Azure/msccl

Question about using acceleraters from brands other than NVIDIA and AMD;

JASUEXIII opened this issue · 2 comments

JASUEXIII commented

Hi, I'm fresh to this collective communication area. I've read the paper for SCCL and find it interesting and promising to solve my problem. I am considering using SCCL to generate all-reduce strategies for my distributed systems, which require efficient data aggregation. However, I am not clear whether SCCL-tools can produce human-readable descriptions of data movement steps, or if they solely generate code specific to NVIDIA's environments. Could you provide some clarification on this?

Andyli1007 commented

The SCCL (Scalable Collective Communication Library) generates strategy description files based on XML. These XML files are platform-independent and XML is inherently human-readable. Therefore, SCCL is capable of generating descriptions of data movement steps that are understandable. Currently, SCCL does not provide any other graphical methods for describing strategies.

JASUEXIII commented

The SCCL (Scalable Collective Communication Library) generates strategy description files based on XML. These XML files are platform-independent and XML is inherently human-readable. Therefore, SCCL is capable of generating descriptions of data movement steps that are understandable. Currently, SCCL does not provide any other graphical methods for describing strategies.

Thanks for the prompt response :-)