deepspeedai / deepspeedai/DeepSpeed

[REQUEST] Model serving via deepspeed's inference module

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Description

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
No

Describe the solution you'd like
I am trying to run my model serving code in a model-parallel fashion. The tutorial shows how to run code on multi-GPU but the data is predefined, which cannot be used for serving. My original code is using fastapi to do the serving work. When using deepspeed --num_gpus n example.py the fastapi server will also be initiated n times, which cause port conflict.

Describe alternatives you've considered
Do I have to first start the model in parallel using deepspeed in one script and then start another script for fastapi, and finally connect them somehow?

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Research direction

Start with the multi-GPU tutorial and the model-serving code using FastAPI mentioned in the issue. Determine the intended DeepSpeed inference entry point and how server initialization should work without port conflicts across processes. Done should mean a documented or supported model-serving approach for this setup.

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Assessment

Tech stack
fastapi, python
Domain
api, backend, machine-learning
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
18/100

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