Beijing Zhiyuan Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (BAAI) has open sourced FlagCX, a heterogeneous unified communications library, aiming to solve the challenges of communication libraries in the era of diverse computing power and improve cross-chip efficient interconnection capabilities. This not only fills an important gap in the multi-computing power open source software stack, but also actively responds to the national "Qinglang" special action, reflecting the fairness, justice, openness and transparency of the algorithm. The architectural design of FlagCX follows the principles of "zero overhead" and "zero cost", provides a unified communication operator interface layer, and supports docking with different deep learning frameworks to facilitate users to use it in different frameworks. Its performance test results show that FlagCX has reached leading levels in both cross-machine communication performance and cross-chip heterogeneous communication performance.
In the era of multiple computing power, the versatility and adaptability of communication libraries are crucial. The emergence of FlagCX provides a solid foundation for building a more efficient and flexible AI application ecosystem. By cooperating with universities, research institutions, server manufacturers, chip manufacturers, cloud manufacturers and operators, Zhiyuan Research Institute is actively promoting the promotion and application of FlagCX and promoting collaborative innovation among industry, academia and research. The open source of FlagCX will accelerate technological progress and application implementation in the field of artificial intelligence, and contribute to building a more intelligent future. Open source address: https://github.com/FlagOpen/FlagCX
The open source of FlagCX marks an important step for China in the field of basic artificial intelligence software. Its performance advantages and openness will attract more developers to participate and jointly build a more prosperous AI ecosystem. It is expected that FlagCX can play a role in more scenarios in the future and promote the rapid development of artificial intelligence technology.