About Modal
Modal is a commercial serverless cloud platform aimed at running Python code. Developers define functions and workloads in code, and Modal runs them on demand in the cloud, including jobs that need GPUs and large batch processing tasks.
Modal is a proprietary, vendor-hosted service with no self-hosted edition, and it is commonly associated with machine learning and data workloads. Specifics such as supported hardware, pricing and limits are listed on the vendor's site.
Key features
- Runs Python functions on demand in the cloud
- Supports GPU workloads
- Batch job execution at scale
- No servers to manage
Good fit for
- →Running ML inference on GPUs
- →Batch data processing jobs
- Tags
- serverless
- python
- gpu
- batch-jobs
- machine-learning
- cloud
- functions
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