Pipeline Parallelism Demo with GPT2

Requirements

Before you can launch training, you need to install the following requirements.

Install PyTorch

bash

#conda
conda install pytorch==1.12.0 torchvision==0.13.0 torchaudio==0.12.0 cudatoolkit=11.3 -c pytorch
#pip
pip install torch==1.12.0+cu113 torchvision==0.13.0+cu113 torchaudio==0.12.0 --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu113

Install Colossal-AI v0.2.0 From Official Website

bash

pip install colossalai==0.2.0+torch1.12cu11.3 -f https://release.colossalai.org

Install transformers

bash

pip install transformers

Dataset

For simplicity, the input data is randomly generated here.

Training

bash

#Run the Pipeline Parallel on GPT with default setting and a dummy dataset.
#You can change the GPU number or microbatch number in the run.sh .
bash run.sh