Installing Apex - any successful instructions?

[christegho]

In order to run the Pangu model, I need to install Apex.

The documentation on https://github.com/NVIDIA/apex?tab=readme-ov-file#linux is not leading to a successful install.

I get this error:

TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'NoneType' and 'str'

Wondering how you managed to get the library?

[christegho]

Same issue as reported here:
NVIDIA/apex#990

[efesurekli]

Apparently Apex is only used for the fused layer norm layer in FCN networks. Patched it with the megatron_core so we can safely install without Apex.

[efesurekli]

Will test the installation and report back

[efesurekli]

Yep all good, closing this.