Paddle/proto/ParameterServerConfig.proto

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syntax = "proto2";

package paddle;

/**
 * Configuration structure for ParameterClient2.
 */
message ParameterClientConfig { required int32 trainer_id = 1; }

/**
 * Configuration structure for ParameterServer2.
 */
message ParameterServerConfig {
  // Number of ports for sending dense parameter,
  // following ports on parameter server will be visited
  // for sending dense parameter: [port, port+ports_num-1]
  required int32 ports_num = 1 [ default = 1 ];
  // Number of ports for sending sparse parameter,
  // following ports on parameter server will be visited
  // for sending sparse parameter:
  // [port+ports_num, port+ports_num+ports_num_for_sparse-1]
  required int32 ports_num_for_sparse = 2 [ default = 0 ];
  // network device name for pservers
  required string nics = 3 [ default = "xgbe0,xgbe1" ];
  required string rdma_tcp = 4 [ default = "tcp" ];
  // Listening port for pserver
  required int32 port = 5 [ default = 20134 ];
  // number of gradient servers
  required int32 num_gradient_servers = 6 [ default = 1 ];
  // number of threads for sync op exec
  required int32 pserver_num_threads = 7 [ default = 1 ];
  // control config_.async_lagged_grad_discard_ratio() min value
  required double async_lagged_ratio_min = 8 [ default = 1.0 ];
  // if async_lagged_grad_discard_ratio is not set in trainer_config.conf
  // use it as defalut value
  required double async_lagged_ratio_default = 9 [ default = 1.5 ];
}