Ray Meetup
Ray Meetup @ Data + AI Denver Meetup: Ray, a framework for scaling and distributing Python & ML applications
Wednesday, February 16 4:30 PM PSTModern machine learning (ML) workloads, such as deep learning and large-scale model training, are compute-intensive and require distributed execution. Ray is an open-source, distributed framework from U.C. Berkeley’s RISELab that easily scales Python applications and ML workloads from a laptop to a cluster, with an emphasis on the unique performance challenges of ML/AI systems. It is now used in many production deployments.
This talk will cover Ray’s overview, architecture, core concepts, and primitives, such as remote Tasks and Actors; briefly discuss Ray native libraries (Ray Tune, Ray Train, Ray Serve, Ray Datasets, RLlib); and Ray’s growing ecosystem.
Through a demo using XGBoost for classification, we will demonstrate how you can scale training, hyperparameter tuning, and inference—from a single node to a cluster, with tangible performance difference when using Ray.
The takeaways from this talk are :
Learn Ray architecture, core concepts, and Ray primitives and patterns
Why Distributed computing will be the norm not an exception
How to scale your ML workloads with Ray libraries:
Training on a single node vs. Ray cluster, using XGBoost with/without Ray
Hyperparameter search and tuning, using XGBoost with Ray and Ray Tune
Inferencing at scale, using XGBoost with/without Ray
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Speakers
Jules Damji
Lead developer advocate, Anyscale
Jules S. Damji is a lead developer advocate at Anyscale and an MLflow contributor. He is a hands-on developer with over 20+ years of experience and has worked at leading companies, such as Sun Microsystems, Netscape, @Home, Opsware/Loudcloud, VeriSign, ProQuest, Hortonworks, and Databricks, building large-scale distributed systems. He holds a B.Sc and M.Sc in Computer Science (from Oregon State University and Cal State, Chico respectively), and an MA in Political Advocacy and Communication (from Johns Hopkins University).