Releasing SuperBench v0.3

We are very happy to announce that SuperBench 0.3.0 version is officially released today!

You can install and try superbench by following Getting Started Tutorial.

SuperBench 0.3.0 Release Notes

SuperBench Framework

Runner

• Implement MPI mode.

Benchmarks

• Support Docker benchmark.

Single-node Validation

Micro Benchmarks

1. Memory (Tool: NVIDIA/AMD Bandwidth Test Tool)

   Metrics	Unit	Description
   H2D_Mem_BW_GPU	GB/s	host-to-GPU bandwidth for each GPU
   D2H_Mem_BW_GPU	GB/s	GPU-to-host bandwidth for each GPU

2. IBLoopback (Tool: PerfTest – Standard RDMA Test Tool)

   Metrics	Unit	Description
   IB_Write	MB/s	The IB write loopback throughput with different message sizes
   IB_Read	MB/s	The IB read loopback throughput with different message sizes
   IB_Send	MB/s	The IB send loopback throughput with different message sizes

3. NCCL/RCCL (Tool: NCCL/RCCL Tests)

   Metrics	Unit	Description
   NCCL_AllReduce	GB/s	The NCCL AllReduce performance with different message sizes
   NCCL_AllGather	GB/s	The NCCL AllGather performance with different message sizes
   NCCL_broadcast	GB/s	The NCCL Broadcast performance with different message sizes
   NCCL_reduce	GB/s	The NCCL Reduce performance with different message sizes
   NCCL_reduce_scatter	GB/s	The NCCL ReduceScatter performance with different message sizes

4. Disk (Tool: FIO – Standard Disk Performance Tool)

   Metrics	Unit	Description
   Seq_Read	MB/s	Sequential read performance
   Seq_Write	MB/s	Sequential write performance
   Rand_Read	MB/s	Random read performance
   Rand_Write	MB/s	Random write performance
   Seq_R/W_Read	MB/s	Read performance in sequential read/write, fixed measurement (read:write = 4:1)
   Seq_R/W_Write	MB/s	Write performance in sequential read/write (read:write = 4:1)
   Rand_R/W_Read	MB/s	Read performance in random read/write (read:write = 4:1)
   Rand_R/W_Write	MB/s	Write performance in random read/write (read:write = 4:1)

5. H2D/D2H SM Transmission Bandwidth (Tool: MSR-A build)

   Metrics	Unit	Description
   H2D_SM_BW_GPU	GB/s	host-to-GPU bandwidth using GPU kernel for each GPU
   D2H_SM_BW_GPU	GB/s	GPU-to-host bandwidth using GPU kernel for each GPU

AMD GPU Support

Docker Image Support

• ROCm 4.2 PyTorch 1.7.0
• ROCm 4.0 PyTorch 1.7.0

Micro Benchmarks

1. Kernel Launch (Tool: MSR-A build)

   Metrics	Unit	Description
   Kernel_Launch_Event_Time	Time (ms)	Dispatch latency measured in GPU time using hipEventRecord()
   Kernel_Launch_Wall_Time	Time (ms)	Dispatch latency measured in CPU time

2. GEMM FLOPS (Tool: AMD rocblas-bench Tool)

   Metrics	Unit	Description
   FP64	GFLOPS	FP64 FLOPS without MatrixCore
   FP32(MC)	GFLOPS	TF32 FLOPS with MatrixCore
   FP16(MC)	GFLOPS	FP16 FLOPS with MatrixCore
   BF16(MC)	GFLOPS	BF16 FLOPS with MatrixCore
   INT8(MC)	GOPS	INT8 FLOPS with MatrixCore

E2E Benchmarks

1. CNN models -- Use PyTorch torchvision models

   • ResNet: ResNet-50, ResNet-101, ResNet-152
   • DenseNet: DenseNet-169, DenseNet-201
   • VGG: VGG-11, VGG-13, VGG-16, VGG-19​

2. BERT -- Use huggingface Transformers

   • BERT
   • BERT Large

3. LSTM -- Use PyTorch

4. GPT-2 -- Use huggingface Transformers

Bug Fix

• VGG models failed on A100 GPU with batch_size=128

Other Improvement

1. Contribution related

   • Contribute rule
   • System information collection

2. Document

   • Add release process doc
   • Add design documents
   • Add developer guide doc for coding style
   • Add contribution rules
   • Add docker image list
   • Add initial validation results