Run single or multi-node on Lightning Studios¶
Audience: Users who don’t want to waste time on cluster configuration and maintenance.
Lightning Studios is a cloud platform where you can build, train, finetune and deploy models without worrying about infrastructure, cost management, scaling, and other technical headaches. This guide shows you how easy it is to run a Fabric training script across multiple machines on Lightning Studios.
Initial Setup¶
First, create a free Lightning AI account. You get free credits every month you can spend on GPU compute. To use machines with multiple GPUs or run jobs across machines, you need to be on the Pro or Teams plan.
Launch multi-node training in the cloud¶
Step 1: Start a new Studio.
Step 2: Bring your code into the Studio. You can clone a GitHub repo, drag and drop local files, or use the following demo example:
Code Example
import lightning as L
import torch
import torch.nn.functional as F
from lightning.pytorch.demos import Transformer, WikiText2
from torch.utils.data import DataLoader
def main():
L.seed_everything(42)
fabric = L.Fabric()
fabric.launch()
# Data
with fabric.rank_zero_first():
dataset = WikiText2()
train_dataloader = DataLoader(dataset, batch_size=20, shuffle=True)
# Model
model = Transformer(vocab_size=dataset.vocab_size)
# Optimizer
optimizer = torch.optim.SGD(model.parameters(), lr=0.1)
model, optimizer = fabric.setup(model, optimizer)
train_dataloader = fabric.setup_dataloaders(train_dataloader)
for batch_idx, batch in enumerate(train_dataloader):
input, target = batch
output = model(input, target)
loss = F.nll_loss(output, target.view(-1))
fabric.backward(loss)
optimizer.step()
optimizer.zero_grad()
if batch_idx % 10 == 0:
fabric.print(f"iteration: {batch_idx} - loss {loss.item():.4f}")
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()
Step 3: Remove hardcoded accelerator settings if any and let Lightning automatically set them for you. No other changes are required in your script.
# These are the defaults
fabric = L.Fabric(accelerator="auto", devices="auto")
# DON'T hardcode these, leave them default/auto
# fabric = L.Fabric(accelerator="cpu", devices=3)
Step 4: Install dependencies and download all necessary data. Test that your script runs in the Studio first. If it runs in the Studio, it will run in multi-node!
Step 5: Open the Multi-Machine Training (MMT) app. Type the command to run your script, select the machine type and how many machines you want to launch it on. Click “Run” to start the job.
After submitting the job, you will be redirected to a page where you can monitor the machine metrics and logs in real-time.
Bring your own cloud account¶
As a Teams or Enterprise customer, you have the option to connect your existing cloud account to Lightning AI. This gives your organization the ability to keep all compute and data on your own cloud account and your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).
