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    Grid optimization - Chunk_Size optimization. (#104) · b047a1f1
    aspanday authored
    * Updating BLOCK_SIZE to 1024.
    tests/L0/run_optimizers/test_fused_optimizer.py test passes except for bfloat16 for Adam. There seems to be a bug in this test that needs to be resolved.
    For now skipping test_bfloat16 for Adam in the unittest.
    Ran 17 other tests and ALL other tests pass!
    More details on the effects of these changes can be found here -  https://confluence.amd.com/display/MLSE/Apex+Kernel+Optimization.
    This commit changes BLOCK_SIZE=1024 ONLY FOR different optimizers.
    L2norm kernels (part of LAMB optimizer algorithm) still maintain BLOCK_SIZE=512 otherwise Allclose fails.
    
    * Updating tests/L0/run_optimizers/test_fused_optimizer.py with @skipifRocm to skip test_bfloat16 in Adam.
    
    * Updating chunk_size to 256*32 (8K) which was previously 2048*32 (64K).
    In addition updating depth_to_max_blocks to 2560 (8x compared to previous 320).
    The performance improvement observed is upto 1.4x for large number of elements, upto 5.2x for moderate...
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