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Ray is an AI compute engine with a core distributed runtime and AI Libraries for accelerating ML workloads.
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Ray offers a core distributed runtime and specialized libraries for optimizing ML workloads in Python.
Good fit when
- When you need to develop applications that require the distribution of tasks across multiple machines.
- For projects involving reinforcement learning, thanks to Ray's RLlib library specifically tailored for these needs.
Avoid when
- For simplistic projects or single-machine use cases, as Ray's distributed architecture may introduce unnecessary complexity.
- If your project strictly adheres to languages other than Python, since most of the ecosystem and support revolves around Python.
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Overview
A framework designed to simplify the process of writing applications that run across many machines. It includes various libraries like RLlib (for reinforcement learning) and support for large language models serving and inference.
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Ray is a unified framework for scaling AI and Python applications. Ray consists of a core distributed runtime and a set of AI librariSource link
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Ray is a unified framework for scaling AI and Python applications. Ray consists of a core distributed runtime and a set of AI libraries for simplifying ML compute:
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Learn more about Ray AI Libraries_:
Data_: Scalable Datasets for MLTrain_: Distributed TrainingTune_: Scalable Hyperparameter TuningRLlib_: Scalable Reinforcement LearningServe_: Scalable and Programmable Serving
Or more about Ray Core_ and its key abstractions:
Tasks_: Stateless functions executed in the cluster.Actors_: Stateful worker processes created in the cluster.Objects_: Immutable values accessible across the cluster.
Learn more about Monitoring and Debugging:
- Monitor Ray apps and clusters with the
Ray Dashboard <https://docs.ray.io/en/latest/ray-core/ray-dashboard.html>__. - Debug Ray apps with the
Ray Distributed Debugger <https://docs.ray.io/en/latest/ray-observability/ray-distributed-debugger.html>__.
Ray runs on any machine, cluster, cloud provider, and Kubernetes, and features a growing
ecosystem of community integrations_.
Install Ray with: pip install ray. For nightly wheels, see the
Installation page <https://docs.ray.io/en/latest/ray-overview/installation.html>__.
.. _Serve: https://docs.ray.io/en/latest/serve/index.html
.. _Data: https://docs.ray.io/en/latest/data/data.html
.. _Workflow: https://docs.ray.io/en/latest/workflows/
.. _Train: https://docs.ray.io/en/latest/train/train.html
.. _Tune: https://docs.ray.io/en/latest/tune/index.html
.. _RLlib: https://docs.ray.io/en/latest/rllib/index.html
.. _ecosystem of community integrations: https://docs.ray.io/en/latest/ray-overview/ray-libraries.html
Why Ray?
Today's ML workloads are increasingly compute-intensive. As convenient as they are, single-node development environments such as your laptop cannot scale to meet these demands.
Ray is a unified way to scale Python and AI applications from a laptop to a cluster.
With Ray, you can seamlessly scale the same code from a laptop to a cluster. Ray is designed to be general-purpose, meaning that it can performantly run any kind of workload. If your application is written in Python, you can scale it with Ray, no other infrastructure required.
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Documentation_Ray Architecture whitepaper_Exoshuffle: large-scale data shuffle in Ray
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