RAY DATA LLM ENABLES 2X THROUGHPUT OVER VLLM'S SYNCHRONOUS LLM ENGINE AT PRODUCTION-SCALE

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Many of the modern workloads that LLMs are increasingly utilized for prioritize throughput over per-request latency, which many LLM systems and deployments optimize for today. Ray Data LLM is a library built for large-scale batch inference for LLMs. It provides scalable execution, high throughput, and fault tolerance. It has a highly optimized architecture for running LLM batch inference. Users can achieve 2x throughput with Ray Data LLM over vLLM's synchronous LLM engine while benefiting from production-scale resiliency.