Syndeo: Portable Ray Clusters with Secure Containerization

TL;DR

Syndeo is a flexible framework enabling portable, scalable, and secure deployment of Ray clusters across various cloud platforms and high-performance computing environments using containerization and unprivileged profiles.

Contribution

It introduces Syndeo, a novel framework that enhances Ray's portability, scalability, and security for parallel computing on diverse cloud and HPC systems.

Findings

Successfully deployed Ray on multiple cloud providers.

Achieved high-throughput multi-node performance.

Enhanced security with unprivileged user profiles.

Abstract

We present Syndeo: a software framework for container orchestration of Ray on Slurm. In general the idea behind Syndeo is to write code once and deploy anywhere. Specifically, Syndeo is designed to addresses the issues of portability, scalability, and security for parallel computing. The design is portable because the containerized Ray code can be re-deployed on Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, or Alibaba Cloud. The process is scalable because we optimize for multi-node, high-throughput computing. The process is secure because users are forced to operate with unprivileged profiles meaning administrators control the access permissions. We demonstrate Syndeo's portable, scalable, and secure design by deploying containerized parallel workflows on Slurm for which Ray does not officially support.