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  <div class="section" id="design-doc-concurrent-programming-with-fluid">
<span id="design-doc-concurrent-programming-with-fluid"></span><h1>Design Doc: Concurrent Programming with Fluid<a class="headerlink" href="#design-doc-concurrent-programming-with-fluid" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h1>
<p>With PaddlePaddle Fluid, users describe a program other than a model.  The program is a <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/Paddle/blob/develop/paddle/framework/framework.proto"><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">ProgramDesc</span></code></a> protobuf message. TensorFlow/MxNet/Caffe2 applications generate protobuf messages too, but their protobuf messages represent the model, a graph of operators, but not the program that trains/uses the model.</p>
<p>Many know that when we program TensorFlow, we can specify the device on which each operator runs.  This allows us to create a concurrent/parallel AI application.   An interesting questions is <strong>how does a <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">ProgramDesc</span></code> represents a concurrent program?</strong></p>
<p>The answer relies on the fact that a <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">ProgramDesc</span></code> is similar to an abstract syntax tree (AST) that describes a program.  So users just program a concurrent program that they do with any concurrent programming language, e.g., <a class="reference external" href="https://golang.org">Go</a>.</p>
<div class="section" id="an-analogy">
<span id="an-analogy"></span><h2>An Analogy<a class="headerlink" href="#an-analogy" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>The following table compares concepts in Fluid and Go</p>
<p>| Go | Fluid |
|&#8212;-|&#8212;&#8212;-|
201
|user-defined functions | <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/Paddle/tree/develop/python/paddle/fluid">layers</a> |
202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360 361 362 363 364 365 366 367 368 369 370 371 372 373 374 375 376 377 378 379 380 381 382 383 384 385 386 387
| control-flow and built-in functions | <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/Paddle/tree/develop/paddle/operators">intrinsics/operators</a> |
| goroutines, channels | <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/Paddle/tree/develop/paddle/framework/thread_pool.h">class ThreadPool</a> |
| runtime | <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/Paddle/blob/develop/paddle/framework/executor.h">class Executor</a> |</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="an-example-concurrent-program">
<span id="an-example-concurrent-program"></span><h2>An Example Concurrent Program<a class="headerlink" href="#an-example-concurrent-program" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>To review all above concepts in an example, let us take a simple program and writes its distributed version.</p>
<p>Suppose that we want to parallelize a naive Fluid program (written in Go and calling Fluid&#8217;s Go binding) that multiplies two tensors.</p>
<div class="highlight-go"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="s">&quot;fluid&quot;</span>

<span class="kd">func</span> <span class="nx">paddlepaddle</span><span class="p">()</span> <span class="p">{</span>
  <span class="nx">X</span> <span class="p">=</span> <span class="nx">fluid</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">read</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="o">...</span><span class="p">)</span>
  <span class="nx">W</span> <span class="p">=</span> <span class="nx">fluid</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">Tensor</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="o">...</span><span class="p">)</span>
  <span class="nx">Y</span> <span class="p">=</span> <span class="nx">fluid</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">mult</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nx">X</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="nx">W</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="p">}</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>Please be aware that the Fluid&#8217;s Go binding provides the default <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">main</span></code> function, which calls the <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">paddlepaddle</span></code> function, which, in this case, is defined in above program and creates the following <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">ProgramDesc</span></code> message.</p>
<div class="highlight-protobuf"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="kd">message</span> <span class="nc">ProgramDesc</span> <span class="p">{</span>
  <span class="n">block</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">Block</span> <span class="p">{</span>
    <span class="na">vars</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="n">X</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">W</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">Y</span><span class="p">],</span>
    <span class="na">ops</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">[</span>
      <span class="n">read</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="na">output</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">X</span><span class="p">)</span>
      <span class="n">assign</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="na">input</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="o">...</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="na">output</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">W</span><span class="p">)</span>
      <span class="n">mult</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="na">input</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">{</span><span class="n">X</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">W</span><span class="p">},</span> <span class="na">output</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">Y</span><span class="p">)</span>
    <span class="p">],</span>
  <span class="p">}</span>
<span class="p">}</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>Then, the default <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">main</span></code> function calls <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">fluid.run()</span></code>, which creates an instance of the <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/Paddle/blob/develop/paddle/framework/executor.h"><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">class</span> <span class="pre">Executor</span></code></a> and calls <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Executor.Run(block[0])</span></code>, where <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">block[0]</span></code> is the first and only block defined in above <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">ProgramDesc</span></code> message.</p>
<p>The default <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">main</span></code> function is defined as follows:</p>
<div class="highlight-go"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="kd">func</span> <span class="nx">main</span><span class="p">()</span> <span class="p">{</span>
  <span class="nx">paddlepaddle</span><span class="p">()</span>
  <span class="nx">fluid</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">run</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="p">}</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="the-concurrent-version">
<span id="the-concurrent-version"></span><h2>The Concurrent Version<a class="headerlink" href="#the-concurrent-version" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>By parallelizing the above program, we could support very big tensor X by splitting into small pieces {x_1, x_2, ...} and sent each piece to worker process/node for parallel multiplication.</p>
<p>In this case, we can write a transpiler that takes a <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">ProgramDesc</span></code> message that represents the above example program and outputs two <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">ProgramDesc</span></code> messages, one for running on the master process/node, and the other one for worker processes/nodes.</p>
<div class="section" id="the-master-program">
<span id="the-master-program"></span><h3>The Master Program<a class="headerlink" href="#the-master-program" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h3>
<p>The master program could look like the following:</p>
<div class="highlight-protobuf"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>message ProgramDesc {
  block[0] = Block {
    vars = [X, L, Y],
    ops = [
      read(output = X)
      kube_get_workers_addrs(output = L)
      Y = tensor_array(len(L))
      parallel_for(input = X, output = Y, 
                   attrs = {L, block_id(1)}) # referring to block 1
    ]
  }
  
  block[1] = Block {
    parent = 0,
    vars = [x, y, index],
    ops = [
      slice(input = [X, index], output = x) # index is initialized by parallel_for
      send(input = x, attrs = L[index])
      recv(outputs = y, attrs = L[index])
      assign(input = y, output = Y[index])
    ]
  }
}
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>The equivalent Fluid program (calling the Go binding) is:</p>
<div class="highlight-go"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="kd">func</span> <span class="nx">main</span><span class="p">()</span> <span class="p">{</span>  <span class="c1">//// block 0</span>
  <span class="nx">X</span> <span class="p">=</span> <span class="nx">fluid</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">read</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="o">...</span><span class="p">)</span>
  <span class="nx">L</span> <span class="p">=</span> <span class="nx">fluid</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">k8s</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">get_worker_addrs</span><span class="p">()</span>
  <span class="nx">Y</span> <span class="p">=</span> <span class="nx">fluid</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">tensor_array</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nb">len</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nx">L</span><span class="p">))</span>
  <span class="nx">fluid</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">parallel_for</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nx">X</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="nx">L</span><span class="p">,</span> 
                     <span class="kd">func</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nx">index</span> <span class="kt">int</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="p">{</span>  <span class="c1">//// block 1</span>
                       <span class="nx">x</span> <span class="p">=</span> <span class="nx">X</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="nx">index</span><span class="p">]</span>
                       <span class="nx">fluid</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">send</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nx">L</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="nx">index</span><span class="p">],</span> <span class="nx">x</span><span class="p">)</span>
                       <span class="nx">y</span> <span class="p">=</span> <span class="nx">fluid</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">recv</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nx">L</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="nx">index</span><span class="p">])</span>
                       <span class="nx">Y</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="nx">index</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="p">=</span> <span class="nx">y</span>
                     <span class="p">})</span>
<span class="p">}</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>An explanation of the above program:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">fluid.k8s</span></code> is a package that provides access to Kubernetes API.</li>
<li><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">fluid.k8s.get_worker_addrs</span></code> returns the list of IP and ports of all pods of the current job except for the current one (the master pod).</li>
<li><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">fluid.tensor_array</span></code> creates a <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/Paddle/blob/develop/paddle/framework/lod_tensor_array.h">tensor array</a>.  <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">fluid.parallel_for</span></code> creates a <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">ParallelFor</span></code> intrinsic, which, when executed,<ol>
<li>creates <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">len(L)</span></code> scopes, each for the concurrent running of the sub-block (block 1 in this case), and initializes a variable named &#8220;index&#8221; in the scope to an integer value in the range <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">[0,</span> <span class="pre">len(L)-1]</span></code>, and</li>
<li>creates <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">len(L)</span></code> threads by calling into the <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">ThreadPool</span></code> singleton, each thread<ol>
<li>creates an Executor instance, and</li>
<li>calls <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Executor.Run(block)</span></code>, where <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">block</span></code> is block 1 as explained above.</li>
</ol>
</li>
</ol>
</li>
</ul>
<ol class="simple">
<li>Please be aware that block 1 is a sub-block of block 0, so ops in block 1 could refer to variables defined in block 0.</li>
</ol>
</div>
<div class="section" id="the-worker-program">
<span id="the-worker-program"></span><h3>The Worker Program<a class="headerlink" href="#the-worker-program" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h3>
<p>The worker program looks like</p>
<div class="highlight-go"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="kd">func</span> <span class="nx">main</span><span class="p">()</span> <span class="p">{</span>
  <span class="nx">W</span> <span class="p">=</span> <span class="nx">Tensor</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="o">...</span><span class="p">)</span>
  <span class="nx">x</span> <span class="p">=</span> <span class="nx">fluid</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">listen_and_do</span><span class="p">(</span>
        <span class="nx">fluid</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">k8s</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">self_addr</span><span class="p">(),</span>
        <span class="kd">func</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nx">input</span> <span class="nx">Tensor</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="p">{</span>
          <span class="nx">output</span> <span class="p">=</span> <span class="nx">fluid</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">mult</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nx">input</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="nx">W</span><span class="p">)</span>
        <span class="p">})</span>
<span class="p">}</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>where</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">fluid.listen_and_do</span></code> creates a <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">ListenAndDo</span></code> intrinsic, which, when executed,<ol>
<li>listens on the current pod&#8217;s IP address, as returned by <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">fliud.k8s.self_addr()</span></code>,</li>
<li>once a connection is established,<ol>
<li>creates a scope of two parameters, &#8220;input&#8221; and &#8220;output&#8221;,</li>
<li>reads a <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/Paddle/blob/develop/paddle/framework/variable.h">Fluid variable</a> and saves it into &#8220;input&#8221;,</li>
<li>creates an Executor instance and calls <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Executor.Run(block)</span></code>, where the block is generated by running the lambda specified as the second parameter of <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">fluid.listen_and_do</span></code>.</li>
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<span id="summarization"></span><h2>Summarization<a class="headerlink" href="#summarization" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>From the above example, we see that:</p>
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<li>Fluid enables the imperative programming paradigm by:<ol>
<li>letting users describe a program, but not a model (a sequence of layers, or a graph of operators), and</li>
<li>call the <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">fluid.run</span></code> function that runs the program implicitly.</li>
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<li>The program is described as a <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">ProgramDesc</span></code> protobuf message.</li>
<li>Function <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Executor.Run</span></code> takes a block, instead of a <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">ProgramDesc</span></code>, as its parameter.</li>
<li><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">fluid.run</span></code> calls <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Executor.Run</span></code> to run the first block in the <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">ProgramDesc</span></code> message.</li>
<li><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Executor.Run</span></code>&#8216;s implementation is extremely simple &#8211; it doesn&#8217;t plan the execution nor create threads; instead, it runs on the current thread and execute intrinsics/operators&#8217; <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Run</span></code> method sequentially as they appear in the <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Block.ops</span></code> array.</li>
<li>Intrinsics/operators&#8217; <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Run</span></code> method might create threads.  For example, the <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">ListenAndDo</span></code> operator creates a thread to handle each incoming request.</li>
<li>Threads are not necessarily OS thread; instead, they could be <a class="reference external" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_threads">green threads</a> managed by ThreadPool.  Multiple green threads might run on the same OS thread.  An example green threads is Go&#8217;s <a class="reference external" href="https://tour.golang.org/concurrency/1">goroutines</a>.</li>
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