present, and documenting any stated plans to release them.

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python
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distributed-systems, machine-learning, performance
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Feature
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Needs clarification
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