From 535245cd4c1856586efcc2995230d7285e75c954 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wu Yi Date: Thu, 10 May 2018 17:44:00 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] Add NCCL2 rdma train doc (#10561) * add rdma train doc * update by comment * fix table --- .../howto/cluster/nccl2_rdma_training.md | 110 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 110 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/fluid/howto/cluster/nccl2_rdma_training.md diff --git a/doc/fluid/howto/cluster/nccl2_rdma_training.md b/doc/fluid/howto/cluster/nccl2_rdma_training.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..cecd5c3a7a7 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/fluid/howto/cluster/nccl2_rdma_training.md @@ -0,0 +1,110 @@ +# Distributed Training with NCCL2 and RDMA + +When doing distributed multi-GPU training, network bandwith often becomes the +bottle neck. We introduce a way to use NCCL2 to do such training job to +achieve best performace. + +## Prepare Hardwares with RDMA and Multiple GPUs + +I'm using two Linux servers each of them is installed with 8 GPUs and +one 100Gb RDMA card. +Base environment is: + +* OS: CentOS 7.4 +* RDMA device: "Mellanox Technologies MT27700 Family [ConnectX-4]" +* Kernel version: `4.4.88-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64` +* Docker version: `1.12.6` +* Docker storage driver: `overlay2` +* IP addresses: 192.168.16.30,192.168.16.34 + +In general, the steps including: + +1. Install GPU drivers +1. Install RDMA drivers +1. Install "InfiniBand Support" +1. Use docker to run tests and make sure GPUs and RDMA can work inside + the container. + +I'll ommit section "Install GPU drivers" because we can find it easily +somewhere else. + +### Install RDMA drivers + +For my case, I've got two machines with device +"Mellanox Technologies MT27700 Family [ConnectX-4]" installed. The OS was +"CentOS 7.4" and I updated the kernel to version 4.4 so that docker can +work with latest overlay2 filesystem. + +***NOTE: before you start, make sure you have a way to get a console +of the server other than ssh because we may need to re-configure the +network device.*** + +1. Go to http://www.mellanox.com/page/products_dyn?product_family=26, + download `MLNX_OFED` software in the bottom of the page, and upload it + onto the server. +1. Run `./mlnxofedinstall --add-kernel-support` in the software package. +1. Run `/etc/init.d/openibd restart` to make everything work, note that + this operation may cause the network goes down if you are using this + RDMA device as default network device and use ssh to login the server. +1. Re-configure the network interface, for example: + `ifconfig eth2 192.168.16.30/20 up`, then add routes if needed: + `ip route add default via 192.168.16.1 dev eth2`. +1. Do the same thing on the other node. +1. Use `ping` to test if the two nodes have typical ICMP connection. +1. Use either `udaddy` or `ib_write_bw` to test the network connection is + ready and have the desired bandwith. + +### Prepare Docker Image to Run RDMA Programs + +1. Build a docker image using cuda base image like: `nvidia/cuda:8.0-cudnn5-devel-ubuntu16.04` and install paddlepaddle whl + package in it. +1. Start a docker container and mount GPU driver libs into it (you can + skip this step if you are using nvidia-docker). +1. Mount RDMA dirvers and libs into the docker image (see below section), + also `udaddy` and `ib_write_bw` if needed. +1. Mount GPU devices and RDMA devices into the container using `--device` + or just use privileged mode `--privileged`. +1. Start the container using host network mode: `--net=host` + +### RDMA Library Files Needed + +Usually, `MLNX_OFED` install latest supported libs under +`/usr/lib64/mlnx_ofed/valgrind`. Other libs also needed to run RDMA programs +is listed below. These libs must be mounted into the docker container. + +* Libs under `/usr/lib64/mlnx_ofed/valgrind` + * libibcm.so + * libibverbs.so + * libmlx4.so + * libmlx5.so + * libmlx5-rdmav2.so + * librdmacm.so +* Other libs: + * libnl-3.so.200 + * libnl-route-3.so.200 + * libnuma.so.1 + +## Start to Run the Training Job + +Setting NCCL environment variables to turn NCCL switches on and off: + + +| Env Name | Description | +| --- | --- | +| NCCL_SOCKET_IFNAME | The RDMA device, e.g. eth2 | +| NCCL_P2P_DISABLE | Set to 1 to disable P2P transfer between GPUs | +| NCCL_IB_DISABLE | Set to 1 to disable using RDMA | +| NCCL_IB_CUDA_SUPPORT | Set to 1 to enable GPU Direct if supported | +| NCCL_DEBUG | Set debug level: VERSION, WARN, INFO | + +My two servers are: `192.168.16.30,192.168.16.34`, On node 1, Run : + +```bash +PADDLE_TRAINER_ID=0 PADDLE_PORT=48372 PADDLE_WORKERS=192.168.16.30,192.168.16.34 POD_IP=192.168.16.30 stdbuf -oL python vgg16.py +``` + +On node 2, Run: + +```bash +PADDLE_TRAINER_ID=1 PADDLE_PORT=48372 PADDLE_WORKERS=192.168.16.30,192.168.16.34 POD_IP=192.168.16.34 stdbuf -oL python vgg16.py +``` -- GitLab