Optimizing Distributed Training on Frontier for Large Language Models

no code implementations • 20 Dec 2023 • Sajal Dash, Isaac Lyngaas, Junqi Yin, Xiao Wang, Romain Egele, Guojing Cong, Feiyi Wang, Prasanna Balaprakash

For the training of the 175 Billion parameter model and the 1 Trillion parameter model, we achieved $100\%$ weak scaling efficiency on 1024 and 3072 MI250X GPUs, respectively.

Computational Efficiency

Ultra-Long Sequence Distributed Transformer

no code implementations • 4 Nov 2023 • Xiao Wang, Isaac Lyngaas, Aristeidis Tsaris, Peng Chen, Sajal Dash, Mayanka Chandra Shekar, Tao Luo, Hong-Jun Yoon, Mohamed Wahib, John Gouley

This paper presents a novel and efficient distributed training method, the Long Short-Sequence Transformer (LSS Transformer), for training transformer with long sequences.

DeepSpeed4Science Initiative: Enabling Large-Scale Scientific Discovery through Sophisticated AI System Technologies

no code implementations • 6 Oct 2023 • Shuaiwen Leon Song, Bonnie Kruft, Minjia Zhang, Conglong Li, Shiyang Chen, Chengming Zhang, Masahiro Tanaka, Xiaoxia Wu, Jeff Rasley, Ammar Ahmad Awan, Connor Holmes, Martin Cai, Adam Ghanem, Zhongzhu Zhou, Yuxiong He, Pete Luferenko, Divya Kumar, Jonathan Weyn, Ruixiong Zhang, Sylwester Klocek, Volodymyr Vragov, Mohammed AlQuraishi, Gustaf Ahdritz, Christina Floristean, Cristina Negri, Rao Kotamarthi, Venkatram Vishwanath, Arvind Ramanathan, Sam Foreman, Kyle Hippe, Troy Arcomano, Romit Maulik, Maxim Zvyagin, Alexander Brace, Bin Zhang, Cindy Orozco Bohorquez, Austin Clyde, Bharat Kale, Danilo Perez-Rivera, Heng Ma, Carla M. Mann, Michael Irvin, J. Gregory Pauloski, Logan Ward, Valerie Hayot, Murali Emani, Zhen Xie, Diangen Lin, Maulik Shukla, Ian Foster, James J. Davis, Michael E. Papka, Thomas Brettin, Prasanna Balaprakash, Gina Tourassi, John Gounley, Heidi Hanson, Thomas E Potok, Massimiliano Lupo Pasini, Kate Evans, Dan Lu, Dalton Lunga, Junqi Yin, Sajal Dash, Feiyi Wang, Mallikarjun Shankar, Isaac Lyngaas, Xiao Wang, Guojing Cong, Pei Zhang, Ming Fan, Siyan Liu, Adolfy Hoisie, Shinjae Yoo, Yihui Ren, William Tang, Kyle Felker, Alexey Svyatkovskiy, Hang Liu, Ashwin Aji, Angela Dalton, Michael Schulte, Karl Schulz, Yuntian Deng, Weili Nie, Josh Romero, Christian Dallago, Arash Vahdat, Chaowei Xiao, Thomas Gibbs, Anima Anandkumar, Rick Stevens

In the upcoming decade, deep learning may revolutionize the natural sciences, enhancing our capacity to model and predict natural occurrences.