Backend.AI is a streamlined backend API server that hosts heterogeneous programming languages and popular AI frameworks. It manages the underlying computing resources for multi-tenant computation sessions where such sessions are spawned and executed instantly on demand.
If you want to run a Backend.AI cluster on your own, you need to install and configure the following server-side components. All server-side components are licensed under LGPLv3 to promote non-proprietary open innovation in the open-source community.
There is no obligation to open your service/system codes if you just run the server-side components as-is (e.g., just run as daemons or import the components without modification in your codes). Please contact us (contact-at-lablup-com) for commercial consulting and more licensing details/options about individual use-cases.
For details about server installation and configuration, please visit our documentation.
It routes external API requests from front-end services to individual agents. It also monitors and scales the cluster of multiple agents (a few tens to hundreds).
- Package namespace:
ai.backend.gatewayandai.backend.manager - https://github.com/lablup/backend.ai-manager
It manages individual server instances and launches/destroys Docker containers where REPL daemons (kernels) run. Each agent on a new EC2 instance self-registers itself to the instance registry via heartbeats.
- https://github.com/lablup/backend.ai-agent
- Package namespace:
ai.backend.agent
- Package namespace:
- https://github.com/lablup/backend.ai-accelerator-cuda (CUDA accelerator plugin)
- Package namespace:
ai.backend.acceelrator.cuda
- Package namespace:
- https://github.com/lablup/backend.ai-stats-monitor
- Statistics collector based on the Datadog API
- Package namespace:
ai.backend.monitor.stats
- https://github.com/lablup/backend.ai-error-monitor
- Exception collector based on the Sentry API
- Package namespace:
ai.backend.monitor.error
A set of small ZeroMQ-based REPL daemons in various programming languages and configurations.
- https://github.com/lablup/backend.ai-kernel-runner
- Package namespace:
ai.backend.kernel - A common interface for the agent to deal with various language runtimes
- Package namespace:
- https://github.com/lablup/backend.ai-kernels
- Runtime-specific recipes to build the Docker images (Dockerfile)
A programmable sandbox implemented using ptrace-based sytem call filtering written in Go.
A set of libc overrides for resource control and web-based interactive stdin (paired with agents).
A collection of utility modules commonly shared throughout Backend.AI projects.
- Package namespaces:
ai.backend.common - https://github.com/lablup/backend.ai-common
We offer client SDKs in popular programming languages. These SDKs are freely available with MIT License to ease integration with both commercial and non-commercial software products and services.
- Python (provides the command-line interface)
pip install backend.ai-client- https://github.com/lablup/backend.ai-client-py
- Java
- Currently only available via GitHub releases
- https://github.com/lablup/backend.ai-client-java
- Javascript
npm install backend.ai-client- https://github.com/lablup/backend.ai-client-js
- PHP (under preparation)
composer require lablup/backend.ai-client- https://github.com/lablup/backend.ai-client-php
The front-end support libraries to handle multi-media outputs (e.g., SVG plots, animated vector graphics)
- The Python package (
lablup) is installed inside kernel containers. - To interpret and display media generated by the Python package, you need to load the Javascript part in the front-end.
- https://github.com/lablup/backend.ai-media
- Jupyter Kernel: data scientists' favorite tool
- Package namespaces:
backend.ai-integration-jupyter - https://github.com/lablup/backend.ai-integration-jupyter
- Package namespaces:
- Visual Studio Code Extension
- Search “Live Code Runner” among VSCode extensions.
- https://github.com/lablup/vscode-live-code-runner
- Atom Editor plugin
- Search “Live Code Runner” among Atom plugins.
- https://github.com/lablup/atom-live-code-runner
- IntelliJ / PyCharm plugin
- Coming soon!
Refer to LICENSE file.