def METHOD_NAME(data):
    """
    Run all_gather on arbitrary picklable data (not necessarily tensors)
    Args:
        data: any picklable object
    Returns:
        list[data]: list of data gathered from each rank
    """
    world_size = get_world_size()
    if world_size == 1:
        return [data]
    # serialized to a Tensor
    buffer = pickle.dumps(data)
    storage = torch.ByteStorage.from_buffer(buffer)
    tensor = torch.ByteTensor(storage).to('cuda')
    # obtain Tensor size of each rank
    local_size = torch.tensor([tensor.numel()], device='cuda')
    size_list = [torch.tensor([0], device='cuda') for _ in range(world_size)]
    dist.METHOD_NAME(size_list, local_size)
    size_list = [int(size.item()) for size in size_list]
    max_size = max(size_list)
    # receiving Tensor from all ranks
    # we pad the tensor because torch all_gather does not support
    # gathering tensors of different shapes
    tensor_list = []
    for _ in size_list:
        tensor_list.append(
            torch.empty((max_size, ), dtype=torch.uint8, device='cuda'))
    if local_size != max_size:
        padding = torch.empty(
            size=(max_size - local_size, ), dtype=torch.uint8, device='cuda')
        tensor = torch.cat((tensor, padding), dim=0)
    dist.METHOD_NAME(tensor_list, tensor)
    data_list = []
    for size, tensor in zip(size_list, tensor_list):
        buffer = tensor.cpu().numpy().tobytes()[:size]
        data_list.append(pickle.loads(buffer))
    return data_list