Release SuperBench v0.10.0

SuperBench 0.10.0 Release Notes

SuperBench Improvements

• Support monitoring for AMD GPUs.
• Support ROCm 5.7 and ROCm 6.0 dockerfile.
• Add MSCCL support for Nvidia GPU.
• Fix NUMA domains swap issue in NDv4 topology file.
• Add NDv5 topo file.
• Fix NCCL and NCCL-test to 2.18.3 for hang issue in CUDA 12.2.

Micro-benchmark Improvements

• Add HPL random generator to gemm-flops with ROCm.
• Add DirectXGPURenderFPS benchmark to measure the FPS of rendering simple frames.
• Add HWDecoderFPS benchmark to measure the FPS of hardware decoder performance.
• Update Docker image for H100 support.
• Update MLC version into 3.10 for CUDA/ROCm dockerfile.
• Bug fix for GPU Burn test.
• Support INT8 in cublaslt function.
• Add hipBLASLt function benchmark.
• Support cpu-gpu and gpu-cpu in ib-validation.
• Support graph mode in NCCL/RCCL benchmarks for latency metrics.
• Support cpp implementation in distributed inference benchmark.
• Add O2 option for gpu copy ROCm build.
• Support different hipblasLt data types in dist inference.
• Support in-place in NCCL/RCCL benchmark.
• Support data type option in NCCL/RCCL benchmark.
• Improve P2P performance with fine-grained GPU memory in GPU-copy test for AMD GPUs.
• Update hipblaslt GEMM metric unit to tflops.
• Support FP8 for hipblaslt benchmark.

Model Benchmark Improvements

• Change torch.distributed.launch to torchrun.
• Support Megatron-LM/Megatron-Deepspeed GPT pretrain benchmark.

Result Analysis

• Support baseline generation from multiple nodes.

Release SuperBench v0.9.0

SuperBench 0.9.0 Release Notes

SuperBench Improvements

• Support Ctrl+C and interrupt to stop all SuperBench testing.
• Support Windows Docker for VDI/Gaming GPU.
• Support DirectX platform for Nvidia and AMD GPU.
• Add System Config Info feature in SB runner to support distributed collection.
• Support DirectX test pipeline.

Micro-benchmark Improvements

• Add DirectXGPUCopyBw Benchmark to measure HtoD/DtoH bandwidth by DirectX.
• Add DirectXGPUCoreFLops Benchmark to measure peak FLOPS by DirectX.
• Add DirectXGPUMemBw Benchmark to measure GPU memory bandwidth by DirectX.
• Add DirectXVCNEncodingLatency Benchmark to measure the VCN hardware encoding latency on AMD graphic GPUs.
• Support best algorithm selection in cudnn-function microbenchmark.
• Revise step time collection in distributed inference benchmark.

Model Benchmark Improvements

• Fix early stop logic due to num_steps in model benchmarks.
• Support TensorRT models on Nvidia H100.

Documentation Improvements

• Improve documentation for System Config Info.
• Update outdate references.

Release SuperBench v0.8.0

SuperBench 0.8.0 Release Notes

SuperBench Improvements

• Support SuperBench Executor running on Windows.
• Remove fixed rccl version in rocm5.1.x docker file.
• Upgrade networkx version to fix installation compatibility issue.
• Pin setuptools version to v65.7.0.
• Limit ansible_runner version for Python 3.6.
• Support cgroup V2 when read system metrics in monitor.
• Fix analyzer bug in Python 3.8 due to pandas api change.
• Collect real-time GPU power in monitor.
• Remove unreachable condition when write host list in mpi mode.
• Upgrade Docker image with cuda12.1, nccl 2.17.1-1, hpcx v2.14, and mlc 3.10.
• Fix wrong unit of cpu-memory-bw-latency in document.

Micro-benchmark Improvements

• Add STREAM benchmark for sustainable memory bandwidth and the corresponding computation rate.
• Add HPL Benchmark for HPC Linpack Benchmark.
• Support flexible warmup and non-random data initialization in cublas-benchmark.
• Support error tolerance in micro-benchmark for CuDNN function.
• Add distributed inference benchmark.
• Support tensor core precisions (e.g., FP8) and batch/shape range in cublaslt gemm.

Model Benchmark Improvements

• Fix torch.dist init issue with multiple models.
• Support TE FP8 in BERT/GPT2 model.
• Add num_workers configurations in model benchmark.

Release SuperBench v0.7.0

SuperBench v0.7.0 Release Notes

SuperBench Improvements

• Support non-zero return code when "sb deploy" or "sb run" fails in Ansible.
• Support log flushing to the result file during runtime.
• Update version to include revision hash and date.
• Support "pattern" in mpi mode to run tasks in parallel.
• Support topo-aware, all-pair, and K-batch pattern in mpi mode.
• Fix Transformers version to avoid Tensorrt failure.
• Add CUDA11.8 Docker image for NVIDIA arch90 GPUs.
• Support "sb deploy" without pulling image.

Micro-benchmark Improvements

• Support list of custom config string in cudnn-functions and cublas-functions.
• Support correctness check in cublas-functions.
• Support GEMM-FLOPS for NVIDIA arch90 GPUs.
• Support cuBLASLt FP16 and FP8 GEMM.
• Add wait time option to resolve mem-bw unstable issue.
• Fix bug for incorrect datatype judgement in cublas-function source code.

Model Benchmark Improvements

• Support FP8 in BERT model training.

Distributed Benchmark Improvements

• Support pair-wise pattern in IB validation benchmark.
• Support topo-aware, pair-wise, and K-batch pattern in nccl-bw benchmark.

Release SuperBench v0.6.0

SuperBench v0.6.0 Release Notes

SuperBench Improvement

• Support running on host directly without Docker.
• Support running sb command inside docker image.
• Support ROCm 5.1.1.
• Support ROCm 5.1.3.
• Fix bugs in data diagnosis.
• Fix cmake and build issues.
• Support automatic configuration yaml selection on Azure VM.
• Refine error message when GPU is not detected.
• Add return code for Timeout.
• Update Dockerfile for NCCL/RCCL version, tag name, and verbose output.
• Support node_num=1 in mpi mode.
• Update Python setup for require packages.
• Enhance parameter parsing to allow spaces in value.
• Support NO_COLOR for SuperBench output.

Micro-benchmark Improvements

• Fix issues in ib loopback benchmark.
• Fix stability issue in ib loopback benchmark.

Distributed Benchmark Improvements

• Enhance pair-wise IB benchmark.
• Bug Fix in IB benchmark.
• Support topology-aware IB benchmark.

Data Diagnosis and Analysis

• Add failure check function in data_diagnosis.py.
• Support JSON and JSONL in Diagnosis.
• Add support to store values of metrics in data diagnosis.
• Support exit code of sb result diagnosis.
• Format int type and unify empty value to N/A in diagnosis output files.

Pre-release v0.6.0-rc1

Pre-release v0.6.0-rc1.

Release SuperBench v0.5.0

SuperBench 0.5.0 Release Notes

Micro-benchmark Improvements

• Support NIC only NCCL bandwidth benchmark on single node in NCCL/RCCL bandwidth test.
• Support bi-directional bandwidth benchmark in GPU copy bandwidth test.
• Support data checking in GPU copy bandwidth test.
• Update rccl-tests submodule to fix divide by zero error.
• Add GPU-Burn micro-benchmark.

Model-benchmark Improvements

• Sync results on root rank for e2e model benchmarks in distributed mode.
• Support customized env in local and torch.distributed mode.
• Add support for pytorch>=1.9.0.
• Keep BatchNorm as fp32 for pytorch cnn models cast to fp16.
• Remove FP16 samples type converting time.
• Support FAMBench.

Inference Benchmark Improvements

• Revise the default setting for inference benchmark.
• Add percentile metrics for inference benchmarks.
• Support T4 and A10 in GEMM benchmark.
• Add configuration with inference benchmark.

Other Improvements

• Add command to support listing all optional parameters for benchmarks.
• Unify benchmark naming convention and support multiple tests with same benchmark and different parameters/options in one configuration file.
• Support timeout to detect the benchmark failure and stop the process automatically.
• Add rocm5.0 dockerfile.
• Improve output interface.

Data Diagnosis and Analysis

• Support multi-benchmark check.
• Support result summary in md, html and excel formats.
• Support data diagnosis in md and html formats.
• Support result output for all nodes in data diagnosis.

Pre-release v0.5.0-rc1

Pre-release v0.5.0-rc1.

Release SuperBench v0.4.0

SuperBench 0.4.0 Release Notes

SuperBench Framework

Monitor

• Add monitor framework for NVIDIA GPU, CPU, memory and disk.

Data Diagnosis and Analysis

• Support baseline-based data diagnosis.
• Support basic analysis feature (boxplot figure, outlier detection, etc.).

Single-node Validation

Micro Benchmarks

• CPU Memory Validation (tool: Intel Memory Latency Checker).
• GPU Copy Bandwidth (tool: built by MSRA).
• Add ORT Model on AMD GPU platform.
• Add inference backend TensorRT.
• Add inference backend ORT.

Multi-node Validation

Micro Benchmarks

• IB Networking validation.
• TCP validation (tool: TCPing).
• GPCNet Validation (tool: GPCNet).

Other Improvement

1. Enhancement

   • Add pipeline for AMD docker.
   • Integrate system config info script with SuperBench.
   • Support FP32 mode without TF32.
   • Refine unit test for microbenchmark.
   • Unify metric names for all benchmarks.

2. Document

   • Add benchmark list.
   • Add monitor document.
   • Add data diagnosis document.

Release SuperBench v0.3.0

SuperBench v0.3.0 Release Notes

SuperBench Framework

Runner

• Implement MPI mode.

Benchmarks

• Support Docker benchmark.

Single-node Validation

Micro Benchmarks

1. Memory (Tool: NVIDIA/AMD Bandwidth Test Tool)

   Metrics	Unit	Description
   H2D_Mem_BW_GPU	GB/s	host-to-GPU bandwidth for each GPU
   D2H_Mem_BW_GPU	GB/s	GPU-to-host bandwidth for each GPU

2. IBLoopback (Tool: PerfTest – Standard RDMA Test Tool)

   Metrics	Unit	Description
   IB_Write	MB/s	The IB write loopback throughput with different message sizes
   IB_Read	MB/s	The IB read loopback throughput with different message sizes
   IB_Send	MB/s	The IB send loopback throughput with different message sizes

3. NCCL/RCCL (Tool: NCCL/RCCL Tests)

   Metrics	Unit	Description
   NCCL_AllReduce	GB/s	The NCCL AllReduce performance with different message sizes
   NCCL_AllGather	GB/s	The NCCL AllGather performance with different message sizes
   NCCL_broadcast	GB/s	The NCCL Broadcast performance with different message sizes
   NCCL_reduce	GB/s	The NCCL Reduce performance with different message sizes
   NCCL_reduce_scatter	GB/s	The NCCL ReduceScatter performance with different message sizes

4. Disk (Tool: FIO – Standard Disk Performance Tool)

   Metrics	Unit	Description
   Seq_Read	MB/s	Sequential read performance
   Seq_Write	MB/s	Sequential write performance
   Rand_Read	MB/s	Random read performance
   Rand_Write	MB/s	Random write performance
   Seq_R/W_Read	MB/s	Read performance in sequential read/write, fixed measurement (read:write = 4:1)
   Seq_R/W_Write	MB/s	Write performance in sequential read/write (read:write = 4:1)
   Rand_R/W_Read	MB/s	Read performance in random read/write (read:write = 4:1)
   Rand_R/W_Write	MB/s	Write performance in random read/write (read:write = 4:1)

5. H2D/D2H SM Transmission Bandwidth (Tool: MSR-A build)

   Metrics	Unit	Description
   H2D_SM_BW_GPU	GB/s	host-to-GPU bandwidth using GPU kernel for each GPU
   D2H_SM_BW_GPU	GB/s	GPU-to-host bandwidth using GPU kernel for each GPU

AMD GPU Support

Docker Image Support

• ROCm 4.2 PyTorch 1.7.0
• ROCm 4.0 PyTorch 1.7.0

Micro Benchmarks

1. Kernel Launch (Tool: MSR-A build)

   Metrics	Unit	Description
   Kernel_Launch_Event_Time	Time (ms)	Dispatch latency measured in GPU time using hipEventRecord()
   Kernel_Launch_Wall_Time	Time (ms)	Dispatch latency measured in CPU time

2. GEMM FLOPS (Tool: AMD rocblas-bench Tool)

   Metrics	Unit	Description
   FP64	GFLOPS	FP64 FLOPS without MatrixCore
   FP32(MC)	GFLOPS	TF32 FLOPS with MatrixCore
   FP16(MC)	GFLOPS	FP16 FLOPS with MatrixCore
   BF16(MC)	GFLOPS	BF16 FLOPS with MatrixCore
   INT8(MC)	GOPS	INT8 FLOPS with MatrixCore

E2E Benchmarks

1. CNN models -- Use PyTorch torchvision models

   • ResNet: ResNet-50, ResNet-101, ResNet-152
   • DenseNet: DenseNet-169, DenseNet-201
   • VGG: VGG-11, VGG-13, VGG-16, VGG-19​

2. BERT -- Use huggingface Transformers

   • BERT
   • BERT Large

3. LSTM -- Use PyTorch

4. GPT-2 -- Use huggingface Transformers

Bug Fix

• VGG models failed on A100 GPU with batch_size=128

Other Improvement

1. Contribution related

   • Contribute rule
   • System information collection

2. Document

   • Add release process doc
   • Add design documents
   • Add developer guide doc for coding style
   • Add contribution rules
   • Add docker image list
   • Add initial validation results