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).
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)
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
Sylvain Jeaugey
Ke Wen