作者|KIDGINBROOK
更新|潘丽晨
NCCL是英伟达开源的GPU通信库,支持集合通信和点对点通信。
看下官方给的一个demo:
#include <stdio.h>
#include "cuda_runtime.h"
#include "nccl.h"
#include "mpi.h"
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdint.h>
#define MPICHECK(cmd) do { \
int e = cmd; \
if( e != MPI_SUCCESS ) { \
printf("Failed: MPI error %s:%d '%d'\n", \
__FILE__,__LINE__, e); \
exit(EXIT_FAILURE); \
} \
} while(0)
#define CUDACHECK(cmd) do { \
cudaError_t e = cmd; \
if( e != cudaSuccess ) { \
printf("Failed: Cuda error %s:%d '%s'\n", \
__FILE__,__LINE__,cudaGetErrorString(e)); \
exit(EXIT_FAILURE); \
} \
} while(0)
#define NCCLCHECK(cmd) do { \
ncclResult_t r = cmd; \
if (r!= ncclSuccess) { \
printf("Failed, NCCL error %s:%d '%s'\n", \
__FILE__,__LINE__,ncclGetErrorString(r)); \
exit(EXIT_FAILURE); \
} \
} while(0)
static uint64_t getHostHash(const char* string) {
// Based on DJB2a, result = result * 33 ^ char
uint64_t result = 5381;
for (int c = 0; string[c] != '\0'; c++){
result = ((result << 5) + result) ^ string[c];
}
return result;
}
static void getHostName(char* hostname, int maxlen) {
gethostname(hostname, maxlen);
for (int i=0; i< maxlen; i++) {
if (hostname[i] == '.') {
hostname[i] = '\0';
return;
}
}
}
int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
int size = 32*1024*1024;
int myRank, nRanks, localRank = 0;
//initializing MPI
MPICHECK(MPI_Init(&argc, &argv));
MPICHECK(MPI_Comm_rank(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &myRank));
MPICHECK(MPI_Comm_size(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &nRanks));
//calculating localRank which is used in selecting a GPU
uint64_t hostHashs[nRanks];
char hostname[1024];
getHostName(hostname, 1024);
hostHashs[myRank] = getHostHash(hostname);
MPICHECK(MPI_Allgather(MPI_IN_PLACE, 0, MPI_DATATYPE_NULL, hostHashs, sizeof(uint64_t), MPI_BYTE, MPI_COMM_WORLD));
for (int p=0; p<nRanks; p++) {
if (p == myRank) break;
if (hostHashs[p] == hostHashs[myRank]) localRank++;
}
//each process is using two GPUs
int nDev = 2;
float** sendbuff = (float**)malloc(nDev * sizeof(float*));
float** recvbuff = (float**)malloc(nDev * sizeof(float*));
cudaStream_t* s = (cudaStream_t*)malloc(sizeof(cudaStream_t)*nDev);
//picking GPUs based on localRank
for (int i = 0; i < nDev; ++i) {
CUDACHECK(cudaSetDevice(localRank*nDev + i));
CUDACHECK(cudaMalloc(sendbuff + i, size * sizeof(float)));
CUDACHECK(cudaMalloc(recvbuff + i, size * sizeof(float)));
CUDACHECK(cudaMemset(sendbuff[i], 1, size * sizeof(float)));
CUDACHECK(cudaMemset(recvbuff[i], 0, size * sizeof(float)));
CUDACHECK(cudaStreamCreate(s+i));
}
ncclUniqueId id;
ncclComm_t comms[nDev];
//generating NCCL unique ID at one process and bro