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Stage 7b-iii (1/2): AllReduce CustomOp + ShardedVarBuilder-backed TP linears
Ports the canonical
candle-examples/examples/llama_multiprocess/model.rs pattern into
the harness. Two new files, one deletion:

- harness/tp/all_reduce.rs — AllReduce wraps Arc<cudarc::nccl::Comm>
  and implements candle's CustomOp1 trait. cuda_fwd extracts the
  rank's CudaSlice<dtype> from a CudaStorage, asserts the input is
  contiguous (a strided activation hitting all_reduce is almost
  always a model construction bug), allocates an output CudaSlice
  on the same device, calls Comm::all_reduce(Sum), and wraps the
  result back as a CudaStorage. Handles BF16, F16, F32. NcclError
  surfaces via {e:?} (no Display impl in cudarc 0.19.x). Send/Sync
  hand-impl'd with the same NCCL-thread-safety caveat candle's
  example documents.

- harness/tp/tp_linear.rs — ColumnParallelLinear and
  RowParallelLinear, both built on candle's ShardedVarBuilder +
  Shard hints. `vb.get_with_hints((), "weight", shard(dim, rank, ws))`
  reads JUST the rank's slice from the safetensors view; no full-
  tensor host materialisation. ColumnParallel.forward is a plain
  local matmul (output is naturally sharded). RowParallel.forward =
  local matmul + apply_op1_no_bwd(&self.all_reduce). On CPU /
  world_size == 1, the AllReduce is skipped and the partial output
  is returned as-is. Both layers are no-bias — every Qwen3-family
  target sets attention_bias=false; bias-aware sharding is a
  future-model concern.

- Deletes harness/tp/sharded_linear.rs from 7b-ii. That commit's
  hand-rolled "load full + narrow" approach was useful exploration
  but candle's ShardedVarBuilder does the same work without
  materialising the full tensor on host. The 5 unit tests there
  verified the slicing math against an unsharded reference; that
  math now lives inside candle and is covered by candle's own tests.

Next (7b-iii 2/2): TpQwen3Attention + TpQwen3MLP composing the
column/row pair, then a TpQwen3Model that runs the full forward.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-19 18:14:54 +03:00
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