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Pipeline comparison with Megatron

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Description

I realized that Megatron now also provides pipeline parallelism implementation, do you have any comparison with their implementation? For example, any benchmark, or design difference? Also, if it is possible, can you also comment on the implementation on FairScale? How would you evaluate the extendibility of these three repos on further researching on the direction on degree of parallelism? Thanks!

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Start by comparing DeepSpeed's pipeline-parallelism implementation with the corresponding Megatron and FairScale implementations. Investigate benchmark results, design differences, and extensibility for different parallelism degrees; done would be a documented comparison with conclusions on future research directions.

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Tech stack
python, pytorch
Domain
distributed-systems, machine-learning
Issue type
Feature
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5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
15/100

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