#sdy Initial set of changes to allow for lowering to the Shardy dialect.
The OpenXLA project is working on an open source, MLIR, named-axis based propagation (and in the future SP<D partitioning) system that will be dialect agnostic (would work for any dialect - MHLO, StableHLO, YourDialect). We plan on having frontends like JAX and PyTorch target this when using XLA and wanting SPMD propagation/partitioning. See www.github.com/openxla/shardy for more info.
Currently Shardy is implemented inside the XLA compiler, requiring us to round-trip between StableHLO and HLO with mhlo.shardings. But we will eventually make Shardy the first pass in the XLA pipeline while it's still working on StableHLO. Partitioning (the system that adds the collectives like all-gathers/all-reduces) will still be the GSPMD Partitioner, but next year the Shardy partitioner will be developed, allowing for propagation and partitioning to be completely in MLIR and the first pass in the pipeline. So then we'd have:
#sdy Initial set of changes to allow for lowering to the Shardy dialect.
The OpenXLA project is working on an open source, MLIR, named-axis based propagation (and in the future SP<D partitioning) system that will be dialect agnostic (would work for any dialect - MHLO, StableHLO, YourDialect). We plan on having frontends like JAX and PyTorch target this when using XLA and wanting SPMD propagation/partitioning. See www.github.com/openxla/shardy for more info.
Currently Shardy is implemented inside the XLA compiler, requiring us to round-trip between StableHLO and HLO with
mhlo.sharding
s. But we will eventually make Shardy the first pass in the XLA pipeline while it's still working on StableHLO. Partitioning (the system that adds the collectives like all-gathers/all-reduces) will still be the GSPMD Partitioner, but next year the Shardy partitioner will be developed, allowing for propagation and partitioning to be completely in MLIR and the first pass in the pipeline. So then we'd have:The following test:
outputs:
Shardy will be hidden behind the
jax_use_shardy_partitioner
flag initially before becoming enabled by default in the future.