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Maicon Melo Alves
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Maicon Melo Alves

Dr. Maicon Melo Alves is a senior system analyst and academic professor specialized in High Performance Computing (HPC) systems. In the last five years, he got interested in understanding how HPC systems have been used to leverage Artificial Intelligence applications. To better understand this topic, he completed in 2021 the MBA in Data Science of Pontifícia Universidade Católica of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-RIO). He has over 25 years of experience in IT infrastructure and, since 2006, he works with HPC systems at Petrobras, the Brazilian energy state company. He obtained his D.Sc. degree in Computer Science from the Fluminense Federal University (UFF) in 2018 and possesses three published books and publications in international journals of HPC area.
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Implementing distributed training on multiple machines

This section shows how to implement and run the distributed training on multiple machines by using Open MPI as the launch provider and NCCL as the communication backend. Let’s start by introducing Open MPI.

Getting introduced to Open MPI

MPI stands for message passing interface and is a standard that specifies a set of communication routines, data types, events, and operations used to implement distributed memory-based applications. MPI is so relevant to the HPC industry that it is ruled and maintained by a forum comprised of distinguished scientists, researchers, and professionals around the globe.

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You can find more information about MPI at this link: https://www.mpi-forum.org/

Therefore, MPI, strictly speaking, is not software; it is a standard specification that can be used to implement a software, tool, or library. Like non-proprietary programming languages such as C and Python, MPI also has many...

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Maicon Melo Alves

Dr. Maicon Melo Alves is a senior system analyst and academic professor specialized in High Performance Computing (HPC) systems. In the last five years, he got interested in understanding how HPC systems have been used to leverage Artificial Intelligence applications. To better understand this topic, he completed in 2021 the MBA in Data Science of Pontifícia Universidade Católica of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-RIO). He has over 25 years of experience in IT infrastructure and, since 2006, he works with HPC systems at Petrobras, the Brazilian energy state company. He obtained his D.Sc. degree in Computer Science from the Fluminense Federal University (UFF) in 2018 and possesses three published books and publications in international journals of HPC area.
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