add P2P env when multi-gpu but not the full node (#2041)

Co-authored-by: Wing Lian <[email protected]>

src/axolotl/utils/environment.py

@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+"""
+utils to get GPU info for the current environment
+"""
+from accelerate.utils.environment import (
+    check_cuda_p2p_ib_support as accelerate_check_cuda_p2p_ib_support,
+)
+from accelerate.utils.environment import get_gpu_info
+
+
+def check_cuda_p2p_ib_support():
+    if not accelerate_check_cuda_p2p_ib_support():
+        return False
+    unsupported_devices = {"RTX 6000 Ada"}
+    try:
+        device_names, device_count = get_gpu_info()
+        if 1 < device_count < 8:
+            if any(
+                device_name in unsupported_device
+                for device_name in device_names
+                for unsupported_device in unsupported_devices
+            ):
+                return False
+    except Exception:  # pylint: disable=broad-except # nosec
+        pass
+    return True

src/axolotl/utils/trainer.py

@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 
 from axolotl.core.trainer_builder import HFCausalTrainerBuilder, HFRLTrainerBuilder
 from axolotl.utils.distributed import reduce_and_broadcast
+from axolotl.utils.environment import check_cuda_p2p_ib_support
 from axolotl.utils.samplers import MultipackBatchSampler, get_dataset_lengths
 
 LOG = get_logger("axolotl")
@@ -461,6 +462,9 @@ def setup_fsdp_envs(cfg):
 
 
 def prepare_optim_env(cfg):
+    if not check_cuda_p2p_ib_support():
+        if os.getenv("NCCL_P2P_DISABLE") is None:
+            os.environ["NCCL_P2P_DISABLE"] = "1"
     if cfg.fsdp:
         setup_fsdp_envs(cfg)
     elif cfg.deepspeed: