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Ray: Scale AI Workloads with 44k+ GitHub Stars

Accelerate your ML training and inference across clusters with Ray’s distributed runtime and AI libraries—perfect for founders building data‑intensive, scalable AI products.

From the repo · “Ray is an AI compute engine. Ray consists of a core distributed runtime and a set of AI Libraries for accelerating ML workloads.”

44,102 stars+73★ this week8,185 forksPythonGuide quality 9/10 · reviewed Sep 29Install verified Sep 21Updated 10/22/2026100% free · open source
What it does

Ray accelerates machine learning workloads by providing a distributed compute engine for scalable AI applications

When to use it
  • •You need to scale your ML model training across multiple machines
  • •You want to accelerate your AI workflows with a high-performance compute engine
  • •You're building a real-time AI application that requires low-latency processing
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ray.init(); @ray.remote; def train_model(data): # your model training code here; train_model.remote([1, 2, 3])
Heads up: Make sure you have the correct version of Python installed, as Ray supports Python 3.7, 3.8, and 3.9, but not Python 3.6 or earlier
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Ray: Scale AI Workloads with 44k+ GitHub Stars is a very large Python project (~968k lines across 4640 code files, plus 1888 test files). Setup is light: installs like a normal app. Reading the code is optional. Last commit this month, Apache-2.0 license, has a test suite.

Size
Very large codebase
~968k lines · 4640 code files · days to read — use, don't read
Setup
One-command install
Installs like a normal app. Reading the code is optional.
Runs on
Python
No API keys detected
Python 77%C++ 17%Java 2%Starlark 1%TypeScript 1%
Where to start reading
  1. 1
    README.rst
    Start here — what it does and how to install it
  2. 2
    AGENTS.md
    The instructions the AI actually follows
  3. 3
    pyproject.toml
    Dependencies and the commands it exposes
  4. 4
    src/ray/pubsub/README.md
    Inside src/ — the main logic begins here
What's in each folder
src/Core code — the actual logic1014 files
doc/Documentation1683 files
python/Folder3758 files
rllib/Folder1599 files
release/Folder1235 files
java/Folder387 files
ci/Folder314 files
cpp/Folder83 files
READMEHas testsDocumentedCI checksApache-2.0 licenseUpdated this month
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Creator
ray-project
Language
Python
Category
ai-agent
Published
10/25/2016

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