Intel announces a major enhancement for distributed training in PyTorch 2.8: the native integration of the XCCL backend for Intel® GPUs (Intel® XPU devices). This provides support for Intel® oneAPI Collective Communications Library (oneCCL) directly into PyTorch, giving developers a seamless, out-of-the-box experience to scale AI workloads on Intel hardware. | pytorch.org
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As training jobs become larger, the likelihood of failures such as preemptions, crashes, or infrastructure instability rises. This can lead to significant inefficiencies in training and delays in time-to-market. At these large scales, efficient distributed checkpointing is crucial to mitigate the negative impact of failures and to optimize overall training efficiency (training goodput).| pytorch.org
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