3 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Kamil Iskra
3ea7eedf3b NCCL 2.27.5-1
Improvements for GB200 systems
* Optimize the network performance by alternating the direction of the
  rings and the NIC to GPU assignment across communicators to limit
  unnecessary sharing.
* Fix the detection of C2C links in case GPU Direct RDMA is disabled
  between a GPU and a NIC.
* Fix PXN support on MNNVL systems, where NCCL would try (and fail) to
  share regular host memory across multiple nodes.
* Fix P2C (PXN over C2C), which is now preferred over regular PXN.  This
  support is currently preliminary and is disabled by default; use
  NCCL_PXN_C2C=1 to enable.

Further reduce the overheads of CUDA graph capturing, which increased in
NCCL 2.26.2 for large graphs.

Optimize the network performance on DGX B200 systems by adjusting the
bandwidths provided to the graph search algorithm.

Enable fp8 reductions in symmetric kernels on Blackwell with CUDA 12.8.

Restore the plugin name handling logic to make it possible to specify a
path to the plugin (Issue #1732).

Restore the ability to change NCCL_COLLNET_ENABLE during execution
(Issue #1741).

Add an example tuner plugin with CSV-based overrides.

Remove an x86 dependency from the example profiler.
2025-06-18 10:34:47 -07:00
Giuseppe Congiu
145e67e707 Update ext-profiler example
Sync ext-profiler example with 2.26.2.
2025-04-13 23:56:46 -07:00
Sylvain Jeaugey
68b542363f 2.23.4-1
Add scalable init API
 * Add new ncclCommInitRankScalable to allow for passing multiple
   unique IDs to the init function.
 * Spreads the load onto multiple bootstrap roots, allowing for
   constant bootstrap time.
 * Requires multiple ranks to create a unique ID, and the CPU-side
   ID exchange code to call allgather[v] instead of broadcast.

Accelerate init bootstrap operations
 * Reduce the number of calls to allgather.
 * Allow roots to reply early to ranks when information is already
   available.
 * Add an option to use ncclNet instead of sockets to perform
   bootstrap allgather operations.

Add PAT algorithms for Allgather and ReduceScatter
 * Parallel Aggregated Trees, variation of Bruck algorithm.
 * Logarithmic number of network steps for small sizes at scale.
 * Only supports one rank per node at the moment.

Add support for registered buffers for intra-node communication.
 * Allow registered user buffers to be accessed directly intra-node
 * Avoids extra copies in algorithms which permit it, saving
   memory bandwidth and helping with compute overlap.

Add profiler plugin API
 * New plugin API for profiling
 * Supports various levels of profiling, with a hierarchy.

Asynchronous graph allocation
 * Make calls to cudaMalloc and cudaMemcpy during graph allocation
   asynchronous.
 * Significantly speeds up graph capture.

Use fatal IB asynchronous events to stop network operation
 * Avoids many other error messages
 * Only fatal errors are affected; potentially transient errors
   (e.g. port down) do not cause an immediate stop.

Set P2P level to PXB on AMD CPUs when using more than 2 GPUs per node
 * P2P would cause a significant performance degradation when using
   many GPUs, and therefore many interleaved data flows.
 * Disable P2P through the CPU when we have 3+ GPUs per node; keep it
   enabled when we only have 2 GPUs.

Improve the init logs to report the real NCCL function.
 * Make the log report ncclCommInitRank or ncclCommSplit, rather than
   the generic ncclCommInitRankFunc.

Add a parameter to set the location of the user configuration file.
 * Add NCCL_CONF_FILE environment variable to set where the user's
   configuration file resides.

Increase default IB timeout
 * Increase IB timeout value from 18 to 20.
 * Should help avoid fatal errors on large RoCE systems.

Add new check for nvidia peermem
 * On linux kernels 6.6+, /sys/kernel/mm/memory_peers is no longer
   present; check for /sys/module/nvidia_peermem/version instead.

Fix old performance regression when mixing small and large operations.
 * Improves distribution of work on channels.

Fix crash when NUMA IDs are equal to -1.
 * Can happen when a NIC is a virtual NIC, or when linux doesn't
   know which NUMA node a device is attached to
 * Issue NVIDIA/nccl-tests#233

Fix tree graph search when NCCL_CROSS_NIC is set to 1.
 * Would force NCCL to use the balanced_tree pattern, thereby
   disabling LL128 on platforms with 1 GPU+1 NIC per PCI switch.
 * Would also try to use alternate rings even though it was not
   needed.

Compiler tweaks and fixes
 * PR #1177
 * PR #1228

Fix stack smash
 * PR #1325

Fixes for multi-node NVLink + IB operation

Coverity fixes and comments.
2024-09-16 23:41:17 -07:00