About Alpa
Alpa is a system designed to simplify the process of training and serving large-scale neural networks. It is particularly useful for handling neural networks with hundreds of billions of parameters, such as GPT-3. Alpa’s goal is to automate the complex distributed system techniques required for large-scale distributed training and serving, making it accessible with just a few lines of code.
Here are three key features of Alpa
- Automatic Parallelization: Alpa can automatically parallelize single-device code on distributed clusters. This includes data, operator, and pipeline parallelism, making it easier to scale your applications.
- Excellent Performance: Alpa is designed to achieve linear scaling when training models with billions of parameters on distributed clusters. This ensures that your models can be trained efficiently, even at a large scale.
- Tight Integration with Machine Learning Ecosystem: Alpa is backed by open-source, high-performance, and production-ready libraries such as Jax, XLA, and Ray. This integration ensures that Alpa can work seamlessly with your existing machine learning workflows.