MPIEnvironment
- class lightning.pytorch.plugins.environments.MPIEnvironment[source]
Bases:
ClusterEnvironment
An environment for running on clusters with processes created through MPI.
Requires the installation of the mpi4py package. See also: https://github.com/mpi4py/mpi4py
- static detect()[source]
Returns
True
if the mpi4py package is installed and MPI returns a world size greater than 1.- Return type:
- global_rank()[source]
The rank (index) of the currently running process across all nodes and devices.
- Return type:
- local_rank()[source]
The rank (index) of the currently running process inside of the current node.
- Return type:
- node_rank()[source]
The rank (index) of the node on which the current process runs.
- Return type:
- property creates_processes_externally: bool
Whether the environment creates the subprocesses or not.
- property main_address: str
The main address through which all processes connect and communicate.
- property main_port: int
An open and configured port in the main node through which all processes communicate.