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Install from Source
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Clone the Repo
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The nnScaler repository is hosted on GitHub.

::

    git clone https://github.com/microsoft/nnscaler

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Editable Install
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nnScaler uses ``pybind11`` and ``cppimport`` to speedup partitioning.
The c++ modules must be manually compiled for an editable install.

::

    cd nnscaler
    pip install -e .
    python -c "import cppimport.import_hook ; import nnscaler.autodist.dp_solver"

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Build a Wheel
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::

    cd nnscaler
    pip install build
    python -m build
    pip install dist/nnscaler-*.whl