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Ray: A Distributed Execution Framework for Emerging AI Applications

Philipp Moritz, Robert Nishihara, Stephanie Wang, Alexey Tumanov, Richard Liaw, Edward Liang, Melih Elibol, Zongheng Yang, William Paul, Michael I. Jordan, Ion Stoica · USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI) (2018)

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Principal Contribution

Unified actor and task-parallel dynamic execution engine powered by a shared-memory object store (Plasma) for scaling distributed Python workloads.

Operational Relevance

Directly guides deployment choices and architecture selection for task-distributed-training, task-reinforcement-learning.

Assumptions

  • Standard empirical regularity and statistical stability hold across evaluation domains

Limitations

  • Performance characteristics depend on domain distribution and compute allocation parameters

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