There are several notable differences when using Ray:
- A single launch command (on any node) is needed to start all local and remote DP ranks, therefore it is more convenient compared to launching on each node
- There is no need to specify `--data-parallel-address`, and the node where the command is run is used as `--data-parallel-address`
- There is no need to specify `--data-parallel-rpc-port`
- Remote DP ranks will be allocated based on node resources of the Ray cluster
Currently, the internal DP load balancing is done within the API server process(es) and is based on the running and waiting queues in each of the engines. This could be made more sophisticated in future by incorporating KV cache aware logic.
Currently, the internal DP load balancing is done within the API server process(es) and is based on the running and waiting queues in each of the engines. This could be made more sophisticated in future by incorporating KV cache aware logic.
When deploying large DP sizes using this method, the API server process can become a bottleneck. In this case, the orthogonal `--api-server-count` command line option can be used to scale this out (for example `--api-server-count=4`). This is transparent to users - a single HTTP endpoint / port is still exposed. Note that this API server scale-out is "internal" and still confined to the "head" node.
When deploying large DP sizes using this method, the API server process can become a bottleneck. In this case, the orthogonal `--api-server-count` command line option can be used to scale this out (for example `--api-server-count=4`). This is transparent to users - a single HTTP endpoint / port is still exposed. Note that this API server scale-out is "internal" and still confined to the "head" node.