Tenplex: Dynamic Parallelism for Deep Learning using Parallelizable Tensor Collections

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Autores principales: Wagenländer, Marcel, Li, Guo, Zhao, Bo, Mai, Luo, Pietzuch, Peter
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Publicado: 2023
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author Wagenländer, Marcel
Li, Guo
Zhao, Bo
Mai, Luo
Pietzuch, Peter
author_facet Wagenländer, Marcel
Li, Guo
Zhao, Bo
Mai, Luo
Pietzuch, Peter
contents Deep learning (DL) jobs use multi-dimensional parallelism, i.e. combining data, model, and pipeline parallelism, to use large GPU clusters efficiently. Long-running jobs may experience changes to their GPU allocation: (i) resource elasticity during training adds or removes GPUs; (ii) hardware maintenance may require redeployment on different GPUs; and (iii) GPU failures force jobs to run with fewer devices. Current DL frameworks tie jobs to a set of GPUs and thus lack support for these scenarios. In particular, they cannot change the multi-dimensional parallelism of an already-running job in an efficient and model-independent way. We describe Scalai, a state management library for DL systems that enables jobs to change their parallelism dynamically after the GPU allocation is updated at runtime. Scalai achieves this through a new abstraction, a parallelizable tensor collection (PTC), that externalizes the job state during training. After a GPU change, Scalai uses the PTC to transform the job state: the PTC repartitions the dataset state under data parallelism and exposes it to DL workers through a virtual file system; and the PTC obtains the model state as partitioned checkpoints and transforms them to reflect the new parallelization configuration. For efficiency, Scalai executes PTC transformations in parallel with minimum data movement between workers. Our experiments show that Scalai enables DL jobs to support dynamic parallelization with low overhead.
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spellingShingle Tenplex: Dynamic Parallelism for Deep Learning using Parallelizable Tensor Collections
Wagenländer, Marcel
Li, Guo
Zhao, Bo
Mai, Luo
Pietzuch, Peter
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Deep learning (DL) jobs use multi-dimensional parallelism, i.e. combining data, model, and pipeline parallelism, to use large GPU clusters efficiently. Long-running jobs may experience changes to their GPU allocation: (i) resource elasticity during training adds or removes GPUs; (ii) hardware maintenance may require redeployment on different GPUs; and (iii) GPU failures force jobs to run with fewer devices. Current DL frameworks tie jobs to a set of GPUs and thus lack support for these scenarios. In particular, they cannot change the multi-dimensional parallelism of an already-running job in an efficient and model-independent way. We describe Scalai, a state management library for DL systems that enables jobs to change their parallelism dynamically after the GPU allocation is updated at runtime. Scalai achieves this through a new abstraction, a parallelizable tensor collection (PTC), that externalizes the job state during training. After a GPU change, Scalai uses the PTC to transform the job state: the PTC repartitions the dataset state under data parallelism and exposes it to DL workers through a virtual file system; and the PTC obtains the model state as partitioned checkpoints and transforms them to reflect the new parallelization configuration. For efficiency, Scalai executes PTC transformations in parallel with minimum data movement between workers. Our experiments show that Scalai enables DL jobs to support dynamic parallelization with low overhead.
title Tenplex: Dynamic Parallelism for Deep Learning using Parallelizable Tensor Collections
topic Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.05181