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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 31, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 16, 2017
Petuum Inc, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
PETUUM INC, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Abstract
A computer in a distributed computing system is disclosed. The computer includes: a graphics processing unit (GPU) memory; a central processing unit (CPU) memory comprising a Key-Value Store (KVS) module; an execution engine module configured to run a deep learning (DL) program to create a plurality of operator graph layers in the graphics processing unit memory; a client library module configured to create a GPU-CPU synchronization (GCS) module for each of the plurality of operator graph layers; a coordination service module configured to compute network cost of a first and a second communication scheme and select, based on the network cost, one of the first and second communication scheme for transmitting data associated with one of the plurality of operator graph layers from a corresponding GCS module.