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About this paper
Xin Zhang, Beilei Sun, Teng Su, Qinghua Zhang, Chong Bao, Lei Chen, Xuefeng Jin
The HyperParallel framework, implemented within MindSpore, optimizes large-scale AI model training and inference on supernode architectures by providing automated hierarchical memory management, fine-grained MPMD parallelism, and declarative parallel strategy specification. This approach improves training performance by approximately 20% and reduces parallelization time for new algorithms to less than one day.
Key insights
- Treating the entire supernode as a single logical computing entity, with hardware-aware orchestration, simplifies complex parallel programming and maximizes hardware utilization.
- Automated, compiler-integrated memory management that overlaps memory operations with computation can effectively hide latency and alleviate HBM constraints in large-scale models.
- Fine-grained, dynamic Multiple Program, Multiple Data (MPMD) parallelism is essential for efficiently handling heterogeneous and sparse computational loads in modern AI models, mitigating load imbalances and improving resource utilization.
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