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Keep your code as you scale
Run the same Python from first experiment to enterprise scale, well beyond the limits of a single notebook or machine.
How it works
What is Elastic Python Compute?
Elastic Python Compute is how Teradata AI Studio runs your Python code. Smaller jobs run in a single container. Bigger jobs spread across a Ray cluster, a group of machines that work on the task at the same time. It’s built into AI Studio, so there’s nothing separate to buy or set up.
Benefits
Scale Python without starting over
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Match compute to each job
Run light jobs in a single container. Spread heavy ones across Ray clusters. Choose CPU or GPU for each workload.
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Work where your data lives
Keep development connected to governed enterprise data and AI Studio services, so you move faster without opening security or governance gaps.
Overview
Python execution built for production AI
Use the Python libraries you already know. AI Studio handles the runtime, scaling, and data access.
Elastic Python Compute is the Python execution layer in Teradata AI Studio. Pick the model that fits each workload: a single container for lighter tasks, or a distributed Ray cluster for larger, parallel work.
Read enterprise data, run your code, and save models, results, and job outputs for the applications and analytics that depend on them.
Workflow
4 steps from notebook to scale
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Configure
Start in an AI Studio notebook or the Python SDK. Set data access, packages, memory, workers, and CPU or GPU requirements.
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Provision
The platform launches a single container or a Ray cluster, based on your workload design.
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Run
Your code reads and writes data through supported connections and runs tasks across the compute you selected.
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Save
Model artifacts, results, and job outputs persist for downstream AI Studio and enterprise workflows.
Core capabilities
Compute that adapts to the workload
Single-container execution
Prototype, explore data, and run smaller training jobs without cluster overhead.
Distributed execution with Ray
Parallelize large-scale machine learning, batch inference, tuning, and multimodal pipelines across Ray workers.
Elastic scaling
Set minimum and maximum nodes, and let Ray clusters scale within those limits as demand changes.
CPU and GPU flexibility
Use general-purpose compute for analytics and accelerated compute for machine learning, computer vision, language, and graph workloads.
Open Python ecosystem
Use familiar open-source libraries and frameworks in containerized environments built for custom analytics.
High-performance data access
Read and write in parallel between Ray compute and enterprise data, using Arrow Flight servers and Teradata connectivity.
Workload isolation
Run on dedicated clusters or node pools to keep compute-intensive jobs from slowing other platform activity.
Ray cluster autoscaling
Automatically adds workers as workload demand increases and removes idle workers as demand falls, within configured minimum and maximum limits.
Batch workload submission through Ray jobs
Enables teams to submit, monitor, and retrieve logs for Python workloads through APIs, without keeping an interactive notebook session open.
Use cases
Put scalable Python to work
Start with the execution pattern that fits today’s workload. Move to distributed CPU or GPU compute when data volume, model size, or concurrency grows.
Machine learning training and scoring
Train, tune, and score models in a single container or across a Ray cluster, depending on workload size.
Language model and batch inference
Run summarization, translation, sentiment analysis, and other text processing in parallel, using the models and libraries your team chooses.
Multimodal and video intelligence
Distribute OCR, transcription, sound-event detection, object detection, image classification, and annotation across workers. Write structured and semi-structured results to Teradata.
Graph analytics and advanced data science
Run large-scale network, relationship, clustering, and partitioning analysis on distributed CPU or GPU compute.
Elastic Python Compute FAQs
What is Elastic Python Compute?
What is Elastic Python Compute?
It’s the managed Python execution capability in Teradata AI Studio. It provides containerized Python runtimes, single-container execution, and distributed execution on Ray clusters. It isn’t a standalone product.
When should I use a single container, and when should I use a Ray cluster?
When should I use a single container, and when should I use a Ray cluster?
Use a single container for prototyping, ad hoc analysis, and smaller training jobs. Use a Ray cluster when work benefits from parallel processing, such as larger machine learning jobs, batch inference, tuning, multimodal pipelines, and CPU- or GPU-intensive workloads.
Does it support CPU and GPU?
Does it support CPU and GPU?
Yes. Choose CPU or GPU node pools to match each workload. GPU is supported only on Teradata Factory.
How does it access my data?
How does it access my data?
It connects to Teradata and supported enterprise data sources through platform connections, with parallel reads and writes using Arrow Flight servers.
Can I use open-source Python libraries?
Can I use open-source Python libraries?
Yes. It’s designed for native Python workloads and familiar open-source libraries.
How does it help me move from experiment to production?
How does it help me move from experiment to production?
You follow one repeatable workflow: configure compute, provision the runtime, run your code, and save outputs for downstream AI Studio processes. The code stays the same at every scale.
What workloads are a good fit?
What workloads are a good fit?
Machine and deep learning training and scoring, language model batch inference, graph analytics, advanced data science, and multimodal video-processing pipelines.
What role does Ray play?
What role does Ray play?
Ray is the distributed execution layer. It spreads Python work across workers and CPU or GPU resources for larger, parallel workloads.
Take Python from notebook to production
See how Teradata AI Studio runs your Python AI and analytics workloads at scale, on governed enterprise data.