Poplar: A Distributed Training System that Extends Zero Redundancy Optimizer (ZeRO) with Heterogeneous-Aware Capabilities

Poplar: A Distributed Training System that Extends Zero Redundancy Optimizer (ZeRO) with Heterogeneous-Aware Capabilities

Practical Solutions for Distributed Training with Heterogeneous GPUs

Challenges in Model Training

Training large models requires significant memory and computing power, which can be addressed by effectively utilizing heterogeneous GPU resources.

Introducing Poplar

Poplar is a groundbreaking distributed training system that extends ZeRO to include heterogeneous GPUs, ensuring maximum global throughput and load balancing.

Performance Validation

Poplar outperformed other approaches in real-world heterogeneous GPU clusters, accelerating training speed and ensuring efficient cluster utilization.

Future Research

The team plans to investigate using ZeRO in heterogeneous clusters with network constraints and explore uneven distribution of model parameters among diverse devices.

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Benefits of Poplar

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