Created by: yixinLi

I tried to follow the example in https://parl.readthedocs.io/en/latest/parallel_training/setup.html to setup my windows machine as a cluster. However the xparl start command failed and it seemed the get_ip_address function implemented in parl/utils/machine_info.py doesnt support windows.

my questions are threefold:

1. Does PARL distributed training support windows?
2. If it does support windows, then is the incompatibility of get_ip_address under windows the only reason why the example program failed in my case?
3. how should I fix get_ip_address? (i.e. "set ip address manually", as in the code comment). i am not familiar with socket communication so hopefully there is an easy way...