Paper Reading: Ray: A Distributed Framework for Emerging AI Applications

Paper link: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/osdi18-moritz.pdf

Overview

Ray is a new and grossing distributed programming framework, with an ambitious plan to be the foundation of emerging AI/ML applications. In its own words, it aims to “provide a universal API for distributed computing”. Which means it needs to provide a programming interface that’s flexible enough for new applications, and a backend system designed to scale for elastic computing needs with some good performance. This paper (OSDI 18’) explains its API and architecture design to fulfill this goal. And I’ve found some very interesting points.

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