Why the collective communication library is named as c10d?

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Hi there, I’m just curious why the collective communication library is called c10d. Is there any direct meaning related to this?

Thanks very much ~

2

I guess the idea was to use it as a common backend for PyTorch and Caffe2 (before it died) in the c10(d) namespace instead of ATen.

3

right and “d” here just means distributed. haha.