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DeepSpeed releases process-group caches before CPU/Gloo worker shutdown

DeepSpeed now releases process-group caches post-teardown to prevent stale references. This fixes a SIGABRT issue observed in CPU/Gloo AutoEP tests.

18 Oct 20261 verified claims1 sources1 observations
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The official source reports this update: nightly-last-green: Release process-group caches before CPU/Gloo worker shutdown (#8846). Problem After successful distributed teardown, DeepSpeed could retain references to destroyed process groups in its group caches. Reinitialization could then reuse a stale TP group. In the CPU/Gloo AutoEP test path, completed engines could also remain in hook cycles until interpreter finalization; native Linux reproduced a SIGABRT while a Gloo worker released Python tensor state during finalization.

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