facebookresearch/fairseq

bf16 with A100 GPUs

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#4,696 opened on Sep 5, 2022

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Description

A100 GPUs should support bf16 unless I am mistaken. I see it's currently only supported with TPUs. Are there any plans to support this?

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Research direction
Investigate PyTorch's bfloat16 support on A100 GPUs and implement bf16 support for relevant operations in fairseq.
Tech stack
pythonpytorch
Domain
backendmachine learningai
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1-3 hours
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PythonPyTorchGPU computing
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