IX2-0425

① SA Source

Context Before

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_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

Evidence

As GPU count grows, this replication becomes increasingly wasteful

Context After

Adding tensor parallelism within groups of GPUs addresses this. In an EP64/DP8/TP8 configuration, the 64 GPUs are organized into 8 DP groups of 8 GPUs each. Within each TP group, the attention projections, shared expert, normalization, and LM head are sharded 8 ways, so each GPU holds only 1/8th of the non-expert weights. Across the full cluster, the 256 experts are still distributed one-per-4-GPUs as before.

Pure DEP has a single communication pattern: all-to-all for expert routing. Adding TP introduces a second all-reduce within each TP group for the attention and non-expert computations. The key design principle is to place TP groups within a single node, where NVLink or MNNVL provides high-bandwidth interconnect, and run EP/DP across nodes, where the all-to-all communication pattern can tolerate higher latency.

② Atomic Claim

GPU 數量增加,這種 replication 會越來越浪費記憶體。

  • Epistemic Mode: ASSERTED
  • Mapping Status: COMPLETE

③ Semantic Frame

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  "entity": {
    "id": "04_knowledge_base/GPU",
    "label": "GPU"
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  "frame_type": "ATTRIBUTE",
  "qualifiers": {
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    "numeric_mentions": [],
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  "value": {
    "numeric_mentions": [],
    "value_text": "隨 GPU 數量增加,這種 replication 會越來越浪費記憶體。"
  }
}

④ Canonical Entity Mapping

RoleSurface LabelCanonical Target
entityGPUGPU

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。