diff --git a/deepspeed/runtime/engine.py b/deepspeed/runtime/engine.py
index 5791b3fab85d..28e49d655930 100755
--- a/deepspeed/runtime/engine.py
+++ b/deepspeed/runtime/engine.py
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
     ZERO_OPTIMIZATION_OPTIMIZER_STATES, ZERO_OPTIMIZATION_GRADIENTS, ZERO_OPTIMIZATION_WEIGHTS
 from deepspeed.runtime.csr_tensor import CSRTensor
 import deepspeed.runtime.lr_schedules as lr_schedules
+from deepspeed.runtime.utils import get_grad_norm
 from deepspeed.utils import logger, log_dist, init_distributed
 from deepspeed.utils.timer import ThroughputTimer, SynchronizedWallClockTimer
 from deepspeed.utils.debug import debug_extract_module_and_param_names
@@ -123,6 +124,7 @@ def __init__(self,
         self.gas_boundary_ctr = 0
         self.dist_backend = "nccl"
         self._step_applied = False
+        self._global_grad_norm = None
 
         # for debug purposes - can then debug print: debug_get_module_name(module)
         debug_extract_module_and_param_names(model)
@@ -256,6 +258,30 @@ def set_train_batch_size(self, train_batch_size):
         self._config.train_batch_size = train_batch_size
         self._config.gradient_accumulation_steps = new_gas
 
+    def _compute_global_grad_norm(self):
+        params = [p for p in self.module.parameters() if p.grad is not None]
+        return get_grad_norm(params, mpu=self.mpu)
+
+    def get_global_grad_norm(self, force_compute=False) -> float:
+        """Return the 2-norm of all gradients. If there is model parallelism,
+        the norm will be global.
+
+        The computed norm will be cached and reused until the next step()
+        pass unless ``force_compute=True``.
+        .. note::
+            In the presence of model parallelism, this is a collective call
+            and acts as a barrier among ``mpu.get_model_parallel_group()``.
+        Args:
+            force_compute (bool, optional): Force a recomputation of the norm. Defaults to False.
+        Returns:
+            float: norm
+        """
+        # Check for an outdated parameter norm.
+        if force_compute or self._global_grad_norm is None:
+            self._global_grad_norm = self._compute_global_grad_norm()
+
+        return self._global_grad_norm
+
     def checkpoint_tag_validation_enabled(self):
         return self._config.checkpoint_tag_validation_enabled
 
@@ -1315,6 +1341,9 @@ def _take_model_step(self, lr_kwargs, block_eigenvalue={}):
 
         self.optimizer.step()
 
+        if hasattr(self.optimizer, '_global_grad_norm'):
+            self._global_grad_norm = self.optimizer._global_grad_norm
+
         # Quantize the updated parameter if there no overflow
         if self.quantizer:
             self.quantizer.quantize(
diff --git a/deepspeed/runtime/fp16/fused_optimizer.py b/deepspeed/runtime/fp16/fused_optimizer.py
index fba0d6b1fd59..1d223c15a9b2 100755
--- a/deepspeed/runtime/fp16/fused_optimizer.py
+++ b/deepspeed/runtime/fp16/fused_optimizer.py
@@ -45,6 +45,8 @@ def __init__(self,
         self.fp16_groups_flat = []
         self.fp32_groups_flat = []
 
+        self._global_grad_norm = 0.
+
         # loop to deal with groups
         for i, param_group in enumerate(self.optimizer.param_groups):
             # push this group to list before modify
@@ -251,6 +253,8 @@ def step(self, closure=None):
         all_groups_norm = get_grad_norm(self.fp32_groups_flat, mpu=self.mpu)
         self.stop_timers([COMPUTE_NORM])
 
+        self._global_grad_norm = all_groups_norm
+
         self.start_timers([UNSCALE_AND_CLIP])
         self.unscale_and_clip_grads(grads_groups_flat, [all_groups_norm])
         self.stop_timers([UNSCALE_AND_CLIP])
diff --git a/deepspeed/runtime/fp16/unfused_optimizer.py b/deepspeed/runtime/fp16/unfused_optimizer.py
index c30df0bef1d0..27dbc45dca3e 100755
--- a/deepspeed/runtime/fp16/unfused_optimizer.py
+++ b/deepspeed/runtime/fp16/unfused_optimizer.py
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ def __init__(self,
                  fused_lamb_legacy=False):
 
         self.fused_lamb_legacy = fused_lamb_legacy
+        self._global_grad_norm = 0.
 
         if torch.distributed.get_rank() == 0:
             logger.info(f'Fused Lamb Legacy : {self.fused_lamb_legacy} ')
@@ -217,6 +218,7 @@ def unscale_and_clip_grads(self, norm_groups, apply_scale=True):
         for norm in norm_groups:
             total_norm += norm**2.0
         total_norm = math.sqrt(total_norm)
+        self._global_grad_norm = total_norm
 
         # compute combined scale factor for this group
         combined_scale = self.cur_scale