---
title: thunder.distributed.skip_data_parallel_grad_sync
description: A context manager to skip data parallel grad sync.
canonical: >-
  https://lightning.ai/docs/thunder/stable/api-reference/generated/thunder.distributed.skip_data_parallel_grad_sync
---
# thunder.distributed.skip_data_parallel_grad_sync {#thunder-distributed-skip-data-parallel-grad-sync}

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

[\[source\]](https://github.com/Lightning-AI/lightning-thunder/blob/0.2.6/../home/runner/.local/share/uv/python/cpython-3.10-linux-x86_64-gnu/lib/python3.10/contextlib.py#L108-L115)

A context manager to skip data parallel grad sync.

Return type:

[`Generator`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/collections.abc.html#collections.abc.Generator "(in Python v3.15)")\[[`Any`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html#typing.Any "(in Python v3.15)"), [`Any`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html#typing.Any "(in Python v3.15)"), [`Any`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html#typing.Any "(in Python v3.15)")\]

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