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① SA Source

• Source: 開啟完整 SA 文章
• Section: WideEP
• Line hint: 646

Context Before

The obvious way to scale is replication: deploy N independent EP8 instances across N nodes. Each instance serves requests independently with no cross-node communication. This scales throughput linearly, but each GPU still holds 32 experts per layer, and each token activates at most 8 of those 32 local experts. 75% of expert weights sit cold in HBM.

Wide expert parallelism (WideEP) takes a different approach by scaling EP _across _nodes rather than replicating independent instances. On a 64-GPU cluster (8 nodes), DP64/EP64 places only 256/64 = 4 experts per layer per GPU, each still holding a full replica of the non-expert weights. During the MoE phase, tokens from all 64 DP ranks are dispatched via all-to-all to the GPUs hosting their routed experts.

Evidence

The same expert weights service 8x more tokens per step

Context After

_A WideEP EP64 DP64 deployment of DeepSeek R1. All 256 experts per layer are divided evenly among the 64 GPUs (8 nodes), and attention and other non-expert weights (shared expert, gating network, RMSNorm, LM head, etc.) are replicated across all 64 DP ranks. _Source: SemiAnalysis

② Atomic Claim

關於 EP：同一組 expert weights 在每個 step 可服務約 8 倍 tokens。

• Epistemic Mode: ASSERTED
• Mapping Status: PARTIAL

③ Semantic Frame

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  "comparison_expression": "關於 EP：同一組 expert weights 在每個 step 可服務約 8 倍 tokens。",
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    {
      "id": "04_knowledge_base/Expert Parallelism",
      "label": "EP"
    }
  ],
  "frame_type": "COMPARISON",
  "metric": "COUNT",
  "operator": "MULTIPLE_OF",
  "qualifiers": {
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    "numeric_mentions": [
      "8"
    ],
    "temporal_mentions": []
  }
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④ Canonical Entity Mapping

Role	Surface Label	Canonical Target
comparison_entity_0	EP	04_knowledge_base/Expert Parallelism

⑤ Human Review

請在 Properties 逐項確認：

• 原文 → Atomic Claim 是否忠實
• Atomic Claim → Semantic Frame 是否忠實
• Canonical Entity mapping 是否正確
• Epistemic mode 是否保留原文語氣
• 最後選擇 review_action

Review state

Markdown 內文不是正式 approval。只有 Apply bridge 寫入的 Decision Ledger event 才是正式決策。