Neuron Distributed is a package for supporting different distributed training/inference mechanism for Neuron devices. It would provide xla friendly implementations of some of the more popular distributed training/inference techniques. As the size of the model scales, fitting these models on a single device becomes impossible and hence we have to make use of model sharding techniques to partition the model across multiple devices. As part of this library, we enable support for Tensor Parallel sharding technique with other distributed library supported to be added in future.

To install the library, please follow the instructions mentioned here: https://awsdocs-neuron.readthedocs-hosted.com/en/latest//libraries/neuronx-distributed/index.html

To build from source, run the following command:

python3 setup.py bdist_wheel

It should place the wheel at dist/

For a detailed API reference guide, please refer to: https://awsdocs-neuron.readthedocs-hosted.com/en/latest/libraries/neuronx-distributed/tp_api_guide.html#tp-api-guide