[Usage]: Is pipeline parallelism supported on machines that are not in the same local network?

[oldcpple]

How would you like to use vllm

Hi there, since the communications between nodes are done by NCCL(which typically relies on RDMA I guess), I wonder if I can setup an inference pipeline with machines from different networks, for example, one on Google Cloud and another on AWS Cloud, through vLLM's pipeline parallelism？
Thanks a lot if anyone can answer this.

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[noooop]

Do you really want to do this?

A typical vllm step takes about 20ms, and copying an intermediate result (a large tenser) over the network is very slow.

And now vllm is scheduled synchronously, so the delay in network transmission of intermediate results will greatly reduce GPU utilization, increase latency, and reduce throughput.

You can pay attention to progress of Disaggregated prefilling

It seems to be asynchronous, that Awesome