Great proposal, really looking forward to it!

Qin, Zhennan <zhennan....@intel.com> schrieb am Mi., 6. Nov. 2019, 07:59:

> Hi Yimin,
>
> Welcome to make contribution to MXNet project!
>
> From <https://github.com/bytedance/byteps/blob/master/README.md>
> https://github.com/bytedance/byteps/blob/master/README.md I found another
> limitation that isn't shown in your proposal:
>
> BytePS does not support pure CPU training for now. One reason is that the
> cheap PS assumption<
> https://github.com/bytedance/byteps/blob/master/docs/rationale.md> of
> BytePS do not hold for CPU training. Consequently, you need CUDA and NCCL
> to build and run BytePS.
>
> I have a couple of question for this: How's the status of CPU training
> support? If CPU training isn't supported yet, what's the challenge to
> support it? Do you have a plan to support it?
>
> Thanks,
> Zhennan
>
> On Wed, 2019-11-06 at 12:14 +0800, Yimin Jiang wrote:
>
> Hi MXNet Community,
>
>
> BytePS (https://github.com/bytedance/byteps) is a high-performance,
>
> cross-framework architecture for distributed training. BytePS developers
>
> are planning to integrate a part of BytePS into MXNet. The link below is
>
> the proposal. Feedbacks are welcome.
>
>
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MXNET/BytePS-MXNet+Integration
>
>
>
> Thank you,
>
> Yimin Jiang
>
>

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