PPoPP 2023
Sat 25 February - Wed 1 March 2023 Montreal, Canada
Wed 1 Mar 2023 11:00 - 11:20 at Montreal 4 - Session 7: Machine Learning Chair(s): Milind Kulkarni

Jointly utilizing multiple GPUs to train graph neural networks (GNNs) is crucial for handling large graphs and achieving high efficiency. However, we find that existing systems suffer from \textit{high communication costs} and \textit{low GPU utilization} due to improper data layout and training procedures. Thus, we propose a system dubbed Distributed Sampling and Pipelining (DSP) for multi-GPU GNN training. DSP adopts a tailored data layout to utilize the fast NVLink connections among the GPUs, which stores the graph topology and popular node features in GPU memory. For efficient graph sampling with multiple GPUs, we introduce a \textit{collective sampling primitive} (CSP), which pushes the sampling tasks to data to reduce communication. We also design a \textit{producer-consumer-based pipeline}, which allows tasks from different mini-batches to run congruently to improve GPU utilization. We compare DSP with state-of-the-art GNN training frameworks, and the results show that DSP consistently outperforms the baselines under different datasets, GNN models and GPU counts. The speedup of DSP can be an order of magnitude and is over 2x in most cases.

Wed 1 Mar

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10:00 - 11:40
Session 7: Machine LearningMain Conference at Montreal 4
Chair(s): Milind Kulkarni Purdue University
10:00
20m
Talk
TGOpt: Redundancy-Aware Optimizations for Temporal Graph Attention Networks
Main Conference
Yufeng Wang University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Charith Mendis University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
10:20
20m
Talk
Dynamic N:M Fine-grained Structured Sparse Attention Mechanism
Main Conference
Zhaodong Chen University of California, Santa Barbara, Zheng Qu University of California, Santa Barbara, Yuying Quan University of California, Santa Barbara, Liu Liu , Yufei Ding UC Santa Barbara, Yuan Xie UCSB
10:40
20m
Talk
Elastic Averaging for Efficient Pipelined DNN Training
Main Conference
Zihao Chen East China Normal University, Chen Xu East China Normal University, Weining Qian East China Normal University, Aoying Zhou East China Normal University
11:00
20m
Talk
DSP: Efficient GNN Training with Multiple GPUs
Main Conference
Zhenkun Cai The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Qihui Zhou The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Xiao Yan Southern University of Science and Technology, Da Zheng Amazon Web Services, Xiang Song Amazon Web Services, Chenguang Zheng The Chinese University of Hong Kong, James Cheng The Chinese University of Hong Kong, George Karypis Amazon Web Services
11:20
20m
Talk
PiPAD: Pipelined and Parallel Dynamic GNN Training on GPUs
Main Conference
Chunyang Wang Beihang University, Desen Sun Beihang University, Yuebin Bai Beihang University