IX2-0433

① SA Source

Context Before

The above configurations use only DP+EP (also known as DEP), where each GPU holds a full replica of all non-expert weights. As GPU count grows, this replication becomes increasingly wasteful. On a 64-GPU DP64/EP64 deployment, every GPU stores an identical copy of the ~40B non-expert parameters.

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.

Evidence

Adding TP introduces a second all-reduce within each TP group for the attention and non-expert computations

Context After

As always, the tradeoff is that of throughput versus latency. TP=8 within a group means those 8 GPUs now share a batch and must synchronize every decode step, reducing effective DP degree from 64 to 8. Per-GPU batching independence on the attention side is lost. But each DP group now processes attention 8x faster per step, since the matmul is split 8 ways across the TP group. Per-token latency drops while peak concurrency also drops, sliding the configuration along the latency-throughput Pareto frontier relative to pure DEP.

Disaggregated Prefill

② Atomic Claim

加入 TP 後,attention 與 non-expert computations 會在每個 TP group 內多出第二種 all-reduce 通訊。

  • Epistemic Mode: ASSERTED
  • Mapping Status: COMPLETE

③ Semantic Frame

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  "context_nodes": [],
  "entity": {
    "id": "04_knowledge_base/All-Reduce",
    "label": "all-reduce"
  },
  "frame_type": "ATTRIBUTE",
  "qualifiers": {
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    "numeric_mentions": [],
    "temporal_mentions": []
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  "value": {
    "numeric_mentions": [],
    "value_text": "加入 TP 後,attention 與 non-expert computations 會在每個 TP group 內多出第二種 all-reduce 通訊。"
  }
}

④ Canonical Entity Mapping

RoleSurface LabelCanonical Target
entityall-reduceAll-Reduce

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。