Add support for torchrun to DGXC Executor

DGX Cloud uses the PyTorch Training Operator from KubeFlow under the
hood to launch jobs. This handles many of the variables necessary for
running distributed PyTorch jobs with torchrun and only a subset of
settings are required to launch the job as the original default
settings will conflict with the auto-configured setup from DGX Cloud.

Signed-Off-By: Robert Clark <[email protected]>

Author: roclark

src/nemo_run/core/execution/__init__.py

@@ -17,4 +17,4 @@
 from nemo_run.core.execution.skypilot import SkypilotExecutor
 from nemo_run.core.execution.slurm import SlurmExecutor
 
-__all__ = ["LocalExecutor", "SlurmExecutor", "SkypilotExecutor"]
+__all__ = ["LocalExecutor", "SlurmExecutor", "SkypilotExecutor", "DGXCloudExecutor"]

src/nemo_run/core/execution/dgxcloud.py

@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ def create_distributed_job(
         return response
 
     def launch(self, name: str, cmd: list[str]) -> tuple[str, str]:
-        name = name.replace("_", "-")  # to meet K8s requirements
+        name = name.replace("_", "-").replace(".", "-")  # to meet K8s requirements
         token = self.get_auth_token()
         if not token:
             raise RuntimeError("Failed to get auth token")
@@ -156,6 +156,12 @@ def launch(self, name: str, cmd: list[str]) -> tuple[str, str]:
         status = r_json["actualPhase"]
         return job_id, status
 
+    def nnodes(self) -> int:
+        return self.nodes
+
+    def nproc_per_node(self) -> int:
+        return self.gpus_per_node
+
     def status(self, job_id: str) -> Optional[DGXCloudState]:
         url = f"{self.base_url}/workloads/distributed/{job_id}"
         token = self.get_auth_token()

src/nemo_run/run/torchx_backend/components/torchrun.py

@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ def torchrun(
     rdzv_backend: str = "c10d",
     mounts: Optional[list[str]] = None,
     debug: bool = False,
+    dgxc: bool = False,
 ) -> specs.AppDef:
     """
     Distributed data parallel style application (one role, multi-replica).
@@ -92,6 +93,7 @@ def torchrun(
         mounts: mounts to mount into the worker environment/container (ex. type=<bind/volume>,src=/host,dst=/job[,readonly]).
                 See scheduler documentation for more info.
         debug: whether to run with preset debug flags enabled
+        dgxc: whether to use a subset of settings for DGX Cloud
     """
     if (script is None) == (m is None):
         raise ValueError("exactly one of --script and -m must be specified")
@@ -130,24 +132,27 @@ def torchrun(
     if debug:
         env.update(_TORCH_DEBUG_FLAGS)
 
-    cmd = [
-        "--rdzv-backend",
-        rdzv_backend,
-        "--rdzv-endpoint",
-        rdzv_endpoint,
-        "--rdzv-id",
-        f"{random.randint(1, 10000)}",
-        "--nnodes",
-        num_nodes,
-        "--nproc-per-node",
-        nproc_per_node,
-        "--node-rank",
-        node_rank,
-        "--tee",
-        "3",
-        # "--role",
-        # "",
-    ]
+    if dgxc:
+        cmd = ["--nnodes", nnodes_rep, "--nproc-per-node", nproc_per_node]
+    else:
+        cmd = [
+            "--rdzv-backend",
+            rdzv_backend,
+            "--rdzv-endpoint",
+            rdzv_endpoint,
+            "--rdzv-id",
+            f"{random.randint(1, 10000)}",
+            "--nnodes",
+            num_nodes,
+            "--nproc-per-node",
+            nproc_per_node,
+            "--node-rank",
+            node_rank,
+            "--tee",
+            "3",
+            # "--role",
+            # "",
+        ]
     if script is not None:
         if no_python:
             cmd += ["--no-python"]

src/nemo_run/run/torchx_backend/packaging.py

@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 
 from nemo_run.config import SCRIPTS_DIR, Partial, Script
 from nemo_run.core.execution.base import Executor, FaultTolerance, Torchrun
+from nemo_run.core.execution.dgxcloud import DGXCloudExecutor
 from nemo_run.core.execution.local import LocalExecutor
 from nemo_run.core.serialization.yaml import YamlSerializer
 from nemo_run.core.serialization.zlib_json import ZlibJSONSerializer
@@ -139,6 +140,7 @@ def package(
             mounts=mounts,
             debug=executor.packager.debug,
             max_retries=executor.retries,
+            dgxc=isinstance(executor, DGXCloudExecutor),
         )
     elif launcher and isinstance(launcher, FaultTolerance):
         app_def = ft_launcher.ft_launcher(