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:description: Stanford Megatron-LM compatibility
:keywords: Stanford, Megatron-LM, deep learning, framework compatibility
.. version-set:: rocm_version latest
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Stanford Megatron-LM compatibility
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Stanford Megatron-LM is a large-scale language model training framework developed
by NVIDIA at `https://github.com/NVIDIA/Megatron-LM <https://github.com/NVIDIA/Megatron-LM>`_.
It is designed to train massive transformer-based language models efficiently by model
and data parallelism.
It provides efficient tensor, pipeline, and sequence-based model parallelism for
pre-training transformer-based language models such as GPT (Decoder Only), BERT
(Encoder Only), and T5 (Encoder-Decoder).
Support overview
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- The ROCm-supported version of Stanford Megatron-LM is maintained in the official `https://github.com/ROCm/Stanford-Megatron-LM
<https://github.com/ROCm/Stanford-Megatron-LM>`__ repository, which differs from the
`https://github.com/stanford-futuredata/Megatron-LM <https://github.com/stanford-futuredata/Megatron-LM>`__ upstream repository.
- To get started and install Stanford Megatron-LM on ROCm, use the prebuilt :ref:`Docker image <megatron-lm-docker-compat>`,
which includes ROCm, Stanford Megatron-LM, and all required dependencies.
- See the :doc:`ROCm Stanford Megatron-LM installation guide <rocm-install-on-linux:install/3rd-party/stanford-megatron-lm-install>`
for installation and setup instructions.
- You can also consult the upstream `Installation guide <https://github.com/NVIDIA/Megatron-LM>`__
for additional context.
Version support
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Stanford Megatron-LM is supported on `ROCm 6.3.0 <https://repo.radeon.com/rocm/apt/6.3/>`__.
Supported devices
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- **Officially Supported**: AMD Instinct™ MI300X
- **Partially Supported** (functionality or performance limitations): AMD Instinct™ MI250X, MI210
Supported models and features
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This section details models & features that are supported by the ROCm version on Stanford Megatron-LM.
Models:
* BERT
* GPT
* T5
* ICT
Features:
* Distributed Pre-training
* Activation Checkpointing and Recomputation
* Distributed Optimizer
* Mixture-of-Experts
.. _megatron-lm-recommendations:
Use cases and recommendations
================================================================================
The following blog post mentions Megablocks, but you can run Stanford Megatron-LM with the same steps to pre-process datasets on AMD GPUs:
* The `Efficient MoE training on AMD ROCm: How-to use Megablocks on AMD GPUs
<https://rocm.blogs.amd.com/artificial-intelligence/megablocks/README.html>`__
blog post guides how to leverage the ROCm platform for pre-training using the
Megablocks framework. It introduces a streamlined approach for training Mixture-of-Experts
(MoE) models using the Megablocks library on AMD hardware. Focusing on GPT-2, it
demonstrates how block-sparse computations can enhance scalability and efficiency in MoE
training. The guide provides step-by-step instructions for setting up the environment,
including cloning the repository, building the Docker image, and running the training container.
Additionally, it offers insights into utilizing the ``oscar-1GB.json`` dataset for pre-training
language models. By leveraging Megablocks and the ROCm platform, you can optimize your MoE
training workflows for large-scale transformer models.
It features how to pre-process datasets and how to begin pre-training on AMD GPUs through:
* Single-GPU pre-training
* Multi-GPU pre-training
.. _megatron-lm-docker-compat:
Docker image compatibility
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.. |docker-icon| raw:: html
<i class="fab fa-docker"></i>
AMD validates and publishes `Stanford Megatron-LM images <https://hub.docker.com/r/rocm/stanford-megatron-lm/tags>`_
with ROCm and Pytorch backends on Docker Hub. The following Docker image tags and associated
inventories represent the latest Stanford Megatron-LM version from the official Docker Hub.
Click |docker-icon| to view the image on Docker Hub.
.. list-table::
:header-rows: 1
:class: docker-image-compatibility
* - Docker image
- ROCm
- Stanford Megatron-LM
- PyTorch
- Ubuntu
- Python
* - .. raw:: html
<a href="https://hub.docker.com/layers/rocm/stanford-megatron-lm/stanford-megatron-lm85f95ae_rocm6.3.0_ubuntu24.04_py3.12_pytorch2.4.0/images/sha256-070556f078be10888a1421a2cb4f48c29f28b02bfeddae02588d1f7fc02a96a6"><i class="fab fa-docker fa-lg"></i></a>
- `6.3.0 <https://repo.radeon.com/rocm/apt/6.3/>`_
- `85f95ae <https://github.com/stanford-futuredata/Megatron-LM/commit/85f95aef3b648075fe6f291c86714fdcbd9cd1f5>`_
- `2.4.0 <https://github.com/ROCm/pytorch/tree/release/2.4>`_
- 24.04
- `3.12.9 <https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3129/>`_