Easyscale: Accuracy-consistent elastic training for deep learning
arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.14228, 2022•arxiv.org
Distributed synchronized GPU training is commonly used for deep learning. The resource
constraint of using a fixed number of GPUs makes large-scale training jobs suffer from long
queuing time for resource allocation, and lowers the cluster utilization. Adapting to resource
elasticity can alleviate this but often introduces inconsistent model accuracy, due to lacking
of capability to decouple model training procedure from resource allocation. We propose
EasyScale, an elastic training system that achieves consistent model accuracy under …
constraint of using a fixed number of GPUs makes large-scale training jobs suffer from long
queuing time for resource allocation, and lowers the cluster utilization. Adapting to resource
elasticity can alleviate this but often introduces inconsistent model accuracy, due to lacking
of capability to decouple model training procedure from resource allocation. We propose
EasyScale, an elastic training system that achieves consistent model accuracy under …
Distributed synchronized GPU training is commonly used for deep learning. The resource constraint of using a fixed number of GPUs makes large-scale training jobs suffer from long queuing time for resource allocation, and lowers the cluster utilization. Adapting to resource elasticity can alleviate this but often introduces inconsistent model accuracy, due to lacking of capability to decouple model training procedure from resource allocation. We propose EasyScale, an elastic training system that achieves consistent model accuracy under resource elasticity for both homogeneous and heterogeneous GPUs. EasyScale preserves the data-parallel training behaviors strictly, traces the consistency-relevant factors carefully, utilizes the deep learning characteristics for EasyScaleThread abstraction and fast context-switching. To utilize heterogeneous cluster, EasyScale dynamically assigns workers based on the intra-/inter-job schedulers, minimizing load imbalance and maximizing aggregated job throughput. Deployed in an online serving cluster, EasyScale powers the training jobs to utilize idle GPUs opportunistically, improving overall cluster utilization by 62.1%.
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