Ion Stoica
Ion Stoica is a professor of computer science at UC Berkeley and the co-founder and Executive Chairman of Databricks. He is best known for co-creating Apache Spark and his influential work on distributed systems, including the Chord peer-to-peer lookup service and the Ray framework for scaling AI workloads. He also co-founded Conviva and serves as Executive Chairman at Anyscale.
“vLLM is an inference engine. That means its job is to turn available GPUs into a running endpoint for intelligence... we support more than a thousand model architectures up to today.”
Source→“Yang as a co-founder, he has always been thinking about open source and where how do you support open source better. And then now with experience from Databricks and AnyScale and even Arena...”
Source→“Spark needed Databricks' support. The vLLM project has already reached the scale of the previous projects; its historical significance is already very clear.”
Source→“Ion Stoica (Yang Stoica) — UC Berkeley professor, co-founder of Databricks, founder of the RISELab/SkyLab lineage, vLLM advisor and co-founder of Infract.”
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