Ray - A Distributed System for Emerging AI Applications

Explore the cutting-edge distributed system Ray, designed to support emerging AI applications, in this 42-minute conference talk from Strange Loop. Delve into the evolution from bulk synchronous processing to new requirements like nested parallelism and heterogeneous computations. Learn about Ray's task-parallel and actor abstractions, its highly scalable architecture featuring an in-memory storage system and distributed scheduler. Gain insights into the design decisions behind Ray and discover its practical applications through early implementation experiences shared by speakers Stephanie Wang and Robert Nishihara.