run_text_generation_server_345M_8_tensor_parallel.sh

#!/bin/bash
# This example will start serving the 345M model that is partitioned 8 way tensor parallel
DISTRIBUTED_ARGS="--nproc_per_node 8 \
                  --nnodes 1 \
                  --node_rank 0 \
                  --master_addr localhost \
                  --master_port 6000"

CHECKPOINT=<Path to checkpoint (e.g /345m)>
VOCAB_FILE=<Path to vocab.json (e.g. /gpt2-vocab.json)>
MERGE_FILE=<Path to merges.txt (e.g. /gpt2-merges.txt)>

pip install flask-restful

python -m torch.distributed.launch $DISTRIBUTED_ARGS tools/run_text_generation_server.py   \
       --tensor-model-parallel-size 8  \
       --pipeline-model-parallel-size 1  \
       --num-layers 24  \
       --hidden-size 1024  \
       --load ${CHECKPOINT}  \
       --num-attention-heads 16  \
       --max-position-embeddings 1024  \
       --tokenizer-type GPT2BPETokenizer  \
       --fp16  \
       --micro-batch-size 1  \
       --seq-length 1024  \
       --out-seq-length 1024  \
       --temperature 1.0  \
       --vocab-file $VOCAB_FILE  \
       --merge-file $MERGE_FILE  \
       --top_p 0.9  \
       --seed 42