Resource Management
How to effectively manage compute resources?
Summary
Running complex deep learning models poses a very practical resource management problem: how to give every team the tools they need to train their models without requiring them to operate their own infrastructure?
The most primitive approach is to use spreadsheets that allow people to reserve what resources they need to use.
The next approach is to utilize a SLURM Workload Manager, a free and open-source job scheduler for Linux and Unix-like kernels.
A very standard approach these days is to use Docker alongside Kubernetes.
Docker is a way to package up an entire dependency stack in a lighter-than-a-Virtual-Machine package.
Kubernetes is a way to run many Docker containers on top of a cluster.
The last option is to use open-source projects.
Using Kubeflow allows you to run model training jobs at scale on containers with the same scalability of container orchestration that comes with Kubernetes.
Polyaxon is a self-service multi-user system, taking care of scheduling and managing jobs in order to make the best use of available cluster resources.
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