EPFLiGHT / cumulator

A tool to quantify and report the carbon footprint of machine learning computations and communication
MIT License
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Improve clarity of README about "cost of communications" #14

Closed Grim-bot closed 2 years ago

Grim-bot commented 2 years ago

The README currently says this:

Each time your models sends a data file to another node of the network, record the size of the file which is communicated (in kilo bytes) using cumulator.data_transferred(file_size).

I read that as saying that it measures the cost of sending data from one computing node of a HPC cluster to another computing node of the same cluster, which is not at all the same as downloading a file from the internet. This needs to be made much clearer.