diff --git a/src/include/utils.h b/src/include/utils.h
index 93e72c8..5acccc2 100644
--- a/src/include/utils.h
+++ b/src/include/utils.h
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 #include <stdint.h>
 
 ncclResult_t getHostName(char* hostname, int maxlen, const char delim);
+uint64_t getHash(const char* string, int n);
 uint64_t getHostHash();
 uint64_t getPidHash();
 
diff --git a/src/init.cc b/src/init.cc
index 0158f8d..706d3a6 100644
--- a/src/init.cc
+++ b/src/init.cc
@@ -308,12 +308,12 @@ static void showVersion() {
   }
 }
 
-static ncclResult_t fillInfo(struct ncclPeerInfo* info, int rank) {
+static ncclResult_t fillInfo(struct ncclPeerInfo* info, int rank, uint64_t commHash) {
   info->rank = rank;
   CUDACHECK(cudaGetDevice(&info->cudaDev));
   NCCLCHECK(getNvmlDevice(info->cudaDev, &info->nvmlDev))
-  info->hostHash=getHostHash();
-  info->pidHash=getPidHash();
+  info->hostHash=getHostHash()+commHash;
+  info->pidHash=getPidHash()+commHash;
 
   // Get PCI Bus Id. We need to get the bus ID through CUDA first, since the
   // cudaDev is a CUDA runtime dev number which could be different from the
@@ -691,7 +691,8 @@ static ncclResult_t initTransportsRank(struct ncclComm* comm, ncclUniqueId* comm
 
   int rank = comm->rank;
   int nranks = comm->nRanks;
-  TRACE(NCCL_INIT, "rank %d nranks %d - BEGIN", rank, nranks);
+  uint64_t commHash = getHash(commId->internal, NCCL_UNIQUE_ID_BYTES);
+  TRACE(NCCL_INIT, "comm %p, commHash %lx, rank %d nranks %d - BEGIN", comm, commHash, rank, nranks);
   NCCLCHECK(bootstrapInit(commId, rank, nranks, &comm->bootstrap));
 
   // AllGather1 - begin
@@ -702,7 +703,7 @@ static ncclResult_t initTransportsRank(struct ncclComm* comm, ncclUniqueId* comm
 
   NCCLCHECK(ncclCalloc(&allGather1Data, nranks));
   allGather1Data[rank].comm = comm;
-  NCCLCHECK(fillInfo(&allGather1Data[rank].peerInfo, rank));
+  NCCLCHECK(fillInfo(&allGather1Data[rank].peerInfo, rank, commHash));
   NCCLCHECK(bootstrapAllGather(comm->bootstrap, allGather1Data, sizeof(*allGather1Data)));
 
   NCCLCHECK(ncclCalloc(&comm->peerInfo, nranks));
@@ -998,7 +999,7 @@ static ncclResult_t initTransportsAll(struct ncclComm** comms, const int* devs,
   NCCLCHECK(ncclCalloc(&allInfo, nranks));
   for (int rank=0; rank<nranks; rank++) {
     CUDACHECK(cudaSetDevice(devs[rank]));
-    NCCLCHECK(fillInfo(allInfo+rank, rank));
+    NCCLCHECK(fillInfo(allInfo+rank, rank, 0));
   }
 
   int* connectTransport;
diff --git a/src/misc/utils.cc b/src/misc/utils.cc
index 5093755..da99774 100644
--- a/src/misc/utils.cc
+++ b/src/misc/utils.cc
@@ -87,10 +87,10 @@ void ncclDebugLog(ncclDebugLogLevel level, unsigned long flags, const char *file
   }
 }
 
-uint64_t getHash(const char* string) {
+uint64_t getHash(const char* string, int n) {
   // Based on DJB2, result = result * 33 + char
   uint64_t result = 5381;
-  for (int c = 0; string[c] != '\0'; c++) {
+  for (int c = 0; c < n; c++) {
     result = ((result << 5) + result) + string[c];
   }
   return result;
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ uint64_t getHostHash(void) {
   uname[offset]='\0';
   TRACE(NCCL_INIT,"unique hostname '%s'", uname);
 
-  return getHash(uname);
+  return getHash(uname, strlen(uname));
 }
 
 /* Generate a hash of the unique identifying string for this process
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ uint64_t getPidHash(void) {
   pname[plen+len]='\0';
   TRACE(NCCL_INIT,"unique PID '%s'", pname);
 
-  return getHash(pname);
+  return getHash(pname, strlen(pname));
 }
 
 int parseStringList(const char* string, struct netIf* ifList, int maxList) {