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  • Quick Links
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  • Get Started with Neuron
  • Samples and Tutorials
    • Training on Trn1
    • Inference on Inf2 and Trn1
    • Inference on Inf1
  • Performance
  • What’s New
  • Announcements

ML Frameworks

  • PyTorch Neuron
    • Pytorch Neuron Setup
    • Inference (Inf2, Trn1, Trn2)
      • Tutorials
        • Compiling and Deploying HuggingFace Pretrained BERT on Trn1 or Inf2
        • BERT TorchServe Tutorial
        • LibTorch C++ Tutorial
        • Compiling and Deploying ResNet50 on Trn1 or Inf2
        • T5 model inference on Trn1 or Inf2
      • Additional Examples
        • AWS Neuron Samples GitHub Repository
        • Transformers Neuron GitHub samples
      • API Reference Guide
        • PyTorch NeuronX Tracing API for Inference
        • PyTorch Neuron (torch-neuronx) Weight Replacement API for Inference
        • PyTorch NeuronX NeuronCore Placement APIs [Beta]
        • PyTorch NeuronX Analyze API for Inference
        • PyTorch NeuronX DataParallel API
      • Developer Guide
        • NeuronCore Allocation and Model Placement for Inference (torch-neuronx)
        • Comparison of Traced Inference versus XLA Lazy Tensor Inference (torch-neuronx)
        • Data Parallel Inference on torch_neuronx
      • Misc
        • PyTorch Neuron (torch-neuronx) release notes
    • Inference (Inf1)
      • Tutorials
        • Computer Vision Tutorials
        • Natural Language Processing (NLP) Tutorials
        • Utilizing Neuron Capabilities Tutorials
      • Additional Examples
        • AWS Neuron Samples GitHub Repository
      • API Reference Guide
        • PyTorch Neuron trace Python API
        • torch.neuron.DataParallel API
        • PyTorch Neuron (torch-neuron) Core Placement API [Beta]
      • Developer Guide
        • Running Inference on Variable Input Shapes with Bucketing
        • Data Parallel Inference on PyTorch Neuron
        • Developer Guide - PyTorch Neuron (torch-neuron) LSTM Support
        • PyTorch Neuron (torch-neuron) Core Placement
      • Misc
        • PyTorch Neuron (torch-neuron) Supported operators
        • Troubleshooting Guide for PyTorch Neuron (torch-neuron)
        • PyTorch Neuron (torch-neuron) release notes
    • Training
      • Tutorials
        • Hugging Face BERT Pretraining Tutorial (Data-Parallel)
        • Multi-Layer Perceptron Training Tutorial
        • PyTorch Neuron for Trainium Hugging Face BERT MRPC task finetuning using Hugging Face Trainer API
        • Fine-tune T5 model on Trn1
        • ZeRO-1 Tutorial
        • Analyze for Training Tutorial
        • Neuron Custom C++ Operators in MLP Training
        • Neuron Custom C++ Operators Performance Optimization
      • Additional Examples
        • AWS Neuron Reference for Nemo Megatron GitHub Repository
        • AWS Neuron Samples for EKS
        • AWS Neuron Samples for AWS ParallelCluster
        • AWS Neuron Samples GitHub Repository
      • API Reference Guide
        • PyTorch NeuronX neuron_parallel_compile CLI
        • PyTorch NeuronX Environment Variables
        • Neuron Persistent Cache
        • PyTorch NeuronX Profiling API
      • Developer Guide
        • Developer Guide for Training with PyTorch NeuronX
        • How to debug models in PyTorch NeuronX
        • Developer Guide for Profiling with PyTorch NeuronX
      • Misc
        • PyTorch Neuron (torch-neuronx) - Supported Operators
        • How to prepare trn1.32xlarge for multi-node execution
        • PyTorch Neuron (torch-neuronx) for Training Troubleshooting Guide
        • PyTorch Neuron (torch-neuronx) release notes
  • JAX Neuron
    • JAX Neuron plugin Setup
    • JAX NeuronX Known Issues
    • API Reference Guide for JAX Neuronx
      • JAX NeuronX Environment Variables
    • JAX NeuronX (jax-neuronx) release notes
  • TensorFlow Neuron
    • Tensorflow Neuron Setup
    • Inference (Inf2 & Trn1)
      • Tutorials
        • HuggingFace Roberta-Base
        • Using NEURON_RT_VISIBLE_CORES with TensorFlow Serving
      • API Reference Guide
        • TensorFlow 2.x (tensorflow-neuronx) Tracing API
        • TensorFlow 2.x (tensorflow-neuronx) Auto Multicore Replication (Beta)
        • TensorFlow 2.x (tensorflow-neuronx) analyze_model API
      • Misc
        • TensorFlow 2.x (tensorflow-neuronx) Release Notes
    • Inference (Inf1)
      • Tutorials
        • Natural Language Processing (NLP) Tutorials
        • Utilizing Neuron Capabilities Tutorials
      • Additional Examples
        • AWS Neuron Samples GitHub Repository
      • API Reference Guide
        • TensorFlow 2.x (tensorflow-neuron) Tracing API
        • TensorFlow 2.x (tensorflow-neuron) analyze_model API
        • TensorFlow 2.x (tensorflow-neuron) Auto Multicore Replication (Beta)
      • Misc
        • TensorFlow 2.x (tensorflow-neuron) Release Notes
        • TensorFlow 2.x (tensorflow-neuron) Accelerated (torch-neuron) Python APIs and Graph Ops

NeuronX Distributed (NxD)

  • NxD Training
    • Overview
    • Setup
    • App Notes
      • Introducing NxD Training
      • Tensor Parallelism Overview
      • Pipeline Parallelism Overview
      • Activation Memory Reduction
    • API Reference Guide
      • YAML Configuration Settings
    • Developer Guides
      • Integrating a new model
      • Integrating a new dataset/dataloader
      • Registering an optimizer and LR scheduler
      • Migrating from Neuron-NeMo-Megatron to Neuronx Distributed Training
      • NxD Training Compatibility with NeMo
    • Tutorials
      • Megatron GPT Pretraining
      • HuggingFace Llama3.1/Llama3-8B Pretraining
      • HuggingFace Llama3.1/LLama3-8B Supervised Fine-tuning
      • HuggingFace Llama3.1/Llama3-8B Efficient Supervised Fine-tuning with LoRA (Beta)
      • HuggingFace Llama3.1/Llama3-8B Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) and Odds Ratio Preference Optimization (ORPO) based Fine-tuning (Beta)
      • HuggingFace Llama3.1/Llama3-70B Pretraining
      • Checkpoint Conversion
    • Misc
      • NxD Training Release Notes (neuronx-distributed-training)
      • Known Issues and Workarounds
  • NxD Inference
    • Overview
      • NxD Inference Overview
    • Setup
    • API Reference Guide
      • NxD Inference API Reference
    • Developer Guides
      • NxD Inference Features Configuration Guide
      • NxD Inference - Production Ready Models
      • Onboarding models to run on NxD Inference
      • vLLM User Guide for NxD Inference
      • Testing modeling code with NxD Inference
      • Migrating from NxD Core inference examples to NxD Inference
      • Migrating from Transformers NeuronX to NeuronX Distributed(NxD) Inference
      • LLM Inference Benchmarking guide
      • Accuracy Evaluation of Models on Neuron Using Open Source Datasets
      • Custom Quantization
      • NxD Inference Weights Sharding Guide
    • Tutorials
      • Tutorial: Deploying Llama3.1 405B (Trn2)
      • Tutorial: Deploying Llama3.2 Multimodal Models
      • Tutorial: Using Speculative Decoding to improve Llama-3.3-70B inference performance on Trn2 instances
      • Tutorial: Scaling LLM Inference with Data Parallelism on Trn2
      • Tutorial: Multi-LoRA serving for Llama-3.1-8B on Trn2 instances
      • Tutorial: Using Speculative Decoding and Quantization to improve Llama-3.1-405B inference performance on Trn2 instances
      • Tutorial: Evaluating Accuracy of Llama-3.1-70B on Neuron using open source datasets
    • App Notes
      • Introducing NeuronX Distributed (NxD) Inference
      • Parallelism Techniques for LLM Inference
    • Misc
      • NxD Inference Release Notes (neuronx-distributed-inference)
      • Troubleshooting Guide for NxD Inference
  • NxD Core
    • Setup
    • App Notes
      • Tensor Parallelism Overview
      • Pipeline Parallelism Overview
      • Activation Memory Reduction
      • Context Parallelism Overview
    • API Reference Guide
      • Distributed Strategies APIs
      • Training APIs
      • Inference APIs
    • Developer Guide
      • Training Developer Guides
        • Developer guide for Tensor Parallelism
        • Developer guide for Pipeline Parallelism
        • Developer guide for Activation Memory reduction
        • Developer guide for save/load checkpoint
        • Developer guide for Neuron-PT-Lightning
        • Developer guide for model and optimizer wrapper
        • Developer guide for LoRA finetuning
      • Inference Developer Guide
        • Developer guide for Neuronx-Distributed Inference
    • Tutorials
      • Training Tutorials
        • Training using Tensor Parallelism
        • Training GPT-NeoX 6.9B using TP and ZeRO-1
        • Training GPT-NeoX 20B using TP and ZeRO-1
        • Training Llama 3.1 8B/Llama 3 8B/Llama 2 7B using TP and ZeRO-1
        • Training Llama 3.1 70B/Llama 3 70B/Llama 2 13B/70B using TP and PP
        • Training Llama-2-7B/13B/70B using TP and PP with PyTorch-Lightning
      • Inference Tutorials
        • T5 inference with Tensor Parallelism
    • Misc
      • NxD Core Release Notes (neuronx-distributed)

Additional ML Libraries

  • Third Party Libraries
  • Transformers Neuron
    • Setup
    • Developer Guide
      • Transformers NeuronX (transformers-neuronx) Developer Guide
      • Transformers NeuronX (transformers-neuronx) Developer Guide for Continuous Batching
    • Tutorials
      • Hugging Face meta-llama/Llama-2-13b autoregressive sampling on Inf2 & Trn1
      • Hugging Face facebook/opt-13b autoregressive sampling on Inf2 & Trn1
      • Hugging Face facebook/opt-30b autoregressive sampling on Inf2 & Trn1
      • Hugging Face facebook/opt-66b autoregressive sampling on Inf2
    • Misc
      • Transformers Neuron (transformers-neuronx) release notes
  • AWS Neuron reference for NeMo Megatron

Developer Flows

  • Neuron DLAMI
  • Neuron Containers
    • Getting started with Neuron DLC using Docker
    • Neuron Deep Learning Containers
    • Customize Neuron DLC
    • Neuron Plugins for Containerized Environments
    • Neuron Containers FAQ
  • AWS Workload Orchestration
    • Amazon EKS
      • Using Neuron with Amazon EKS
      • Deploy Neuron Container on Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) for Inference
      • Deploy a simple mlp training script as a Kubernetes job
    • Amazon ECS
      • Neuron Problem Detector And Recovery
      • Deploy Neuron Container on Elastic Container Service (ECS) for Inference
      • Deploy Neuron Container on Elastic Container Service (ECS) for Training
    • AWS ParallelCluster
      • Parallel Cluster Flows- Training
        • Train your model on ParallelCluster
    • AWS Batch
      • Train your model on AWS Batch
  • Amazon SageMaker
  • Third-party Solutions
  • Setup Guide
    • Launching Inf/Trn instances on Amazon EC2
      • Inference
        • Compile with Framework API and Deploy on EC2 Inf1
        • Compile with Framework API and Deploy on EC2 Inf2
      • Training
        • Train your model on EC2
    • PyTorch NeuronX (torch-neuronx)
    • PyTorch Neuron (torch-neuron)
    • JAX NeuronX
      • JAX Neuron plugin Setup
      • JAX NeuronX Known Issues
      • API Reference Guide for JAX Neuronx
        • JAX NeuronX Environment Variables
      • JAX NeuronX (jax-neuronx) release notes
    • Tensorflow NeuronX (tensorflow-neuronx)
    • Tensorflow Neuron (tensorflow-neuron)
    • MxNet Neuron (mxnet-neuron)

Runtime & Tools

  • Neuron Runtime
    • API Reference Guide
      • Runtime API
    • Configuration Guide
      • Runtime Configuration
    • Misc
      • Troubleshooting on Inf1 and Trn1
      • FAQ
      • Neuron Runtime Release Notes
      • Neuron Driver Release Notes
      • Neuron Collectives Release Notes
  • Monitoring Tools
    • Neuron-Monitor User Guide
    • Neuron-Top User Guide
    • Neuron-LS User Guide
    • Neuron-Sysfs User Guide
    • NCCOM-TEST User Guide
    • What's New
  • Profiling Tools
    • Neuron Profiler User Guide
    • Neuron Profiler 2.0 (Beta) User Guide
    • What's New
  • Third-party Solutions
  • Other Tools
    • Check Model
    • GatherInfo
    • NeuronPerf
    • Neuron Calculator
    • TensorBoard Plugin for Neuron (Trn1)
    • TensorBoard Plugin for Neuron (Inf1)
    • Track Training Progress in TensorBoard using PyTorch Neuron
    • TensorBoard What's New

Compiler

  • Neuron Compiler
    • NeuronX Compiler for Trn1 & Inf2
      • API Reference Guide
        • Neuron Compiler CLI Reference Guide
      • Developer Guide
        • Mixed Precision and Performance-accuracy Tuning (neuronx-cc)
      • Misc
        • FAQ
        • What's New
    • Neuron Compiler for Inf1
      • API Reference Guide
        • Neuron compiler CLI Reference Guide (neuron-cc)
      • Developer Guide
        • Mixed precision and performance-accuracy tuning (neuron-cc)
      • Misc
        • FAQ
        • What's New
        • Neuron Supported operators
  • Neuron Kernel Interface (Beta)
    • API Reference Manual
      • nki
        • nki.jit
        • nki.benchmark
        • nki.profile
        • nki.baremetal
        • nki.simulate_kernel
        • nki.tensor
      • nki.language
        • nki.language.load
        • nki.language.store
        • nki.language.load_transpose2d
        • nki.language.atomic_rmw
        • nki.language.copy
        • nki.language.broadcast_to
        • nki.language.ndarray
        • nki.language.empty_like
        • nki.language.zeros
        • nki.language.zeros_like
        • nki.language.ones
        • nki.language.full
        • nki.language.rand
        • nki.language.random_seed
        • nki.language.shared_constant
        • nki.language.shared_identity_matrix
        • nki.language.add
        • nki.language.subtract
        • nki.language.multiply
        • nki.language.divide
        • nki.language.power
        • nki.language.maximum
        • nki.language.minimum
        • nki.language.max
        • nki.language.min
        • nki.language.mean
        • nki.language.var
        • nki.language.sum
        • nki.language.prod
        • nki.language.all
        • nki.language.abs
        • nki.language.negative
        • nki.language.sign
        • nki.language.trunc
        • nki.language.floor
        • nki.language.ceil
        • nki.language.mod
        • nki.language.fmod
        • nki.language.exp
        • nki.language.log
        • nki.language.cos
        • nki.language.sin
        • nki.language.tan
        • nki.language.tanh
        • nki.language.arctan
        • nki.language.sqrt
        • nki.language.rsqrt
        • nki.language.sigmoid
        • nki.language.relu
        • nki.language.gelu
        • nki.language.gelu_dx
        • nki.language.gelu_apprx_tanh
        • nki.language.silu
        • nki.language.silu_dx
        • nki.language.erf
        • nki.language.erf_dx
        • nki.language.softplus
        • nki.language.mish
        • nki.language.square
        • nki.language.softmax
        • nki.language.rms_norm
        • nki.language.dropout
        • nki.language.matmul
        • nki.language.transpose
        • nki.language.reciprocal
        • nki.language.bitwise_and
        • nki.language.bitwise_or
        • nki.language.bitwise_xor
        • nki.language.invert
        • nki.language.left_shift
        • nki.language.right_shift
        • nki.language.equal
        • nki.language.not_equal
        • nki.language.greater
        • nki.language.greater_equal
        • nki.language.less
        • nki.language.less_equal
        • nki.language.logical_and
        • nki.language.logical_or
        • nki.language.logical_xor
        • nki.language.logical_not
        • nki.language.ds
        • nki.language.arange
        • nki.language.mgrid
        • nki.language.expand_dims
        • nki.language.where
        • nki.language.all_reduce
        • nki.language.static_range
        • nki.language.affine_range
        • nki.language.sequential_range
        • nki.language.par_dim
        • nki.language.psum
        • nki.language.sbuf
        • nki.language.hbm
        • nki.language.private_hbm
        • nki.language.shared_hbm
        • nki.language.program_id
        • nki.language.num_programs
        • nki.language.program_ndim
        • nki.language.spmd_dim
        • nki.language.nc
        • nki.language.device_print
        • nki.language.loop_reduce
        • nki.language.tfloat32
        • nki.language.bfloat16
        • nki.language.float8_e4m3
        • nki.language.float8_e5m2
        • nki.language.tile_size
        • nki.language.fp32
      • nki.isa
        • nki.isa.nc_matmul
        • nki.isa.nc_transpose
        • nki.isa.activation
        • nki.isa.activation_reduce
        • nki.isa.tensor_reduce
        • nki.isa.tensor_partition_reduce
        • nki.isa.tensor_tensor
        • nki.isa.tensor_tensor_scan
        • nki.isa.scalar_tensor_tensor
        • nki.isa.tensor_scalar
        • nki.isa.tensor_scalar_reduce
        • nki.isa.tensor_copy
        • nki.isa.tensor_copy_dynamic_src
        • nki.isa.tensor_copy_dynamic_dst
        • nki.isa.tensor_copy_predicated
        • nki.isa.reciprocal
        • nki.isa.iota
        • nki.isa.dropout
        • nki.isa.affine_select
        • nki.isa.range_select
        • nki.isa.memset
        • nki.isa.bn_stats
        • nki.isa.bn_aggr
        • nki.isa.local_gather
        • nki.isa.dma_copy
        • nki.isa.max8
        • nki.isa.nc_find_index8
        • nki.isa.nc_match_replace8
        • nki.isa.nc_stream_shuffle
        • nki.isa.engine
        • nki.isa.reduce_cmd
        • nki.isa.dge_mode
        • nki.isa.nc_version
        • nki.isa.get_nc_version
      • nki.compiler
        • nki.compiler.sbuf.alloc
        • nki.compiler.sbuf.mod_alloc
        • nki.compiler.sbuf.auto_alloc
        • nki.compiler.psum.alloc
        • nki.compiler.psum.mod_alloc
        • nki.compiler.psum.auto_alloc
        • nki.compiler.skip_middle_end_transformations
        • nki.compiler.enable_stack_allocator
        • nki.compiler.force_auto_alloc
      • NKI API Common Fields
      • NKI API Errors
    • Developer Guide
      • Getting Started with NKI
      • NKI Programming Model
      • NKI Kernel as a Framework Custom Operator
      • NeuronDevice Architecture Guide for NKI
        • Trainium/Inferentia2 Architecture Guide for NKI
        • Trainium2 Architecture Guide for NKI
      • Profiling NKI kernels with Neuron Profile
      • NKI Performance Guide
      • NKI Direct Allocation Developer Guide
      • NKI Block Dimension Migration Guide
    • Tutorials
      • Single program, multiple data tensor addition
      • Single program, multiple data tensor addition using multiple Neuron Cores
      • Transpose2D
      • AveragePool2D
      • Matrix multiplication
      • RMSNorm
      • LayerNorm
      • Fused Self Attention
      • Fused Mamba
    • Kernels
    • Misc
      • NKI FAQ
      • What's New
      • NKI Known Issues
  • Neuron C++ Custom Operators
    • API Reference Guide
      • Custom Operators API Reference Guide [Beta]
    • Developer Guide
      • Neuron Custom C++ Operators Developer Guide [Beta]
    • Tutorials
      • Neuron Custom C++ Operators in MLP Training
      • Neuron Custom C++ Operators Performance Optimization
    • Misc (Neuron Custom C++ Operators)
      • Neuron Custom C++ Tools Release Notes
      • Neuron Custom C++ Library Release Notes

Learning Neuron

  • Architecture
    • Trn/Inf Instances
    • Amazon EC2 AI Chips
    • NeuronCores
  • Features
    • Data types
    • Rounding modes
    • Neuron batching
    • NeuronCore pipeline
    • Neuron persistent cache
    • Collective communication
    • Logical NeuronCore configuration
    • Custom C++ operators
  • Application notes
    • Introducing the first release of Neuron 2.x enabling EC2 Trn1 General Availability (GA)
    • Introducing Neuron Runtime 2.x (libnrt.so)
    • Performance Tuning
    • Parallel Execution using NEURON_RT_NUM_CORES
    • Running R-CNNs on Inf1
    • Graph Partitioner on torch_neuronx
    • Generative LLM inference with Neuron
    • Introducing PyTorch 2.6 Support
    • Introducing PyTorch 2.5 Support
  • FAQ
  • Troubleshooting
  • Neuron Glossary

Legacy Software

  • Apache MXNet
    • MXNet Neuron Setup
    • Inference (Inf1)
      • Tutorials
        • Computer Vision Tutorials
        • Natural Language Processing (NLP) Tutorials
        • Utilizing Neuron Capabilities Tutorials
      • API Reference Guide
        • Neuron Apache MXNet Compilation Python API
      • Developer Guide
        • Flexible Execution Group (FlexEG) in Neuron-MXNet
      • Misc
        • Troubleshooting Guide for Neuron Apache MXNet
        • What's New
        • Neuron Apache MXNet Supported operators

About Neuron

  • Release Details
  • Roadmap
    • Neuron Public Roadmap
  • Support
    • SDK Maintenance Policy
    • Security Disclosures
    • Contact Us
  • Repository
  • Suggest edit
  • Open issue
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Announcing end of support for Neuron support for NeMo Megatron starting next release

This document is relevant for: Inf1, Inf2, Trn1, Trn2

Announcing end of support for Neuron support for NeMo Megatron starting next release#

Starting with Neuron Release 2.23, Neuron will end support for NeMo Megatron.

We recommend all users of NeMo Megatron to migrate their training workloads to NxD Training. Please refer to Neuron NeMo Megatron to NeuronX Distributed Training Migration Guide for guidance.

This document is relevant for: Inf1, Inf2, Trn1, Trn2

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