diff --git a/blogs/deepspeed-fastgen/chinese/README.md b/blogs/deepspeed-fastgen/chinese/README.md
index fb9cc7319ab6..1e92e4169450 100644
--- a/blogs/deepspeed-fastgen/chinese/README.md
+++ b/blogs/deepspeed-fastgen/chinese/README.md
@@ -226,6 +226,10 @@ DeepSpeed-FastGen 是 [DeepSpeed-MII](https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed-MII
 * [LLaMA](https://huggingface.co/models?other=llama) 和 [LLaMA-2](https://huggingface.co/models?other=llama-2)
 * [Mistral](https://huggingface.co/models?other=mistral)
 * [OPT](https://huggingface.co/models?other=opt)
+* [Falcon](https://huggingface.co/models?other=falcon)
+* [Mixtral](https://huggingface.co/models?other=mixtral)
+* [Phi-2](https://huggingface.co/models?other=phi-msft)
+* [Qwen](https://huggingface.co/models?other=qwen)
 
 所有当前模型都利用了后端的 [HuggingFace](https://github.com/huggingface) API 来提供模型权重和模型对应的分词器。
 
diff --git a/deepspeed/launcher/runner.py b/deepspeed/launcher/runner.py
index 0ca89dd0497a..12dd629b1b34 100755
--- a/deepspeed/launcher/runner.py
+++ b/deepspeed/launcher/runner.py
@@ -117,6 +117,12 @@ def parse_args(args=None):
                         help="(optional) IP address of node 0, will be "
                         "inferred via 'hostname -I' if not specified.")
 
+    parser.add_argument("--node_rank",
+                        default=-1,
+                        type=int,
+                        help="ID of each node in the range [0:N). "
+                        "Only required when --no_ssh is set.")
+
     parser.add_argument("--launcher",
                         default=PDSH_LAUNCHER,
                         type=str,
@@ -145,6 +151,10 @@ def parse_args(args=None):
                         help="Do not pass local_rank as an argument when calling "
                         "the user's training script.")
 
+    parser.add_argument("--no_ssh",
+                        action="store_true",
+                        help="Launch training independently on each node without ssh setup.")
+
     parser.add_argument("--no_ssh_check",
                         action="store_true",
                         help="Do not perform ssh check in multi-node launcher model")
@@ -427,7 +437,7 @@ def main(args=None):
     env = os.environ.copy()
 
     # validate that passwordless-ssh is workly properly with this hostfile
-    if multi_node_exec and not args.no_ssh_check:
+    if multi_node_exec and not args.no_ssh_check and not args.no_ssh:
         first_host = list(active_resources.keys())[0]
         try:
             ssh_check_cmd = "ssh -o PasswordAuthentication=no "
@@ -483,16 +493,22 @@ def main(args=None):
     if args.elastic_training:
         assert not args.no_local_rank, "--no_local_rank argument is not supported in Elastic training"
 
+    if args.no_ssh:
+        assert (0 <= args.node_rank <
+                len(active_resources)), "Launching training without ssh, but --node_rank is not set correctly."
+
     # encode world info as base64 to make it easier to pass via command line
     world_info_base64 = encode_world_info(active_resources)
 
-    multi_node_exec = args.force_multi or len(active_resources) > 1
+    multi_node_exec = (args.force_multi or len(active_resources) > 1) and not args.no_ssh
 
     if not multi_node_exec:
         deepspeed_launch = [
             sys.executable, "-u", "-m", "deepspeed.launcher.launch", f"--world_info={world_info_base64}",
             f"--master_addr={args.master_addr}", f"--master_port={args.master_port}"
         ]
+        if args.no_ssh:
+            deepspeed_launch.append(f"--node_rank={args.node_rank}")
         if args.no_python:
             deepspeed_launch.append("--no_python")
         if args.module: