# \`accelerate config\` alternative for multi-node training
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**Author:**  [@cyk1337](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Fcyk1337)%5C
**Post date:** [September 5, 2022, 2:06pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Faccelerate-config-alternative-for-multi-node-training%2F22567%2F1 "2022-09-05T14:06:33Z")
For multi-node training, the `accelerate` library requires manually running `accelerate config` on each machine. It is inconvenient if the node number exceeds 10+ (manually setting the configuration for 10+ times). Is there a solution that we can automatically generate the config file on each machine?
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**Author:**  [@muellerzr](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Fmuellerzr)%5C
**Post date:** [September 5, 2022, 9:29pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Faccelerate-config-alternative-for-multi-node-training%2F22567%2F2 "2022-09-05T21:29:47Z")
> [@cyk1337](#):
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> Is there a solution that we can automatically generate the config file on each machine?
You can just use the same single yaml and tweak it for the node number, and copy/paste onto each machine.
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**Author:**  [@cyk1337](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Fcyk1337)%5C
**Post date:** [September 6, 2022, 2:04am UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Faccelerate-config-alternative-for-multi-node-training%2F22567%2F3 "2022-09-06T02:04:40Z")
Hi @muellerzr, I was wondering whether there is such a tool. If not, I would develop one. Thank you very much for your answers.