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<h1>Distributed training</h1>
<p>Lightning makes multi-gpu training and 16 bit training trivial.</p>
<p><em>Note:</em> <br />
None of the flags below require changing anything about your lightningModel definition. </p>
<hr />
<h4 id="choosing-a-backend">Choosing a backend</h4>
<p>Lightning supports two backends. DataParallel and DistributedDataParallel. Both can be used for single-node multi-GPU training.
For multi-node training you must use DistributedDataParallel. </p>
<h5 id="dataparallel-dp">DataParallel (dp)</h5>
<p>Splits a batch across multiple GPUs on the same node. Cannot be used for multi-node training. </p>
<h5 id="distributeddataparallel-ddp">DistributedDataParallel (ddp)</h5>
<p>Trains a copy of the model on each GPU and only syncs gradients. If used with DistributedSampler, each GPU trains
on a subset of the full dataset. </p>
<h5 id="distributeddataparallel-2-ddp2">DistributedDataParallel-2 (ddp2)</h5>
<p>Works like DDP, except each node trains a single copy of the model using ALL GPUs on that node.
Very useful when dealing with negative samples, etc...</p>
<p>You can toggle between each mode by setting this flag.</p>
<table class="codehilitetable"><tr><td class="linenos"><div class="linenodiv"><pre> 1
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11</pre></div></td><td class="code"><div class="codehilite"><pre><span></span><span class="c1"># DEFAULT (when using single GPU or no GPUs)</span>
<span class="n">trainer</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">Trainer</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">distributed_backend</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="bp">None</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># Change to DataParallel (gpus &gt; 1)</span>
<span class="n">trainer</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">Trainer</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">distributed_backend</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s1">&#39;dp&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># change to distributed data parallel (gpus &gt; 1)</span>
<span class="n">trainer</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">Trainer</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">distributed_backend</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s1">&#39;ddp&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># change to distributed data parallel (gpus &gt; 1)</span>
<span class="n">trainer</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">Trainer</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">distributed_backend</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s1">&#39;ddp2&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
</pre></div>
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<p>If you request multiple nodes, the back-end will auto-switch to ddp.
We recommend you use DistributedDataparallel even for single-node multi-GPU training. It is MUCH faster than DP but <em>may</em>
have configuration issues depending on your cluster.</p>
<p>For a deeper understanding of what lightning is doing, feel free to read <a href="https://medium.com/@_willfalcon/9-tips-for-training-lightning-fast-neural-networks-in-pytorch-8e63a502f565">this guide</a>. </p>
<hr />
<h4 id="distributed-and-16-bit-precision">Distributed and 16-bit precision.</h4>
<p>Due to an issue with apex and DistributedDataParallel (PyTorch and NVIDIA issue), Lightning does
not allow 16-bit and DP training. We tried to get this to work, but it's an issue on their end. </p>
<p>Below are the possible configurations we support. </p>
<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>1 GPU</th>
<th>1+ GPUs</th>
<th>DP</th>
<th>DDP</th>
<th>16-bit</th>
<th>command</th>
</tr>
</thead>
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<tr>
<td>Y</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td><code>Trainer(gpus=1)</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Y</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td>Y</td>
<td><code>Trainer(gpus=1, use_amp=True)</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td>Y</td>
<td>Y</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td><code>Trainer(gpus=k, distributed_backend='dp')</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td>Y</td>
<td></td>
<td>Y</td>
<td></td>
<td><code>Trainer(gpus=k, distributed_backend='ddp')</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td>Y</td>
<td></td>
<td>Y</td>
<td>Y</td>
<td><code>Trainer(gpus=k, distributed_backend='ddp', use_amp=True)</code></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>You also have the option of specifying which GPUs to use by passing a list: </p>
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<span class="n">Trainer</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">gpus</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">k</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># Above is equivalent to </span>
<span class="n">Trainer</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">gpus</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="nb">list</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nb">range</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">k</span><span class="p">)))</span>
<span class="c1"># You specify which GPUs (don&#39;t use if running on cluster) </span>
<span class="n">Trainer</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">gpus</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">])</span>
<span class="c1"># can also be a string</span>
<span class="n">Trainer</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">gpus</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s1">&#39;0, 1&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># can also be -1 or &#39;-1&#39;, this uses all available GPUs</span>
<span class="c1"># this is equivalent to list(range(torch.cuda.available_devices()))</span>
<span class="n">Trainer</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">gpus</span><span class="o">=-</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)</span>
</pre></div>
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<hr />
<h4 id="cuda-flags">CUDA flags</h4>
<p>CUDA flags make certain GPUs visible to your script.
Lightning sets these for you automatically, there's NO NEED to do this yourself.</p>
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<span class="c1"># os.environ[&quot;CUDA_DEVICE_ORDER&quot;] = &quot;PCI_BUS_ID&quot;</span>
<span class="c1"># os.environ[&quot;CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES&quot;] = &quot;0&quot;</span>
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<p>However, when using a cluster, Lightning will NOT set these flags (and you should not either).
SLURM will set these for you. </p>
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<h4 id="16-bit-mixed-precision">16-bit mixed precision</h4>
<p>16 bit precision can cut your memory footprint by half. If using volta architecture GPUs it can give a dramatic training speed-up as well. <br />
First, install apex (if install fails, look <a href="https://github.com/NVIDIA/apex">here</a>):</p>
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$ <span class="nb">cd</span> apex
<span class="c1"># ------------------------</span>
<span class="c1"># OPTIONAL: on your cluster you might need to load cuda 10 or 9</span>
<span class="c1"># depending on how you installed PyTorch</span>
<span class="c1"># see available modules</span>
module avail
<span class="c1"># load correct cuda before install</span>
module load cuda-10.0
<span class="c1"># ------------------------</span>
<span class="c1"># make sure you&#39;ve loaded a cuda version &gt; 4.0 and &lt; 7.0</span>
module load gcc-6.1.0
$ pip install -v --no-cache-dir --global-option<span class="o">=</span><span class="s2">&quot;--cpp_ext&quot;</span> --global-option<span class="o">=</span><span class="s2">&quot;--cuda_ext&quot;</span> ./
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<p>then set this use_amp to True.</p>
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<span class="n">trainer</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">Trainer</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">amp_level</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s1">&#39;O2&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">use_amp</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="bp">False</span><span class="p">)</span>
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<h4 id="single-gpu">Single-gpu</h4>
<p>Make sure you're on a GPU machine. </p>
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<span class="n">trainer</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">Trainer</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">gpus</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)</span>
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<hr />
<h4 id="multi-gpu">multi-gpu</h4>
<p>Make sure you're on a GPU machine. You can set as many GPUs as you want.
In this setting, the model will run on all 8 GPUs at once using DataParallel under the hood.</p>
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<span class="n">trainer</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">Trainer</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">gpus</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">8</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">distributed_backend</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s1">&#39;dp&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># RECOMMENDED use DistributedDataParallel</span>
<span class="n">trainer</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">Trainer</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">gpus</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">8</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">distributed_backend</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s1">&#39;ddp&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
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<h4 id="multi-node">Multi-node</h4>
<p>Multi-node training is easily done by specifying these flags. </p>
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<p>You must configure your job submission script correctly for the trainer to work. Here is an example
script for the above trainer configuration. </p>
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<span class="c1"># SLURM SUBMIT SCRIPT</span>
<span class="c1">#SBATCH --nodes=12</span>
<span class="c1">#SBATCH --gres=gpu:8</span>
<span class="c1">#SBATCH --ntasks-per-node=8</span>
<span class="c1">#SBATCH --mem=0</span>
<span class="c1">#SBATCH --time=0-02:00:00</span>
<span class="c1"># activate conda env</span>
conda activate my_env
<span class="c1"># -------------------------</span>
<span class="c1"># OPTIONAL</span>
<span class="c1"># -------------------------</span>
<span class="c1"># debugging flags (optional)</span>
<span class="c1"># export NCCL_DEBUG=INFO</span>
<span class="c1"># export PYTHONFAULTHANDLER=1</span>
<span class="c1"># PyTorch comes with prebuilt NCCL support... but if you have issues with it</span>
<span class="c1"># you might need to load the latest version from your modules</span>
<span class="c1"># module load NCCL/2.4.7-1-cuda.10.0</span>
<span class="c1"># on your cluster you might need these:</span>
<span class="c1"># set the network interface</span>
<span class="c1"># export NCCL_SOCKET_IFNAME=^docker0,lo</span>
<span class="c1"># -------------------------</span>
<span class="c1"># random port between 12k and 20k</span>
<span class="nb">export</span> <span class="nv">MASTER_PORT</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="k">$((</span><span class="m">12000</span> <span class="o">+</span> RANDOM <span class="o">%</span> <span class="m">20000</span><span class="k">))</span>
<span class="c1"># run script from above</span>
python my_main_file.py
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<p><strong>NOTE:</strong> When running in DDP mode, any errors in your code will show up as an NCCL issue.
Set the <code>NCCL_DEBUG=INFO</code> flag to see the ACTUAL error.</p>
<p>Finally, make sure to add a distributed sampler to your dataset. The distributed sampler copies a
portion of your dataset onto each GPU. (World_size = gpus_per_node * nb_nodes). </p>
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<span class="n">dataset</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">myDataset</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="n">dataloader</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">Dataloader</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">dataset</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># becomes:</span>
<span class="n">dataset</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">myDataset</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="n">dist_sampler</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">torch</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">utils</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">data</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">distributed</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">DistributedSampler</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">dataset</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">dataloader</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">Dataloader</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">dataset</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">sampler</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">dist_sampler</span><span class="p">)</span>
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<h4 id="auto-slurm-job-submission">Auto-slurm-job-submission</h4>
<p>Instead of manually building SLURM scripts, you can use the <a href="https://williamfalcon.github.io/test-tube/hpc/SlurmCluster/">SlurmCluster object</a> to
do this for you. The SlurmCluster can also run a grid search if you pass in a <a href="https://williamfalcon.github.io/test-tube/hyperparameter_optimization/HyperOptArgumentParser/">HyperOptArgumentParser</a>.</p>
<p>Here is an example where you run a grid search of 9 combinations of hyperparams.
<a href="https://github.com/williamFalcon/pytorch-lightning/tree/master/pl_examples/new_project_templates/multi_node_examples">The full examples are here</a>.</p>
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<span class="c1"># this generates 9 experiments (lr=1e-3, layers=16), (lr=1e-3, layers=32), (lr=1e-3, layers=64), ... (lr=1e-1, layers=64)</span>
<span class="n">parser</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">HyperOptArgumentParser</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">strategy</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s1">&#39;grid_search&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">add_help</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="bp">False</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">parser</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">opt_list</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">&#39;--learning_rate&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">default</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mf">0.001</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="nb">type</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="nb">float</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">options</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mf">1e-3</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mf">1e-2</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mf">1e-1</span><span class="p">],</span> <span class="n">tunable</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="bp">True</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">parser</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">opt_list</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">&#39;--layers&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">default</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="nb">type</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="nb">float</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">options</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">16</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">32</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">64</span><span class="p">],</span> <span class="n">tunable</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="bp">True</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">hyperparams</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">parser</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">parse_args</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="c1"># Slurm cluster submits 9 jobs, each with a set of hyperparams</span>
<span class="n">cluster</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">SlurmCluster</span><span class="p">(</span>
<span class="n">hyperparam_optimizer</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">hyperparams</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="n">log_path</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s1">&#39;/some/path/to/save&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># OPTIONAL FLAGS WHICH MAY BE CLUSTER DEPENDENT</span>
<span class="c1"># which interface your nodes use for communication</span>
<span class="n">cluster</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">add_command</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">&#39;export NCCL_SOCKET_IFNAME=^docker0,lo&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># see output of the NCCL connection process</span>
<span class="c1"># NCCL is how the nodes talk to each other</span>
<span class="n">cluster</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">add_command</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">&#39;export NCCL_DEBUG=INFO&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># setting a master port here is a good idea.</span>
<span class="n">cluster</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">add_command</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">&#39;export MASTER_PORT=</span><span class="si">%r</span><span class="s1">&#39;</span> <span class="o">%</span> <span class="n">PORT</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># ************** DON&#39;T FORGET THIS ***************</span>
<span class="c1"># MUST load the latest NCCL version</span>
<span class="n">cluster</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">load_modules</span><span class="p">([</span><span class="s1">&#39;NCCL/2.4.7-1-cuda.10.0&#39;</span><span class="p">])</span>
<span class="c1"># configure cluster</span>
<span class="n">cluster</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">per_experiment_nb_nodes</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">12</span>
<span class="n">cluster</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">per_experiment_nb_gpus</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">8</span>
<span class="n">cluster</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">add_slurm_cmd</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">cmd</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s1">&#39;ntasks-per-node&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">value</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">8</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">comment</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s1">&#39;1 task per gpu&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># submit a script with 9 combinations of hyper params</span>
<span class="c1"># (lr=1e-3, layers=16), (lr=1e-3, layers=32), (lr=1e-3, layers=64), ... (lr=1e-1, layers=64)</span>
<span class="n">cluster</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">optimize_parallel_cluster_gpu</span><span class="p">(</span>
<span class="n">main</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="n">nb_trials</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">9</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="c1"># how many permutations of the grid search to run</span>
<span class="n">job_name</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s1">&#39;name_for_squeue&#39;</span>
<span class="p">)</span>
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<p>The other option is that you generate scripts on your own via a bash command or use another library...</p>
<hr />
<h4 id="self-balancing-architecture">Self-balancing architecture</h4>
<p>Here lightning distributes parts of your module across available GPUs to optimize for speed and memory. </p>
<p>COMING SOON.</p>
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