lightning/examples/fabric/tensor_parallel

Tensor Parallel and 2D Parallel

This example shows how to apply tensor-parallelism to your model (here Llama 3 7B) with the ModelParallelStrategy, and how it can be combined with FSDP (2D parallelism). PyTorch 2.3+ and a machine with at least 4 GPUs and 24 GB memory each are required to run this example.

pip install 'torch>=2.3'

Navigate to this example folder and run the training script:

cd examples/fabric/tensor_parallel
python train.py

You should see an output like this:

Initializing distributed: GLOBAL_RANK: 0, MEMBER: 1/4
Initializing distributed: GLOBAL_RANK: 3, MEMBER: 4/4
Initializing distributed: GLOBAL_RANK: 2, MEMBER: 3/4
Initializing distributed: GLOBAL_RANK: 1, MEMBER: 2/4
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distributed_backend=nccl
All distributed processes registered. Starting with 4 processes
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Number of model parameters: 6.7 B
Starting training ...
Iteration 0 complete
Iteration 1 complete
Iteration 2 complete
Iteration 3 complete
Iteration 4 complete
Iteration 5 complete
Iteration 6 complete
Iteration 7 complete
Saving a (distributed) checkpoint ...
Training successfully completed!
Peak memory usage: 17.95 GB

!NOTE

The ModelParallelStrategy is experimental and subject to change. Report issues on GitHub.