Wandb agent creates new IDs instead of using the ID provided

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in wandb, why is it creating a new sweep id grj782il and not using the ID qmi88fp4 ?

CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=4 wandb agent organisation_name/sweep_project/qmi88fp4                                                                    
wandb: Starting wandb agent 🕵️                                                                 
2023-09-17 17:33:59,952 - wandb.wandb_agent - INFO - Running runs: []                         
2023-09-17 17:34:00,599 - wandb.wandb_agent - INFO - Agent received command: run              
2023-09-17 17:34:00,599 - wandb.wandb_agent - INFO - Agent starting run with config:          
        batch_size: 8                                                                         
        densenet_depth: 121                                                                   
        lr: 0.0001                                                                            
        n_epochs: 10                                                                          
2023-09-17 17:34:00,601 - wandb.wandb_agent - INFO - About to run command: /usr/bin/env python
 3d_training.py --batch_size=8 --densenet_depth=121 --lr=0.0001 --n_epochs=10                 
2023-09-17 17:34:05,612 - wandb.wandb_agent - INFO - Running runs: ['ofr52kq1']               
Create sweep with ID: grj782il                                                                
Sweep URL: https://wandb.ai/organisation_name/sweep_project/sweeps/grj782il
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Hi @liutiming !

Thank you for writing in!

Could you please talk a bit about your experiment setup? Are you interested in resuming your previous sweep? Are you changing your sweep config in between ending your old one and starting a new one?

Warmly,
Artsiom

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Hi there, I wanted to follow up on this request. Please let us know if we can be of further assistance or if your issue has been resolved.

Cheers!

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Hi @liutiming , since we have not heard back from you we are going to close this request. If you would like to re-open the conversation, please let us know!

Warmly,
Artsiom

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Thank you @artsiom! Sorry I did not get email notification on this.

The command is as CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=4 wandb agent organisation_name/sweep_project/qmi88fp4. What I am hoping to achieve with this command is to use another GPU to contribute to sweep qmi88fp4, but the output shows that instead of creating runs under qmi88fp4, the command created a new sweep with ID grj782il

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Gotcha, so you are interested in being able to use multiple GPUs to on one single run instead of multiple different runs?

Are you launching a sweep, and then trying to connect a gpu to it, or are you trying to launch a sweep with 2 gpus from the beginning?

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Thanks @artsiom If this is the command, then I think it is connecting a GPU to a newly lauched sweep run, but it should uses the existing sweep config and ID?