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title: thunder.distributed.get_skip_data_parallel_grad_sync
description: Get whether to skip data parallel grad sync.
canonical: >-
  https://lightning.ai/docs/thunder/stable/api-reference/generated/thunder.distributed.get_skip_data_parallel_grad_sync
---
# thunder.distributed.get_skip_data_parallel_grad_sync {#thunder-distributed-get-skip-data-parallel-grad-sync}

### `thunder.distributed.get_skip_data_parallel_grad_sync()` {#thunder.distributed.get_skip_data_parallel_grad_sync}

[\[source\]](https://github.com/Lightning-AI/lightning-thunder/blob/0.2.6/thunder/distributed/__init__.py#L99-L105)

Get whether to skip data parallel grad sync.

Return type:

[`bool`](https://docs.python.org/3/builtins/functions.html#bool "(in Python v3.15)")

Returns:

Whether to skip data parallel grad sync.

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