Add support for alternating rings, allow for cross-nic rings without
cross-rail communication.
Add support for user buffer registration for network send/recv.
Optimize aggregated operations to better utilize all channels.
Add flattening for BCM PCI gen5 switches.
Add support for inter-node NVLink communication
Add support for port fusion in NET/IB.
Add support for ReduceScatter and AllGather using Collnet.
Update net API to v8.
Fix hang during A2A connection.
Split transport connect phase into multiple steps to avoid port
exhaustion when connecting alltoall at large scale. Defaults to 128
peers per round.
Fix memory leaks on CUDA graph capture.
Fix alltoallv crash on self-sendrecv.
Make topology detection more deterministic when PCI speeds are not
available (fix issue #1020).
Properly close shared memory in NVLS resources.
Revert proxy detach after 5 seconds.
Add option to print progress during transport connect.
Add option to set NCCL_DEBUG to INFO on first WARN.
Add local user buffer registration for NVLink SHARP.
Add tuning plugin support.
Increase net API to v7 to allow for device-side packet reordering;
remove support for v4 plugins.
Add support for RoCE ECE.
Add support for C2C links.
Better detect SHM allocation failures to avoid crash with Bus Error.
Fix missing thread unlocks in bootstrap (Fixes#936).
Disable network flush by default on H100.
Move device code from src/collectives/device to src/device.
Fix NVLS search (issue #931).
Increase max IB NICs to 32.
Fix inconsistent device ordering (issue #820).
Try to use different devices for different GPUs in systems with
more than one NIC per GFU.
Fix data corruption with Tree/LL128 on systems with 1GPU:1NIC.
Fix hang with Collnet on bfloat16 on systems with less than one NIC
per GPU.
Fix long initialization time.
Fix data corruption with Collnet when mixing multi-process and
multi-GPU per process.
Fix crash when shared memory creation fails.
Fix Avg operation with Collnet/Chain.
Fix performance of alltoall at scale with more than one NIC per GPU.
Fix performance for DGX H800.
Fix race condition in connection progress causing a crash.
Fix network flush with Collnet.
Fix performance of aggregated allGather/reduceScatter operations.
Fix PXN operation when CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES is set.
Fix NVTX3 compilation issues on Debian 10.
Add support for IB SHARP to NVLS (NVLink SHARP algorithm).
Add NVLS+Tree algorithm.
Add support for memory management using cuMem* functions.
Use all NICs for Send/Receive operations on systems with more than
one NIC per GPU (#804).
Add ncclCommSplit primitive, with resource sharing option in config.
Fix alltoallv hang (#788)
Increase number of channels on H100 when we're not limited by NVLink.
Improve error reporting in case of IB failure, printing local and
remote ID (#779).
Add build option to allow compilation against RDMA includes instead
of dynamically loading IB verbs symbols (#802).
Fix context creation for progress thread (#803).
NET/IB: add option to use multiple QPs in round-robin mode.
Fix tree performance issue when NVB is disabled on HCM topologies.
Add new NVLS algorithm for allreduce using NVLink SHARP (intra-node only).
Add new config options: cgaClusterSize, minCTAs, maxCTAs, netName.
Enable LL128 when we use PXN to close rings.
NVTX3 includes update.
Fix crash when one CollNet (SHARP) rail fails to initialize.
Add support for 400Gbit NDR network adapters (CX7)
Handle EINTR in socket poll() function
Add NCCL_PROGRESS_APPENDOP_FREQ to control op append overhead
Resource cleanup fixes
Fix double free in case of init failure
Fix crash in ncclCommAbort
Revert AMD speed commit
Add support for CUDA 12.0, drop Kepler (sm_35).
Support for H100 features.
Make socket code more robust and protected. Solves #555.
Improve performance on large CUDA graphs, reducing dependencies.
Reduce inter-socket bandwidth on AMD CPUs to favor better paths.
Various fixes to ncclCommAbort.
Make service thread polling resistant to EINTR.
Compile with profiling API by default.
Extend NVTX instrumentation with call arguments.
Fix crash with CollnetChain on some node topologies
Fix hang when interleaving the capture of different graphs
Fix hang during init in multi-threaded mode
Fix potential data corruption with LL128 protocol on unaligned buffers.
Fix CPU usage during preconnect
Fixes double-free in the error path for ncclCommInitAll
Workaround hang on H100 with Ring/LL128 on 2 GPUs.
Add support for improved fault tolerance: non-blocking mode, new
init function with config, and ncclCommFinalize function.
Reintroduce collnet+chain algorithm, alongside collnet+direct.
Add LL protocol for intra-node P2P (on by default) and network
communication (off by default).
Use network instead of shared memory when performance is better.
Fix: wait for CUDA graph destroy before destroying comm with linked
graph resources.
Remove aggressive polling during enqueue.
Fix DMABUF fallback on MOFED 5.4 and earlier.
Optimize CUDA graph launch; avoid launching a CPU callback for
intra-node operations.
Simplify kernel common code to improve the latency of send/recv
operations.
Strengthen CUDA streams semantics.
Change NET API to v6, to add dmabuf support.
Add ncclGetLastError() function.
Add ncclRemoteError code and use it for remote network errors.
Support the use of a different NCCL_NET parameter per communicator.
Add support for SHM and P2P transfers using cudaMemcpy.
Improve allreduce performance when we have more than one network interface per
GPU and we need to use PXN to close rings.
Add support for PCI Gen5 on 5.4 kernels.
Fix crash when setting NCCL_SET_THREAD_NAME.
Fix random crash in init due to uninitialized struct.
Fix hang on cubemesh topologies.
Add P2P_DIRECT_DISABLE parameter to disable direct access to pointers within a
process.
Fix bug with CollNet
Fix bug with zero-bytes send/recv operations
Fix NCCL_PARAM implementation to avoid taking a lock on every call
Fix bug when setting NCCL_IB_QPS_PER_CONNECTION to more than one.
Improve error reporting for network errors.
Add network communication through another GPU connected with NVLink
(PXN).
Add aggregation of messages coming from different local GPUs through
PXN and going to the same destination.
Add new v5 plugin API with grouped receives and tags.
Add compat for v4 plugins.
Add naming of NCCL threads to help debugging.
Fix NVLink detection and avoid data corruption when some NVLinks are
down.
Add support for Relaxed Ordering for IB.
Add profiling and timing infrastructure.
Add new API for creating a reduction operation which multiplies the input by a rank-specific scalar before doing an inter-rank summation (see: ncclRedOpCreatePreMulSum).
Improve CollNet (SHARP) performance of ncclAllReduce when captured in a CUDA Graph via user buffer registration.
Add environment variable NCCL_NET_PLUGIN="<suffix>" to allow user to choose among multiple NCCL net plugins by substituting into "libnccl-net-<suffix>.so".
Fix memory leak of NVB connections.
Fix topology detection of IB Virtual Functions (SR-IOV).
Add support for bfloat16.
Add ncclAvg reduction operation.
Improve performance for aggregated operations.
Improve performance for tree.
Improve network error reporting.
Add NCCL_NET parameter to force a specific network.
Add NCCL_IB_QPS_PER_CONNECTION parameter to split IB traffic onto multiple queue pairs.
Fix topology detection error in WSL2.
Fix proxy memory elements affinity (improve alltoall performance).
Fix graph search on cubemesh topologies.
Fix hang in cubemesh during NVB connections.
Fix crash when setting NCCL_MAX_P2P_NCHANNELS below nchannels.
Fix hang during sendrecv dynamic NVB connection establishment on
cubemesh topologies.
Add environment variable to only use SHARP on communicators beyond
a given number of ranks.
Add debug subsystem to trace memory allocations.
Fix compilation with TRACE=1. (Issue #505)
Fix memory leaks.
Fix crash in bootstrap error case.
Fix Collnet clean-up issue.
Make PCI switch vendor/device optional for XML injection.
Add support for nvidia-peermem module.
Add support for CUDA graphs.
Fuse BCM Gen4 switches to avoid suboptimal performance on some platforms. Issue #439.
Fix bootstrap issue caused by connection reordering.
Fix CPU locking block.
Improve CollNet algorithm.
Improve performance on DGX A100 for communicators with only one GPU per node.
Fix hang in corner cases of alltoallv using point to point send/recv.
Harmonize error messages.
Fix missing NVTX section in the license.
Update README.
Optimization for Tree allreduce on A100.
Improve aggregation performance.
Use shared buffers for inter-node send/recv.
Add NVTX profiling hooks.
Accelerate alltoall connections by merging communication for all
channels.
Add support for one hop communication through NVLink, for faster
send/recv communication on cubemesh topologies like DGX-1.
Improve alltoall scheduling to better balance intra/inter node
communication.
Increase send/recv parallelism by 8x, each warp sending or
receiving to a different peer.
Net: move to v4.
Net: make flush operation asynchronous to accelerate alltoall.
Net: define maximum number of requests.
Fix hang when using LL128 protocol after 2^31 steps.
Fix#379 : topology injection failing when using less GPUs than
described in the XML.
Fix#394 : protocol mismatch causing hangs or crashes when using
one GPU per node.
Add support for network collectives.
Add support for XML topology dump/injection.
Add text values for GDR and P2P Levels, including "NVL".
Add speed detection for PCI, Infiniband and Ethernet cards.
Add CPU detection for ARM and AMD CPUs.
Add support for adaptive routing on Infiniband.
Change NET plugin API to v3 : merge PCI path and GPU pointer
capability into a single structure and add other properties.
Add LL128 Protocol.
Rewrite the topology detection and tree/ring creation (#179). Improve
tree performance by sending/receiving from different GPUs. Add
model-based tuning to switch between the different algorithms and
protocols.
Rework P2P/SHM detection in containers (#155, #248).
Detect duplicated devices and return an error (#231).
Add tuning for GCP
Fix#209: improve socket transport performance
Split transfers over multiple sockets
Launch multiple threads to drive sockets
Detect AWS NICs and set nsockets/nthreads accordingly
Added detection of IBM/Power NVLink bridge device.
Add NUMA support to PCI distance calculations.
Added NCCL_IGNORE_CPU_AFFINITY env var.
Fix memory leaks; GithubIssue#180
Compiler warning fix; GithubIssue#178
Replace non-standard variable length arrays. GithubIssue#171
Fix Tree+Shared Memory crash. GithubPR#185
Fix LL cleanup hang during long running DL jobs.
Fix NCCL_RINGS environment variable handling.
Added extra checks to catch repeat calls to ncclCommDestroy() GithubIssue#191
Improve bootstrap socket connection reliability at scale.
Fix hostname hashing issue. GithubIssue#187
Code cleanup to rename all non device files from *.cu to *.cc
Add tree algorithms for allreduce to improve performance at scale.
Add ncclCommAbort() and ncclCommGetAsyncError() to properly handle
network errors and be permit recover.
Detect initial CPU affinity and no longer escape it.
Improved LL tuning for multi-node jobs.
Improved bootstrap for large job scaling.
Fixed a hang during bootstrap due to socket reuse.
Added operation name to the COLL INFO logging.
Add support for inter-node communication using sockets and InfiniBand/RoCE.
Improve latency.
Add support for aggregation.
Improve LL/regular tuning.
Remove tests as those are now at github.com/nvidia/nccl-tests .
