Ray

Anyscale is a unified AI platform built around Ray, the world’s leading AI compute engine, designed to help teams build, deploy, and scale AI and Python applications efficiently. The platform offers RayTurbo, an optimized version of Ray that delivers up to 4.5x faster data workloads, 6.1x cost savings on large language model inference, and up to 90% lower costs through elastic training and spot instances. Anyscale provides a seamless developer experience with integrated tools like VSCode and Jupyter, automated dependency management, and expert-built app templates. Deployment options are flexible, supporting public clouds, on-premises clusters, and Kubernetes environments. Anyscale Jobs and Services enable reliable production-grade batch processing and scalable web services with features like job queuing, retries, observability, and zero-downtime upgrades. Security and compliance are ensured with private data environments, auditing, access controls, and SOC 2 Type II attestation.

Horovod was originally developed by Uber to make distributed deep learning fast and easy to use, bringing model training time down from days and weeks to hours and minutes. With Horovod, an existing training script can be scaled up to run on hundreds of GPUs in just a few lines of Python code. Horovod can be installed on-premise or run out-of-the-box in cloud platforms, including AWS, Azure, and Databricks. Horovod can additionally run on top of Apache Spark, making it possible to unify data processing and model training into a single pipeline. Once Horovod has been configured, the same infrastructure can be used to train models with any framework, making it easy to switch between TensorFlow, PyTorch, MXNet, and future frameworks as machine learning tech stacks continue to evolve.