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Why not use FP8 in large multi-node settings for BERT? #8

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soonjune opened this issue Feb 16, 2024 · 0 comments
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Why not use FP8 in large multi-node settings for BERT? #8

soonjune opened this issue Feb 16, 2024 · 0 comments

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I've noticed that there is --use_transformer_engine2 flag disabled for multi-node training greater than 8 in the configurations. I've also noticed that it is also slower when I enable transformer engine in this case. Can anyone point out why FP8 training is slower in this case?
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