added broadcast option to tpu

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](http://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/).
 
 - Added support for datamodule in learning rate finder ([#3425](https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning/pull/3425))
 
+- Added `broadcast` to `TPUBackend` ([#3814](https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning/pull/3814))
+
 ### Changed
 
 - Changed `LearningRateLogger` to `LearningRateMonitor` ([#3251](https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning/pull/3251))

pytorch_lightning/accelerators/tpu_backend.py

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 # WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
-
+import io
 import os
 import re
 
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 from pytorch_lightning import _logger as log
 from pytorch_lightning.accelerators.base_backend import Accelerator
 from pytorch_lightning.core import LightningModule
+from pytorch_lightning.distributed import LightningDistributed
 from pytorch_lightning.utilities import AMPType, rank_zero_info, rank_zero_only, rank_zero_warn
 from pytorch_lightning.utilities.cloud_io import atomic_save
 from pytorch_lightning.utilities.exceptions import MisconfigurationException
@@ -316,3 +317,13 @@ def transfer_distrib_spawn_state_on_fit_end(self, model, mp_queue, results):
                 last_path = re.sub('.ckpt', '.tmp_end.ckpt', best_model_path)
                 atomic_save(model.state_dict(), last_path)
             mp_queue.put(last_path)
+
+    def broadcast(self, obj, src=0):
+        buffer = io.BytesIO()
+        torch.save(obj, buffer)
+        data = bytearray(buffer.getbuffer())
+        data_tensor = torch.tensor(data).to(xm.xla_device(), dtype=torch.float)
+        data = xm.all_gather(data_tensor)
+        buffer = io.BytesIO(data.cpu().byte().numpy())
+        obj = torch.load(buffer)
+        return obj

tests/models/test_tpu.py

@@ -5,20 +5,17 @@
 
 import tests.base.develop_pipelines as tpipes
 from pytorch_lightning import Trainer, seed_everything
+from pytorch_lightning.accelerators import TPUBackend
 from pytorch_lightning.utilities.exceptions import MisconfigurationException
 from tests.base import EvalModelTemplate
 from tests.base.datasets import TrialMNIST
 from tests.base.develop_utils import pl_multi_process_test
 
 try:
     import torch_xla
+    import torch_xla.core.xla_model as xm
     import torch_xla.distributed.xla_multiprocessing as xmp
-
     SERIAL_EXEC = xmp.MpSerialExecutor()
-    # TODO: The tests are aborted if the following lines are uncommented. Must be resolved with XLA team
-    # device = torch_xla.core.xla_model.xla_device()
-    # device_type = torch_xla.core.xla_model.xla_device_hw(device)
-    # TPU_AVAILABLE = device_type == 'TPU'
 except ImportError:
     TPU_AVAILABLE = False
 else:
@@ -272,3 +269,17 @@ def test_result_obj_on_tpu(tmpdir):
     )
 
     tpipes.run_model_test(trainer_options, model, on_gpu=False, with_hpc=False)
+
+
+@pytest.mark.skipif(not TPU_AVAILABLE, reason="test requires TPU machine")
+@pl_multi_process_test
+def test_broadcast_on_tpu():
+    """ Checks if an object from the master process is broadcasted to other processes correctly"""
+    def test_broadcast(rank):
+        trainer = Trainer(tpu_cores=8)
+        backend = TPUBackend(trainer)
+        obj = ("ver_0.5", "logger_name", rank)
+        result = backend.broadcast(obj)
+        assert result == ("ver_0.5", "logger_name", 0)
+
+    xmp.spawn(test_broadcast, nprocs=8, start_method='fork')