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+"""
+Generic Writer class
+"""
+
+
+from abc import abstractmethod
+from typing import Callable
+import torch
+
+from torch.utils.tensorboard import SummaryWriter
+from torchtyping import TensorType
+
+
+def require_main_thread(func: Callable) -> Callable:
+    """Declarator: check if you are on main thread"""
+
+    def wrapper(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        if self.is_main_thread:
+            func(self, *args, **kwargs)
+
+    return wrapper
+
+
+class Writer:
+    """Writer class"""
+
+    def __init__(self, local_rank: int, world_size: int, save_dir: str):
+        self.save_dir = save_dir
+        self.writer = None
+        self.is_main_thread = local_rank % world_size == 0
+
+    @abstractmethod
+    def write_image(self, name: str, x: TensorType["H", "W", 3]) -> None:
+        """_summary_
+
+        Args:
+            name (str): data identifier
+            x (TensorType["H", "W", 3]): rendered image to write
+        """
+        raise NotImplementedError
+
+    @abstractmethod
+    def write_text(self, name: str, x: str) -> None:
+        """Required method to write a string to summary
+
+        Args:
+            name (str): data identifier
+            x (str): string to write
+        """
+        raise NotImplementedError
+
+    @abstractmethod
+    def write_scalar(self, name: str, x: float, y: float) -> None:
+        """Required method to write a single scalar value to the logger
+
+        Args:
+            name (str): data identifier
+            x (float): x value to write
+            y (float): y value to write
+        """
+        raise NotImplementedError
+
+    def write_scalar_dict(self, scalar_dict: dict) -> None:
+        """Function that writes out all scalars from a given dictionary to the logger
+
+        Args:
+            scalar_dict (dict): dictionary containing all scalar values
+        """
+        if self.is_main_thread:
+            for name, (x, y) in scalar_dict.items():
+                self.writer.write_scalar(name, x, y)
+
+
+class TensorboardWriter(Writer):
+    """Tensorboard Writer Class"""
+
+    def __init__(self, local_rank: int, world_size: int, save_dir: str):
+        super().__init__(local_rank, world_size, save_dir)
+        if self.is_main_thread:
+            self.writer = SummaryWriter(log_dir=self.save_dir)
+
+    @require_main_thread
+    def write_image(self, name: str, x: TensorType["H", "W", 3]) -> None:
+        """_summary_
+
+        Args:
+            name (str): data identifier
+            x (TensorType["H", "W", 3]): rendered image to write
+        """
+        to8b = lambda x: (255 * torch.clip(x, 0, 1)).to(torch.uint8)
+        x = to8b(x)
+        self.writer.add_images(name, x)
+
+    @require_main_thread
+    def write_text(self, name: str, x: str) -> None:
+        """Tensorboard method to write a string to summary
+
+        Args:
+            name (str): data identifier
+            x (str): string to write
+        """
+        self.writer.add_text(name, x)
+
+    @require_main_thread
+    def write_scalar(self, name: str, x: float, y: float) -> None:
+        """Tensorboard method to write a single scalar value to the logger
+
+        Args:
+            name (str): data identifier
+            x (float): x value to write
+            y (float): y value to write
+        """
+        self.writer.add_scalar(name, x, y)