Ray Distributed AI Framework Curriculum. Python code. batch scheduling, where the scheduler submits tasks to worker In practice, this function will may more information For scaling out, Orleans also RayOnSpark: Running Emerging AI Applications on Big Data Clusters with Ray and Analytics Zoo instance types are reported below. the values M and N will make it even more difficult to extend the code to Secondly, allowing variable Mujoco: A physics engine for model-based control. Emerging AI applications. generalize to other algorithms. Note that for any object whose lineage includes stateful edges, reconstruction Actor systems.    return trajectory With Ray, the programmer would be are submitted by workers and drivers to local schedulers (there is one recording task dependencies in the GCS during execution. graph, we can leverage the same reconstruction mechanism for both remote %PDF-1.5 add a control edge from T1 to T2. (Budapest, Hungary, September 2004), pp. For example, Control edges capture the computation dependencies that result from nested of Redis servers as message buses and relies on low-level multiprocessing NUS / SoC / CS6203 - Sylvain Riondet - sylvainriondet@gmail.com - 2018-10-19 In contrast, Ray provides transparent fault tolerance and Note that given the cluster size, N, and the average load generated by a node, w, we could pick the number of GCS shards, s and global schedulers, s to bound the load on each shard or global scheduler. Mnih, V., Badia, A. P., Mirza, M., Graves, A., Lillicrap, T. P., Harley, Suppose we wish to parallelize the following serial Though our GCS implementation uses multiple Redis servers, our performance and over previous algorithms. At its core, Ray provides a task-parallel programming model. specialized systems would involve writing a single program that is run by all stateless actors can act as tasks in Ray. across per-node local schedulers (e.g., Canary [37]); using Ray to distribute these algorithms over clusters requires changing only a few lines of code in serial implementations of the algorithms. Dryad [25] and Hadoop [49], implement a centralized and Hand, S. CIEL: A universal execution engine for distributed data-flow GCS and Horizontal Scalability. To evaluate Ray on single node and small cluster RL workloads, we checkpointing of intermediate actor state. Fault tolerance. having each scheduler instance handle a portion of the task graph, but does not distributed scheduler. Authors: Philipp Moritz, Robert Nishihara, Stephanie Wang, Alexey Tumanov, Richard Liaw, Eric Liang, Melih Elibol, Zongheng Yang, William Paul, Michael I. Jordan, and Ion Stoica, UC Berkeley Download Paper Abstract. the system layer, 28% in Python for the application layer. uses shared memory so workers on the same node can read data without copying it. in Ray and show that we are able to match or outperform the performance of In this paper, we propose Ray, a cluster computing framework PyTorch: Tensors and dynamic neural networks in python with strong gpu To meet the performance requirements, Ray employs a distributed scheduler and a distributed and fault-tolerant store to manage the system's control state. applications, while TensorFlow [5], agents. In this paper, we consider these requirements and present Ray — a distributed system to address them. task on node N2, which stores argument b (step 4). The next generation of AI applications will continuously interact with the environment and learn from these interactions. Orleans [14] provides a False otherwise. We show that Ray can meet soft real-time requirements by controlling a added the wait() primitive to accommodate rollouts with heterogeneous by that actor. In this section, we describe how the computation graph (Figure 3(b)) is constructed from a user program (Figure 3(a)). Though not shown in Figure 2, lifetime, we expect these chains to be bounded. implement Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) [41] in The minimalist tools we’ve built so far have already proven useful in our resource requirements Each task has input to store the inputs and outputs of every task. Popular dataflow systems, such as To this architecture, Ray adds global schedulers to balance load At this time, there is no entry for c, as c has Second, to handle resource-heterogeneous tasks, we enable developers to specify IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation Theano [12], PyTorch [4], and Emerging AI applications. tolerance helps save money since it allows us to run on cheap resources like Third, to improve flexibility, we enable nested remote functions, meaning that remote functions can invoke other remote functions. (2015), K. Huff and J. Bergstra, Eds., pp. which rollouts will complete or which rollouts will be used for a environment (see Figure 1(a)). on the same worker or not. Object store performance. challenging benchmarks and serves as both a natural and performant fit Ousterhout, K., Wendell, P., Zaharia, M., and Stoica, I. Sparrow: Distributed, low latency scheduling. As with existing cluster computing frameworks, such as Apache pp. (Berkeley, CA, USA, 2011), NSDI’11, USENIX to simulate low-level message-passing and synchronization primitives, but the ideas. This includes    while (not environment.has_terminated()): Li, L., Jamieson, K., DeSalvo, G., Rostamizadeh, A., and Talwalkar, A. Hyperband: A novel bandit-based approach to hyperparameter typically require substantial engineering effort to develop and which do not environment.step(action). With BSP, all tasks within the same stage222A stage is the unit of parallelism in BSP. One of the key benefits of the Global Control Store (GCS) is the ability to horizontally scale the system. throughput for computation-bound workloads, a profile shared by many AI scheduling, where a global scheduler partitions the task graph implementation runs in a median time of 3.7 minutes, which is more than twice as An Open-Source Framework for AI. local scheduler first, End-to-end scalability of the system is achieved in a linear fashion, leveraging the GCS and bottom-up distributed scheduler. Consider the scenario where one wants to perform an aggregation operation Proceedings of the 2013 workshop on Programming based on policy via policy.update(trajectories). Indeed, some teams report instructing developers to first write serial implementations and then 69–84. branch based on the role of that worker and would likely only work for Proceedings of the 8th ACM European Conference on Computer trigger reconstruction of the lost objects. Ray and compare to a highly-optimized reference implementation simulations. assigned tasks by the system layer. of the tasks have completed or the timeout expires. Relation to deep learning frameworks: Ray is fully compatible with deep learning frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, and MXNet, and it is natural to use one or more deep learning frameworks along with Ray in many applications (for example, our reinforcement learning libraries use TensorFlow and PyTorch heavily). Here, we consider a simple RL First, we store all of the control state of the system in a to easily reproduce most errors. large matrices or trees can be implemented at a higher level (e.g., the Den Driessche, G., Schrittwieser, J., Antonoglou, I., Panneershelvam, V., environment, we need to infer the state of the environment and compute a new and returns c to ray.get() (step 7), which finally completes the led to remarkable results, such as Google’s AlphaGo beating a human world To improve recovery time in such cases, we checkpoint the To scale the GCS, we use sharding. In designing the API, we have emphasized minimalism. Local schedulers may choose to schedule tasks locally Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on In the case of a robot interacting with the physical are commonly used to wrap third-party simulators, which have a finite Ousterhout, J., Gopalan, A., Gupta, A., Kejriwal, A., Lee, C., Montazeri, Authors: Philipp Moritz, Robert Nishihara, Stephanie Wang, Alexey Tumanov, Richard Liaw, Eric Liang, William Paul, Michael I. Jordan, Ion Stoica. Since the local store doesn’t have object a, it looks up and hyperparameter search. From a single client, throughput exceeds 15GB/s (red) for large Nishihara, R., Moritz, P., Wang, S., Tumanov, A., Paul, W., and compare to the reference implementation [39], (step 2). Second, we demonstrate robustness and fault tolerance (Section 6.2). champion [43], and are finding their way into We group these requirements into three categories. performance requirements of AI applications, we propose an Ray exceeds 1 million tasks per second throughput at 60 nodes and continues to scale linearly Return the values associated with a list of futures. Objects are immutable. By storing and managing the entire control state in a centralized fashion, the Deterministic replay and fault tolerance. Tasks also write all outputs to the local object store. [3, 20, 39] that use these systems We empirically validate that Ray speeds up tasks, which are rebalanced by the global scheduler across the 21 available TensorFlow: A system for large-scale machine learning. easily expressed in their APIs. objects and 18K IOPS (cyan) for small objects on a 16 core instance Performance: Interacting with an environment. Actor: A stateful process that executes, when invoked, the methods shows the fraction of tasks that did not arrive fast enough to be used by the Otherwise the scheduling overhead could be The next generation of AI applications will continuously interact with the environment and learn from these interactions. While they achieve great performance for workloads This enables the global scheduler to balance the load across nodes. optimizations are hard. shared memory. Distributed Training Data Processing Streaming Distributed RL Model ... Why a framework for tuning hyperparameters? Design and Implementation. Each worker has to decide what tasks to Like existing hierarchical scheduling solutions, we employ a global MapReduce: Simplified data processing on large clusters. debugging, profiling, and visualization tools on top of the GCS. scheduling event. Dryad relaxes this restriction but We are often asked if fault from the state of the environment to an action to take. Easy parallelization of existing algorithms. third-party services. distributed RL applications and scheduler. while CAF does not support data sharing. as discussed in Section 2, by employing an architecture in which JMLR.org, pp. In turn, second. tasks in less than a minute (54s). Lastly, Ray’s monitor tracks system component liveness and reflects To fully utilize this round to complete, leading to inefficient resource utilization. projects that can be used independently of Ray. Sparrow [36]).    while (policy has not converged): (e.g., policy.compute(state)) is in many cases implemented by overloaded. doesn’t offer an actor-like abstraction, and doesn’t provide fault MapReduce [18], Spark [51], and Dryad [25] action in a matter of milliseconds. between data objects and tasks. parallel when the actor operates on immutable state or has no state. an actor programming abstraction on top of this execution model, in addition to computation graphs, Ray employs a new distributed architecture heterogeneous environments. continually submits and retrieves rounds of 10000 tasks. Power mast framework. require more complex runtime profiling. H1st accomplishes this by combining human and ML models into full execution graphs, reflecting the actual workflow of … The Ray implementation was 12/16/2017 ∙ by Philipp Moritz, et al. operation. non-trivial, and since ML developers prefer to focus on their applications remote task latencies and linear throughput scaling beyond 1.8 million is accessible via the GCS. R., Shenker, S., and Stoica, I. Mesos: A platform for fine-grained resource sharing in the data, Proceedings of the 8th USENIX Conference on Networked Systems Abstract: The next generation of AI applications will continuously interact with the environment and learn from these interactions. focus on the implementation details for achieving the performance targets Ray enables developers to build hyperparameter and using Ray, as well as some of the feedback we’ve received from Fully transparent fault tolerance for actor methods. Since actors (i.e. Table 4 summarizes techniques for scaling each component and the associated overhead. system that we compare to. We then Dynamic task graphs. (c"rĠw�V�T]��m{�� Au�g �� ��� .��S�C�/��Ф0�x恕L4�O�5�#.���BSS� m8�ɳ�t�y����h��^p�0�Ž��)���y��K��FUf�bQ(��\7��"��33�l!��ߕ``/�R#U"�8̂v(�C��0�����+j�j��Ӄ���H� ����G{���0�gP#V�����߻v{�`�c��=x�pe��� ��U�⹡�b����rd�ō��N��� `؊4h��ok����ht����RE � Ananthanarayanan, G., Kandula, S., Greenberg, A., Stoica, I., Lu, Y., (Berkeley, CA, USA, 2011), NSDI’11, USENIX However, the actions are only taken if they are received by the driver within An RL system consists of an agent that interacts repeatedly with the scheduler. In addition, storing lineage for each task requires scheduler and per-node local schedulers. the tasks originally submitted by the driver stall, since their dependencies provides improved scalability for some workloads, but only supports static task Ray is closely related to Ray is packaged with the following libraries for accelerating machine learning workloads: Tune: Scalable Hyperparameter Tuning; RLlib: Scalable Reinforcement Learning; Distributed Training To determine the load, the local scheduler checks the Aside: Stateful 3 rd Party Libraries in a Stateless System Alongside typical task-parallel execution, Ray supports the Erlang TensorFlow and MXNet in principle achieve generality by allowing the programmer These Spark and MapReduce implement the BSP execution In addition, we test Ray in a latency-sensitive setting in which Ray support neither the throughput nor the latencies required by general RL This not only simplifies the global state store is not suitable for sharing large objects such as ML models, Spark [50], and Dryad [25], the object store Casado, M., Freedman, M. J., Pettit, J., Luo, J., McKeown, N., and will require reinstantiating the actor (e.g., A10) and replaying a possibly This is also critical for achieving high scalability (see Section 4), as it enables multiple processes to invoke remote functions in parallel (otherwise the driver becomes a bottleneck for task invocations). particular policy update. Figure 2 shows an example of the pseudocode used by an architecture. There are also two types of existing programming language (Python), while CIEL provides its own Ray: A Distributed Framework for Emerging AI Applications The next generation of AI applications will continuously interact with the environment and learn from these interactions. Bar plots report throughput with 1, 2, 4, 8, 16 threads. Next, the global scheduler looks up the locations of Parallelizing a serial implementation All experiments were run on Amazon Web Services. Over the past decade, the bulk synchronous processing (BSP) model has proven highly effective for processing large amounts of data. The local scheduler sends periodic heartbeats (every 100ms) to the marked as lost, and objects are later reconstructed with lineage information, as multiple sensors, such as video, microphone, and radar. There are several approaches to improve scheduling scalability: (1) result c in the local object store (step 3), which in turn adds c’s entry file systems (e.g., GFS [22]), resource management The time it takes to compute a trajectory can vary learn a policy that maximizes some reward. It uses 8 threads to copy objects larger than 0.5MB and 1 thread for obviates the need for users to handle faults explicitly. execute and has to explicitly dictate logic for optimizations such as batching, To capture the state dependency across subsequent method invocations on the same actor, we add a third type of edge: a stateful edge. scripting language (Skywriting). identical resources, in this case preventing the use of CPU-only machines for We track two metrics for object store performance: IOPS (for small objects) instantiate more replicas and have each local scheduler randomly pick a replica it would be natural to update Thus, to reconstruct rollout12, we need You can help us understand how dblp is used and perceived by answering our user survey (taking 10 to 15 minutes). task-parallel and the actor abstractions—we focus on RL updates to significantly improve training times latest state from the GCS), but also makes it easy to horizontally scale every Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth ACM Symposium on Operating Call a method. architecture that logically centralizes the system’s control state on multiple data points in a distributed fashion. actor methods) are deterministic. In the future, we hope to further reduce While currently we are in Figure 3(b), and assume that rollout12 has Armstrong, J., Virding, R., Wikström, C., and Williams, M. Beattie, C., Leibo, J. Machine learning frameworks. be easily adapted to different algorithms or communication patterns. and suppose each task takes 5ms to execute. to simulate different real-time requirements. In contrast with SDNs, BOOM, and GFS which couple the It uses a hierarchy pseudocode illustrating this point in Section B.1. These could also inform scheduling decisions in the Ray system layer (Section 4.2). write and reason about. This increases takes either object values or futures as arguments. scheduler (step 1), which forwards it to a global scheduler internally. algorithms. for all of them) and to launch new rollouts to maintain a pool    policy←initial_policy() 210s, Ray is able to fully recover to its initial As such, we need to be able to schedule tasks in However, they differ in two important Dynamic task graphs. Thus, Ray provides a powerful combination of flexibility, performance, and ease of use for the development of future AI applications. applications. Ray: A Distributed Framework for Emerging AI Applications Philipp Moritz, Robert Nishihara, Stephanie Wang, Alexey Tumanov, Richard Liaw, Eric Liang, William Paul, Michael I. Jordan, Ion Stoica UC Berkeley Abstract The next generation of AI applications will continuously interact with the environment and learn from these in-teractions. The next generation of AI applications will continuously interact with the environment and learn from these interactions. Given a list of futures, return the futures whose corresponding tasks have completed. and build Ray, a cluster computing system that realizes this architecture. To provide the policy as soon as a subset of rollouts finish (instead of waiting The local scheduler at have widespread adoption for analytics and ML workloads, but their computation state (e.g., environment.step(action)) involves processing the inputs of The dashed line forms of state. Killer 3 years ago . Ray shards, Techniques for achieving fault tolerance in Ray, https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/. Based on early user feedback, we are considering enhancing the API edges: data edges and control edges. N1 and N2, respectively. fast as the best published result (10 minutes). In this section, we briefly explain how our design satisfies the requirements Michael I. Jordan explores applications in artificial intelligence. If the global scheduler becomes a bottleneck, we can Since we can associate pseudo-random Next, N1 replicates c from N2 (step 6), control or autonomous driving, require actions to be taken quickly in .. There are three characteristics that distinguish RL applications from maintain balanced load throughout the system. lineage graph, we can easily reconstruct lost data, whether produced by remote However, today we are witnessing the emergence of a new class of applications, i.e., AI workloads. Futures can be retrieved using ray.get() and composed, i.e., a and amortize the overhead of expensive initializations. applications described in Section 2, reinforcement learning object store replicates it locally (step 7). 439–455. Proceedings of the 9th USENIX conference on Networked Systems All previous method calls for each lost actor must be re-executed self-driving cars, UAVs [33], and robotic manipulation Actors are perpetual and throughput is comparable to that without checkpointing. 59–72. more tasks as it maximizes utilization of the local node before forwarding tasks Erlang [9] and C++ Actor Framework This generally requires massive amounts of computation; for resources. also parallelize computation of an object’s content hash, which is used to Ray tracks lineage by Squyres, J. M., Sahay, V., Kambadur, P., Barrett, B., Lumsdaine, A., Castain, To support the heterogeneous and consisting of static DAGs of linear algebra operations, they have limited Second, the computation graph of an RL application is lineage-based fault tolerance. global control store, which enables all of the other components After all, due to the statistical evaluate the policy, the pseudocode invokes rollout(environment, these applications have largely been based on a fairly restricted supervised Charousset, D., Schmidt, T. C., Hiesgen, R., and Wählisch, M. Native actors: A scalable software platform for distributed, This is highly beneficial for RL applications, as simulations may have widely different durations, but complicates fault tolerance due to introduced nondeterminism. that is horizontally scalable. dynamic computation graphs, while handling millions of tasks per second with Each local scheduler sends periodic heartbeats (e.g., every 100ms) to the Based After node failure, the actor’s state (t=210-270s). customize on top of Ray and so difficult in the special-purpose reference throughput of new tasks (cyan) and re-executed tasks (red). Global control state and scheduling. As shown in the code below, programs would need to are automatically redistributed across the available nodes, as a remote actor, and return a reference to it. If a local disk using a least-recently-used eviction policy. Tasks and objects on failed cluster nodes are Recovering from actor failures. In our experiments, we demonstrate scaling beyond 1.8 million tasks per second and better performance than existing specialized systems for several challenging reinforcement learning applications. scheduler (Section 4.2.2) is 3.2KLoC and will undergo significant We make the following contributions: We specify the systems requirements for emerging AI applications: support be a bottleneck. A driver on the first node submits 100K 130 – 136. It achieves scalability and fault tolerance by abstracting the control state of the system in a global control store and keeping all other components stateless. ray-project/ray official. order of milliseconds as well. These applications impose new and demanding systems requirements, both in terms of performance and flexibility. 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To satisfy the requirements for heterogeneity, flexibility, and ease of development given in Section 2, we augment the task-parallel programming model in four ways. fault tolerance requirements could also be met by existing systems like [28] in roughly 30 lines of Python code using Ray. Why Every Python Developer Will Love Ray. able to easily aggregate data in an efficient manner.      trajectories←[] example, a realistic application might perform hundreds of millions of which normally a task scheduler could take care of. current length of its task queue. In Fig. future that represents the result of the task is returned immediately. Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing. To make the GCS fault tolerant, we replicate each of the database shards. Furthermore, this simulators. a driver. We include We've been working on it at Berkeley for more than one year. To meet these demands, Ray introduces a global control store and a bottom-up distributed scheduler. At its core, our system leverages a global control store (GCS), which stores all functions and actors. The Ray reported in Section 6.1, we were able to scale the results by In contrast, the global control store can be scaled via sharding and made fault Together, this architecture implements dynamic task graph execution, which in turn supports both a task-parallel and an actor programming model. need to be able to schedule hundreds of thousands or even millions of tasks per Centralizing the system control information allows us to easily build Gabriel, E., Fagg, G. E., Bosilca, G., Angskun, T., Dongarra, J. J., provide an actor abstraction, nor implement a distributed scalable control plane If the length exceeds some Together, this architecture implements dynamic task graph execution, which in turn supports both a task-parallel and an actor programming model. implementations (sending and receiving data via queues). The driver submits tasks that long chain of stateful edges (e.g., A11,A12, etc). The next generation of AI applications will continuously interact with the environment and learn from these interactions. task. libraries for sharing data. Instead of making and serving The definitions of [13], DeepMind Lab [10], 126–132. To minimize task latency, we implement an in-memory distributed storage system A Distributed Execution Framework for Emerging AI Applications BDD/RISE mini-retreat Philipp Moritz. In contrast, the Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2012 IEEE/RSJ End-to-end scalability. implements a dynamic task graph computation model that supports both broader setting than standard supervised learning. on Computer Systems 2007. The object store peaks at 18K IOPS, which corresponds to 56μs per add() (step 1). First, we examine the scalability of the system as a It also enables users Shenker, S. Ethane: Taking control of the enterprise. local scheduler first, not to a global scheduler custom protocol for communicating tasks and data between workers and could not Overhead from GCS replication. For everything else, email us at [email protected]. Furthermore, none of these systems they capture the implicit data dependency between successive method invocations sharing addresses Ray’s demands. Thus, all methods invoked on the same actor object form a chain connected by stateful edges (Figure 3(b)). R. H., Daniel, D. J., Graham, R. L., and Woodall, T. S. Open MPI: Goals, concept, and design of a next generation MPI A Ray driver runs the simulated robot and tasks to the actors in the cluster. While Ray can support a variety of workloads—as it provides both the As with ES, we were able to parallelize PPO using Also, like these systems, Ray assumes The flexibility of a system is typically measured cluster, we would need to schedule 640K tasks/sec. (CAF) [16], two other actor-based systems, also require However, the overall task throughput remains stable, fully Learning that a is stored at N1, N2’s This implies idempotence, which simplifies fault tolerance through function re-execution on failure. it exposes. The GCS is instrumental to Ray’s horizontal scalability. However, we’ve also found actors to be useful for managing more general single-threaded processes. The concept of logically centralizing the control plane has been previously December 12, 2018. Ray is more scalable, scaling to 8192 physical cores, whereas the In Notice that more complicated management schemes can be implemented fairly easily, can reuse the same object reconstruction mechanism as in GCS enables every other component to be stateless. Artificial intelligence is currently emerging as the workhorse technology for a Ray employs a dynamic task graph computation model [19], in which the execution of both remote functions and actor methods is automatically triggered by the system when their inputs become available. [11], the Newtonian dynamics of a physical system such as Ignoring actors first, there are two types of nodes in a computation graph: data Scheduling optimizations in Ray might aspects. enables Ray to support stateful components, such as third-party Sears, R. BOOM Analytics: exploring data-centric, declarative programming The fact that the API is provided in Python, the most popular language in the AI community, has been a big plus. addition, Orleans provides at-least-once semantics. every global scheduler schedules independent jobs. tolerance to become even more important. For workloads in which we artificially make the GCS the bottleneck by deep learning frameworks like TensorFlow [5], requirements are naturally framed within the paradigm of reinforcement learning future distributed systems. satisfies the requirements outlined in Section 2. (step 8), which accesses the arguments via shared memory (step 9). up its location in the GCS. (b) Task graph for processing sensor inputs. distributed frameworks (OpenMPI and Ray) for communication between on the remote actor and return a list of futures. some overhead. is used to control a simulated robot under varying real-time requirements. to parallelize them using Ray. Ray uses Apache Arrow [1] Bibliographic details on Ray: A Distributed Framework for Emerging AI Applications. sizes of the task’s inputs (from the GCS’s object metadata) to decide which node to (ICRA 2017). simple example that adds two objects a and b, which could be scalars or (m4.4xlarge). 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