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       Show HN: Dstack - an open-source engine for running GPU workloads
        
       Author : AsDivyansh
       Score  : 90 points
       Date   : 2024-02-15 14:03 UTC (8 hours ago)
        
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       | cheptsov wrote:
       | Thanks for sharing dstack on HN. I'm the creator of dstack and
       | would love to hear your feedback. We're also working on creating
       | a new standard for GPU orchestration, similar to Kubernetes.
        
         | marmaduke wrote:
         | Any chance you'll support "traditional" batch HPC environments
         | like Slurm?
        
           | cheptsov wrote:
           | Yup, that's what we are building now. Tasks will allow to
           | specify how many nodes you need, and dstack will
           | automatically provision a cluster or will run it using the
           | one that is already provisioned. Please feel free to ping me
           | on our Diacord if you'd like to test an early version!
        
         | kretaceous wrote:
         | > Thanks for sharing dstack on HN
         | 
         | Seems like this is wrongly tagged as Show HN. @dang, please fix
         | the title after confirmation.
        
         | nacs wrote:
         | From the screencast on the homepage and in the docs [1], I see
         | Google and Azure clouds are supported as targets.
         | 
         | Is there a list of other targets? Is Runpod and vast.ai
         | supported for example (since they're more focused on GPUs)?
         | 
         | 1: https://dstack.ai/docs/concepts/dev-environments/#define-
         | a-c...
        
           | cheptsov wrote:
           | Vast.ai is supported. RunPod not yet but on our list! The
           | full list of all supported targets can be found at
           | https://dstack.ai/docs/installation/
        
         | doctorpangloss wrote:
         | > We're also working on creating a new standard for GPU
         | orchestration, similar to Kubernetes.
         | 
         | What about improving GPU orchestration on Kubernetes instead?
        
           | cheptsov wrote:
           | To be frank, I'm not a fan of Kubernetes as long as GPU is
           | concerned. Kubernetes has a very large legacy. Why we think
           | dstack can do better: 1. Lightweight-ness - that it very easy
           | to integrate dstack with modern cloud GPU providers. 2. AI-
           | friendly interface built-in - no need to things like KubeFlow
           | and alike.
           | 
           | FTR, we integrate dstack with Kubernetes too - already [1]
           | But our native cloud integrations can be a lot more
           | efficient. For example, when it comes to auto-scaling - this
           | part is in work
           | 
           | 1. https://dstack.ai/changelog/0.15.1/
        
       | thruflo wrote:
       | This looks really well done. Feels like a Hashicorp product --
       | does one thing well, abstracts across cloud providers and
       | provides a tight DX.
       | 
       | Kudos!
        
         | cheptsov wrote:
         | Thank you! Yes, that's precisely our intent. Most AI platforms
         | offer nice yet proprietary solutions for training and
         | deployment. We wish there were a simple and open standard that
         | any provider could support.
        
       | mistrial9 wrote:
       | "Embrace Dev Environments, Leave Manual SSH Behind" ?
        
         | cheptsov wrote:
         | This is from https://dstack.ai/blog/2023/06/29/say-goodbye-to-
         | managed-not... Yup, that's why we support dev environments as
         | first-class citizens. Now, also support tasks (for fine-tuning,
         | other batch jobs) and services (deployment, incl. OpenAI
         | compatibility for LLMs).
        
       | crazytest wrote:
       | Congrats! Looks great
        
       | Muhtasham wrote:
       | Super useful for spinning LLM fine-tuning jobs!
        
       | tenerife_123 wrote:
       | Looks really amazing! Thanks dstack team :)
        
       | gamesbrainiac wrote:
       | I remember Andrey (the founder) leaving JetBrains to start this.
       | I'm glad he stuck to it, and that it is slowly finding a space in
       | developer discourse. I'm still not sure I totally understand
       | MLOps yet, but then again I don't do a lot of ML workloads.
        
       | theaniketmaurya wrote:
       | great to see this project coming up so well. I had a chat with
       | Adrey years ago. Congratulations!!
        
       | mich5632 wrote:
       | Looking great, thanks for building this
        
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