distributed.py

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"""Utilities for distributed training."""

import os

import torch.distributed

from verl.utils.device import get_nccl_backend, get_torch_device


def initialize_global_process_group(timeout_second=36000):
    from datetime import timedelta

    torch.distributed.init_process_group(
        get_nccl_backend(),
        timeout=timedelta(seconds=timeout_second),
        init_method=os.environ.get("DIST_INIT_METHOD", None),
    )
    local_rank = int(os.environ["LOCAL_RANK"])
    rank = int(os.environ["RANK"])
    world_size = int(os.environ["WORLD_SIZE"])

    if torch.distributed.is_initialized():
        get_torch_device().set_device(local_rank)
    return local_rank, rank, world_size


def destroy_global_process_group():
    if torch.distributed.is_initialized():
        torch.distributed.destroy_process_group()