diff --git a/distributed/ddp/README.md b/distributed/ddp/README.md
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+`DistributedDataParallel` Example
+
+This example demonstrates basic use cases of `DistributedDataParallel`, and
+also covers some more advanced scenarios including checkpointing models and
+combining DDP with model parallelism.
+
+```
+pip install -r requirements.txt
+python main.py
+```
diff --git a/distributed/ddp/main.py b/distributed/ddp/main.py
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+import os
+import tempfile
+import torch
+import torch.distributed as dist
+import torch.multiprocessing as mp
+import torch.nn as nn
+import torch.optim as optim
+
+from torch.nn.parallel import DistributedDataParallel as DDP
+
+
+def setup(rank, world_size):
+    os.environ['MASTER_ADDR'] = 'localhost'
+    os.environ['MASTER_PORT'] = '12355'
+
+    # initialize the process group
+    dist.init_process_group("gloo", rank=rank, world_size=world_size)
+
+
+def cleanup():
+    dist.destroy_process_group()
+
+
+class ToyModel(nn.Module):
+    def __init__(self):
+        super(ToyModel, self).__init__()
+        self.net1 = nn.Linear(10, 10)
+        self.relu = nn.ReLU()
+        self.net2 = nn.Linear(10, 5)
+
+    def forward(self, x):
+        return self.net2(self.relu(self.net1(x)))
+
+
+def demo_basic(rank, world_size):
+    print(f"Running basic DDP example on rank {rank}.")
+    setup(rank, world_size)
+
+    # create model and move it to GPU with id rank
+    model = ToyModel().to(rank)
+    ddp_model = DDP(model, device_ids=[rank])
+
+    loss_fn = nn.MSELoss()
+    optimizer = optim.SGD(ddp_model.parameters(), lr=0.001)
+
+    optimizer.zero_grad()
+    outputs = ddp_model(torch.randn(20, 10))
+    labels = torch.randn(20, 5).to(rank)
+    loss_fn(outputs, labels).backward()
+    optimizer.step()
+
+    cleanup()
+
+
+def run_demo(demo_fn, world_size):
+    mp.spawn(demo_fn,
+             args=(world_size,),
+             nprocs=world_size,
+             join=True)
+
+
+def demo_checkpoint(rank, world_size):
+    print(f"Running DDP checkpoint example on rank {rank}.")
+    setup(rank, world_size)
+
+    model = ToyModel().to(rank)
+    ddp_model = DDP(model, device_ids=[rank])
+
+    loss_fn = nn.MSELoss()
+    optimizer = optim.SGD(ddp_model.parameters(), lr=0.001)
+
+    CHECKPOINT_PATH = tempfile.gettempdir() + "/model.checkpoint"
+    if rank == 0:
+        # All processes should see same parameters as they all start from same
+        # random parameters and gradients are synchronized in backward passes.
+        # Therefore, saving it in one process is sufficient.
+        torch.save(ddp_model.state_dict(), CHECKPOINT_PATH)
+
+    # Use a barrier() to make sure that process 1 loads the model after process
+    # 0 saves it.
+    dist.barrier()
+    # configure map_location properly
+    map_location = {'cuda:%d' % 0: 'cuda:%d' % rank}
+    ddp_model.load_state_dict(
+        torch.load(CHECKPOINT_PATH, map_location=map_location))
+
+    optimizer.zero_grad()
+    outputs = ddp_model(torch.randn(20, 10))
+    labels = torch.randn(20, 5).to(rank)
+    loss_fn = nn.MSELoss()
+    loss_fn(outputs, labels).backward()
+    optimizer.step()
+
+    # Use a barrier() to make sure that all processes have finished reading the
+    # checkpoint
+    dist.barrier()
+
+    if rank == 0:
+        os.remove(CHECKPOINT_PATH)
+
+    cleanup()
+
+
+class ToyMpModel(nn.Module):
+    def __init__(self, dev0, dev1):
+        super(ToyMpModel, self).__init__()
+        self.dev0 = dev0
+        self.dev1 = dev1
+        self.net1 = torch.nn.Linear(10, 10).to(dev0)
+        self.relu = torch.nn.ReLU()
+        self.net2 = torch.nn.Linear(10, 5).to(dev1)
+
+    def forward(self, x):
+        x = x.to(self.dev0)
+        x = self.relu(self.net1(x))
+        x = x.to(self.dev1)
+        return self.net2(x)
+
+
+def demo_model_parallel(rank, world_size):
+    print(f"Running DDP with model parallel example on rank {rank}.")
+    setup(rank, world_size)
+
+    # setup mp_model and devices for this process
+    dev0 = rank * 2
+    dev1 = rank * 2 + 1
+    mp_model = ToyMpModel(dev0, dev1)
+    ddp_mp_model = DDP(mp_model)
+
+    loss_fn = nn.MSELoss()
+    optimizer = optim.SGD(ddp_mp_model.parameters(), lr=0.001)
+
+    optimizer.zero_grad()
+    # outputs will be on dev1
+    outputs = ddp_mp_model(torch.randn(20, 10))
+    labels = torch.randn(20, 5).to(dev1)
+    loss_fn(outputs, labels).backward()
+    optimizer.step()
+
+    cleanup()
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    n_gpus = torch.cuda.device_count()
+    if n_gpus < 8:
+        print(f"Requires at least 8 GPUs to run, but got {n_gpus}.")
+    else:
+        run_demo(demo_basic, 8)
+        run_demo(demo_checkpoint, 8)
+        run_demo(demo_model_parallel, 4)
diff --git a/distributed/ddp/requirements.txt b/distributed/ddp/requirements.txt
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+torch