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<span id="usage-distributed"></span><h1>Distributed Communication<a class="headerlink" href="#distributed-communication" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h1>
<p>MLX utilizes <a class="reference external" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_Passing_Interface">MPI</a> to
provide distributed communication operations that allow the computational cost
of training or inference to be shared across many physical machines. You can
see a list of the supported operations in the <a class="reference internal" href="../python/distributed.html#distributed"><span class="std std-ref">API docs</span></a>.</p>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="admonition-title">Note</p>
<p>A lot of operations may not be supported or not as fast as they should be.
We are adding more and tuning the ones we have as we are figuring out the
best way to do distributed computing on Macs using MLX.</p>
</div>
<section id="getting-started">
<h2>Getting Started<a class="headerlink" href="#getting-started" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h2>
<p>MLX already comes with the ability to “talk” to MPI if it is installed on the
machine. The minimal distributed program in MLX is as simple as:</p>
<div class="highlight-python notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">mlx.core</span> <span class="k">as</span> <span class="nn">mx</span>
<span class="n">world</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">mx</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">distributed</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">init</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="n">x</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">mx</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">distributed</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">all_sum</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">mx</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ones</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">10</span><span class="p">))</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">world</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">rank</span><span class="p">(),</span> <span class="n">x</span><span class="p">)</span>
</pre></div>
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<p>The program above sums the array <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">mx.ones(10)</span></code> across all
distributed processes. If simply run with <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">python</span></code>, however, only one
process is launched and no distributed communication takes place.</p>
<p>To launch the program in distributed mode we need to use <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">mpirun</span></code> or
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">mpiexec</span></code> depending on the MPI installation. The simplest possible way is the
following:</p>
<div class="highlight-shell notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>$<span class="w"> </span>mpirun<span class="w"> </span>-np<span class="w"> </span><span class="m">2</span><span class="w"> </span>python<span class="w"> </span>test.py
<span class="m">1</span><span class="w"> </span>array<span class="o">([</span><span class="m">2</span>,<span class="w"> </span><span class="m">2</span>,<span class="w"> </span><span class="m">2</span>,<span class="w"> </span>...,<span class="w"> </span><span class="m">2</span>,<span class="w"> </span><span class="m">2</span>,<span class="w"> </span><span class="m">2</span><span class="o">]</span>,<span class="w"> </span><span class="nv">dtype</span><span class="o">=</span>float32<span class="o">)</span>
<span class="m">0</span><span class="w"> </span>array<span class="o">([</span><span class="m">2</span>,<span class="w"> </span><span class="m">2</span>,<span class="w"> </span><span class="m">2</span>,<span class="w"> </span>...,<span class="w"> </span><span class="m">2</span>,<span class="w"> </span><span class="m">2</span>,<span class="w"> </span><span class="m">2</span><span class="o">]</span>,<span class="w"> </span><span class="nv">dtype</span><span class="o">=</span>float32<span class="o">)</span>
</pre></div>
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<p>The above launches two processes on the same (local) machine and we can see
both standard output streams. The processes send the array of 1s to each other
and compute the sum which is printed. Launching with <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">mpirun</span> <span class="pre">-np</span> <span class="pre">4</span> <span class="pre">...</span></code> would
print 4 etc.</p>
</section>
<section id="installing-mpi">
<h2>Installing MPI<a class="headerlink" href="#installing-mpi" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h2>
<p>MPI can be installed with Homebrew, using the Anaconda package manager or
compiled from source. Most of our testing is done using <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">openmpi</span></code> installed
with the Anaconda package manager as follows:</p>
<div class="highlight-shell notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>$<span class="w"> </span>conda<span class="w"> </span>install<span class="w"> </span>openmpi
</pre></div>
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<p>Installing with Homebrew may require specifying the location of <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">libmpi.dyld</span></code>
so that MLX can find it and load it at runtime. This can simply be achieved by
passing the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH</span></code> environment variable to <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">mpirun</span></code>.</p>
<div class="highlight-shell notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>$<span class="w"> </span>mpirun<span class="w"> </span>-np<span class="w"> </span><span class="m">2</span><span class="w"> </span>-x<span class="w"> </span><span class="nv">DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH</span><span class="o">=</span>/opt/homebrew/lib/<span class="w"> </span>python<span class="w"> </span>test.py
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<section id="setting-up-remote-hosts">
<h2>Setting up Remote Hosts<a class="headerlink" href="#setting-up-remote-hosts" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h2>
<p>MPI can automatically connect to remote hosts and set up the communication over
the network if the remote hosts can be accessed via ssh. A good checklist to
debug connectivity issues is the following:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ssh</span> <span class="pre">hostname</span></code> works from all machines to all machines without asking for
password or host confirmation</p></li>
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">mpirun</span></code> is accessible on all machines. You can call <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">mpirun</span></code> using its
full path to force all machines to use a specific path.</p></li>
<li><p>Ensure that the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">hostname</span></code> used by MPI is the one that you have configured
in the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">.ssh/config</span></code> files on all machines.</p></li>
</ul>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="admonition-title">Note</p>
<p>For an example hostname <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">foo.bar.com</span></code> MPI can use only <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">foo</span></code> as
the hostname passed to ssh if the current hostname matches <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">*.bar.com</span></code>.</p>
</div>
<p>An easy way to pass the host names to MPI is using a host file. A host file
looks like the following, where <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">host1</span></code> and <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">host2</span></code> should be the fully
qualified domain names or IPs for these hosts.</p>
<div class="highlight-python notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">host1</span> <span class="n">slots</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">1</span>
<span class="n">host2</span> <span class="n">slots</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">1</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>When using MLX, it is very likely that you want to use 1 slot per host, ie one
process per host. The hostfile also needs to contain the current
host if you want to run on the local host. Passing the host file to
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">mpirun</span></code> is simply done using the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">--hostfile</span></code> command line argument.</p>
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<h2>Training Example<a class="headerlink" href="#training-example" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h2>
<p>In this section we will adapt an MLX training loop to support data parallel
distributed training. Namely, we will average the gradients across a set of
hosts before applying them to the model.</p>
<p>Our training loop looks like the following code snippet if we omit the model,
dataset and optimizer initialization.</p>
<div class="highlight-python notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">model</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="o">...</span>
<span class="n">optimizer</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="o">...</span>
<span class="n">dataset</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="o">...</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">step</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">model</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">x</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">y</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="n">loss</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">grads</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">loss_grad_fn</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">model</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">x</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">y</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">optimizer</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">update</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">model</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">grads</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">loss</span>
<span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">x</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">y</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="n">dataset</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="n">loss</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">step</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">model</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">x</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">y</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">mx</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">eval</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">loss</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">model</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">parameters</span><span class="p">())</span>
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<p>All we have to do to average the gradients across machines is perform an
<a class="reference internal" href="../python/_autosummary/mlx.core.distributed.all_sum.html#mlx.core.distributed.all_sum" title="mlx.core.distributed.all_sum"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">all_sum()</span></code></a> and divide by the size of the <a class="reference internal" href="../python/_autosummary/mlx.core.distributed.Group.html#mlx.core.distributed.Group" title="mlx.core.distributed.Group"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Group</span></code></a>. Namely we
have to <a class="reference internal" href="../python/_autosummary/mlx.utils.tree_map.html#mlx.utils.tree_map" title="mlx.utils.tree_map"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">mlx.utils.tree_map()</span></code></a> the gradients with following function.</p>
<div class="highlight-python notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">all_avg</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">mx</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">distributed</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">all_sum</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="o">/</span> <span class="n">mx</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">distributed</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">init</span><span class="p">()</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">size</span><span class="p">()</span>
</pre></div>
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<p>Putting everything together our training loop step looks as follows with
everything else remaining the same.</p>
<div class="highlight-python notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">mlx.utils</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">tree_map</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">all_reduce_grads</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">grads</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="n">N</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">mx</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">distributed</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">init</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">N</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">grads</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">tree_map</span><span class="p">(</span>
<span class="k">lambda</span> <span class="n">x</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="n">mx</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">distributed</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">all_sum</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="o">/</span> <span class="n">N</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="n">grads</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">step</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">model</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">x</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">y</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="n">loss</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">grads</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">loss_grad_fn</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">model</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">x</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">y</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">grads</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">all_reduce_grads</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">grads</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="c1"># &lt;--- This line was added</span>
<span class="n">optimizer</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">update</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">model</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">grads</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">loss</span>
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<section id="tuning-all-reduce">
<h2>Tuning All Reduce<a class="headerlink" href="#tuning-all-reduce" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h2>
<p>We are working on improving the performance of all reduce on MLX but for now
the two main things one can do to extract the most out of distributed training with MLX are:</p>
<ol class="arabic simple">
<li><p>Perform a few large reductions instead of many small ones to improve
bandwidth and latency</p></li>
<li><p>Pass <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">--mca</span> <span class="pre">btl_tcp_links</span> <span class="pre">4</span></code> to <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">mpirun</span></code> to configure it to use 4 tcp
connections between each host to improve bandwidth</p></li>
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