Ray: The Next Generation Compute Runtime for ML Applications

QCon San Francisco 2022

Session Machine Learning

Ray: The Next Generation Compute Runtime for ML Applications

Monday Oct 24 / 10:35AM PDT, Pacific DEKJ

Abstract

Ray is an open source project that makes it simple to scale any compute-intensive Python workload. Industry leaders like Uber, Shopify, Spotify are building their next generation ML platforms on top of Ray. Ray is equipped with a powerful distributed scheduling mechanism which launches stateful Actors and stateless Tasks in a much more granular and lightweight fashion than existing frameworks. Meanwhile it also has an embedded distributed in-memory object store to drastically reduce data exchange overhead. These architectural advantages make Ray the ideal compute substrate for cutting-edge ML use cases including Graph Neural Networks, Online Learning, Reinforcement Learning, and so forth.

This talk will introduce the basic API and architectural concepts of Ray, as well as diving deeper into some of its innovative ML use cases.

Topics

Machine Learning Open Source Graph Neural Networks Online Learning Reinforcement Learning
76% senior dev or higher
1:11 speaker ratio
60+ practitioners

QCon San Francisco 2022 is a three day conference for senior software engineers, architects and team leads. An international program committee of working engineers selects every session. Patterns and practices, not products and pitches.

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