# Dynamo

A Datacenter Scale Distributed Inference Serving Framework

[![License](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-Apache_2.0-blue.svg)](https://opensource.org/licenses/Apache-2.0) [![GitHub Release](https://img.shields.io/github/v/release/ai-dynamo/dynamo)](https://github.com/ai-dynamo/dynamo/releases/latest) Dynamo is a flexible, component based, data center scale inference serving framework designed to meet the demands of complex use cases including those of Generative AI. It is designed to enable developers to implement and customize routing, load balancing, scaling and workflow definitions at the data center scale without sacrificing performance or ease of use. > [!NOTE] > This project is currently in the alpha / experimental / > rapid-prototyping stage and we are actively looking for feedback and > collaborators. ## Building Dynamo ### Requirements Dynamo development and examples are container based. * [Docker](https://docs.docker.com/get-started/get-docker/) * [buildx](https://github.com/docker/buildx) ### Development You can build the Dynamo container using the build scripts in `container/` (or directly with `docker build`). We provide 3 types of builds: 1. `STANDARD` which includes our default set of backends (onnx, openvino...) 2. `TENSORRTLLM` which includes our TRT-LLM backend 3. `VLLM` which includes our VLLM backend using NCCL communication library. 4. `VLLM_NIXL` which includes our VLLM backend using new NIXL communication library. For example, if you want to build a container for the `STANDARD` backends you can run ```bash ./container/build.sh ``` Please see the instructions in the corresponding example for specific build instructions. ## Running Dynamo for Local Testing and Development You can run the Dynamo container using the run scripts in `container/` (or directly with `docker run`). The run script offers a few common workflows: 1. Running a command in a container and exiting. ```bash ./container/run.sh -- python3 -c "import dynamo.runtime; help(dynamo.runtime)" ``` ```bash ./container/run.sh -it ``` 3. Mounting the local workspace and Starting an interactive shell. ```bash ./container/run.sh -it --mount-workspace ``` The last command also passes common environment variables ( `-e HF_TOKEN` ) and mounts common directories such as `/tmp:/tmp`, `/mnt:/mnt`. Please see the instructions in the corresponding example for specific deployment instructions. ## Rust Based Runtime Dynamo has a new rust based distributed runtime with implementation under development. The rust based runtime enables serving arbitrary python code as well as native rust. Please note the APIs are subject to change. ### Hello World [Hello World](./lib/bindings/python/examples/hello_world) A basic example demonstrating the rust based runtime and python bindings. ### LLM [VLLM](./examples/python_rs/llm/vllm) An intermediate example expanding further on the concepts introduced in the Hello World example. In this example, we demonstrate [Disaggregated Serving](https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.09670) as an application of the components defined in Dynamo. # Disclaimers > [!NOTE] > This project is currently in the alpha / experimental / > rapid-prototyping stage and we will be adding new features incrementally. 1. The `TENSORRTLLM` and `VLLM` containers are WIP and not expected to work out of the box. 2. Testing has primarily been on single node systems with processes launched within a single container.