megengine.functional.distributed.broadcast¶
- broadcast(inp, group=WORLD, device=None)[source]¶
Broadcast tensor data from root process to others.
- Parameters
inp (
Tensor) – Input tensor.group (
Optional[Group]) – The process group to work on. The default group is WORLD which means all processes available. You can use a list of process ranks to create new group to work on it, e.g. [1, 3, 5].device (
Optional[str]) – The specific device to execute this operator. None default device means the device of inp will be used. Specify “gpu0:1” to execute this operator on diffrent cuda stream, 1 is stream id, and default stream id is 0.
- Return type
- Returns
Result tensor.
Examples
input = Tensor([rank]) # Rank 0 # input: Tensor([0]) # Rank 1 # input: Tensor([1]) output = broadcast(input) # Rank 0 # output: Tensor([0]) # Rank 1 # output: Tensor([0]) input = Tensor([rank]) group = Group([1, 0]) # first rank is root output = broadcast(input, group) # Rank 0 # output: Tensor([1]) # Rank 1 # output: Tensor([1])