venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/deepspeed/comm/backend.py

# Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation.
# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0

# DeepSpeed Team
"""
DeepSpeed Communication Backend.

In the future, directly use NCCL/MPI/Gloo/etc without requiring torch.distributed. Simply wrap torch.distributed for now.

# Custom DS Backends -- Direct C/Ops
 - NCCL -- [EXPERIMENTAL]
 - MPI -- [EXPERIMENTAL]
 - RCCL -- [EXPERIMENTAL]
 - GLOO -- [EXPERIMENTAL]
# DS backend wrapper for torch.distributed [DEFAULT]
 - T-NCCL -- [DEFAULT]
 - T-GLOO
 - T-MPI

# Backend is the base class
     -- NcclBackend, MpiBackend, and TorchBackend are the main subclasses. TorchBackend is the only officially supported backend for now.
"""


class Backend(object):

    def __init__(self, name='backend', rank=0, size=1):
        self.name = name
        # The world size and rank of the world process group
        self.world_group = None
        self.world_size = size
        self.world_rank = rank
        # Single process group (pg) implementation for now but keep a list for future
        self.process_groups = []
        self.initialized = False

    def is_initialized(self):
        return self.initialized

    def new_group(self):
        # create a new pg and add it to pg list
        pass

    def init_process_group(self):
        # subclasses will initialize them fully
        # - initialize a default world process group and add it to pg list
        self.initialized = True