Cross-posting this issue from ipex, in case the torch-ccl team is not aware of it.

Key issues:

• Compute and collective communications do not overlap on intel GPU devices
• Collectives block the host thread, rather than launching a kernel and immediately returning (as on NVIDIA devices)

The pytorch profiler traces highlight the issues (copied from the other thread):

A100 Trace

Non-blocking kernel launch and comms/compute overlap.

Intel Max 1550 Trace

Blocking kernel launch and no comms/compute overlap.

See the other thread for more details.