diff --git a/colossalai/gemini/memory_tracer/module_tracer_wrapper.py b/colossalai/gemini/memory_tracer/module_tracer_wrapper.py
index 9967df627..ab139516c 100644
--- a/colossalai/gemini/memory_tracer/module_tracer_wrapper.py
+++ b/colossalai/gemini/memory_tracer/module_tracer_wrapper.py
@@ -28,6 +28,9 @@ class _Wrapper():
     def show_mem_stats(self):
         self._ophook_list[0].show_mem_stats()
 
+    def named_buffers(self):
+        return self._model.named_buffers()
+
 
 def MemtracerWrapper(model):
     ophook_list = [MemTracerOpHook()]
diff --git a/colossalai/gemini/ophooks/mem_trace_hook.py b/colossalai/gemini/ophooks/mem_trace_hook.py
index 49982b175..697655259 100644
--- a/colossalai/gemini/ophooks/mem_trace_hook.py
+++ b/colossalai/gemini/ophooks/mem_trace_hook.py
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ from colossalai.gemini.ophooks import BaseOpHook
 class MemTracerOpHook(BaseOpHook):
     """
     TODO() what if parameters are sharded by multiple submodules.
+    register buff on its father node
     """
 
     def __init__(self):
diff --git a/tests/test_gemini/test_mem_tracer.py b/tests/test_gemini/test_mem_tracer.py
index c7700d9d7..05da462a4 100644
--- a/tests/test_gemini/test_mem_tracer.py
+++ b/tests/test_gemini/test_mem_tracer.py
@@ -1,8 +1,13 @@
+from functools import partial
+
+import pytest
 import torch
-import torch.nn as nn
+import torch.multiprocessing as mp
 
 import colossalai
 from colossalai.gemini.memory_tracer import MemtracerWrapper
+from colossalai.testing import rerun_if_address_is_in_use
+from colossalai.utils import free_port
 from tests.components_to_test.registry import non_distributed_component_funcs
 
 
@@ -17,16 +22,20 @@ def run_fwd_bwd(model, data, label, criterion, enable_autocast=False):
     model.backward(loss)
 
 
-def test_tracer():
-    # reset the manager, in case that there exists memory information left
-    test_models = ['repeated_computed_layers', 'resnet18', 'no_leaf_module']
+def run_tracer(rank, world_size, port, grad_check=True):
+    colossalai.launch(config={}, rank=rank, world_size=world_size, host='localhost', port=port, backend='nccl')
+    test_models = ['repeated_computed_layers', 'resnet18', 'no_leaf_module', 'bert']
     for model_name in test_models:
         get_components_func = non_distributed_component_funcs.get_callable(model_name)
         model_builder, train_dataloader, _, _, criterion = get_components_func()
 
         # init model on cpu
-        model = MemtracerWrapper(model_builder())
+        # TODO() memtrace hook can not handle buff registered on a non-leaf module (for example the BertEmbedding).
+        # a simple method is that always puts buff on cuda and viewed them as non-model data.
+        model = MemtracerWrapper(model_builder(grad_check))
 
+        for n, buff in model.named_buffers():
+            buff.data = buff.data.cuda()
         for i, (data, label) in enumerate(train_dataloader):
             if i > 1:
                 break
@@ -38,5 +47,13 @@ def test_tracer():
         # model._ophook_list[0].print_non_model_data()
 
 
+@pytest.mark.dist
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("world_size", [1])
+@rerun_if_address_is_in_use()
+def test_tracer(world_size):
+    run_func = partial(run_tracer, world_size=world_size, port=free_port())
+    mp.spawn(run_func, nprocs=world_size)
+
+
 if __name__ == '__main__':
-    test_tracer()
+    test_tracer(1)
diff --git a/tests/test_zero/test_shard_model_v2.py b/tests/test_zero/test_shard_model_v2.py
index 654c82a46..d77a78e8e 100644
--- a/tests/test_zero/test_shard_model_v2.py
+++ b/tests/test_zero/test_shard_model_v2.py
@@ -3,21 +3,21 @@
 
 from functools import partial
 
-import colossalai
 import pytest
 import torch
 import torch.multiprocessing as mp
+from common import CONFIG, check_grads_padding, run_fwd_bwd
+from torch.nn.parallel import DistributedDataParallel as DDP
+
+import colossalai
 from colossalai.testing import parameterize, rerun_if_address_is_in_use
 from colossalai.utils import free_port
 from colossalai.zero.init_ctx import ZeroInitContext
-from colossalai.zero.shard_utils import (BucketTensorShardStrategy, TensorShardStrategy)
+from colossalai.zero.shard_utils import BucketTensorShardStrategy
 from colossalai.zero.sharded_model import ShardedModelV2
 from colossalai.zero.sharded_model._utils import cast_tensor_to_fp16
 from colossalai.zero.sharded_model.utils import col_model_deepcopy
 from tests.components_to_test.registry import non_distributed_component_funcs
-from torch.nn.parallel import DistributedDataParallel as DDP
-
-from common import CONFIG, check_grads_padding, run_fwd_bwd
 
 
 @parameterize("enable_autocast", [True])