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(serve-resource-allocation)=
# Resource Allocation
This guide helps you configure Ray Serve to:
- Scale your deployments horizontally by specifying a number of replicas
- Scale up and down automatically to react to changing traffic
- Allocate hardware resources (CPUs, GPUs, other accelerators, etc) for each deployment
(serve-cpus-gpus)=
## Resource management (CPUs, GPUs, accelerators)
You may want to specify a deployment's resource requirements to reserve cluster resources like GPUs or other accelerators. To assign hardware resources per replica, you can pass resource requirements to `ray_actor_options`. By default, each replica reserves one CPU. To learn about options to pass in, take a look at the [Resources with Actors guide](actor-resource-guide).
For example, to create a deployment where each replica uses a single GPU, you can do the following:
```python
@serve.deployment(ray_actor_options={"num_gpus": 1})
def func(*args):
return do_something_with_my_gpu()
```
Or if you want to create a deployment where each replica uses another type of accelerator such as an HPU, follow the example below:
```python
@serve.deployment(ray_actor_options={"resources": {"HPU": 1}})
def func(*args):
return do_something_with_my_hpu()
```
(serve-fractional-resources-guide)=
### Fractional CPUs and fractional GPUs
To do this, the resources specified in `ray_actor_options` can be *fractional*. For example, if you have two models and each doesn't fully saturate a GPU, you might want to have them share a GPU by allocating 0.5 GPUs each.
```python
@serve.deployment(ray_actor_options={"num_gpus": 0.5})
def func_1(*args):
return do_something_with_my_gpu()
@serve.deployment(ray_actor_options={"num_gpus": 0.5})
def func_2(*args):
return do_something_with_my_gpu()
```
In this example, each replica of each deployment will be allocated 0.5 GPUs. The same can be done to multiplex over CPUs, using `"num_cpus"`.
### Custom resources, accelerator types, and more
You can also specify {ref}`custom resources <cluster-resources>` in `ray_actor_options`, for example to ensure that a deployment is scheduled on a specific node. For example, if you have a deployment that requires 2 units of the `"custom_resource"` resource, you can specify it like this:
```python
@serve.deployment(ray_actor_options={"resources": {"custom_resource": 2}})
def func(*args):
return do_something_with_my_custom_resource()
```
You can also specify {ref}`accelerator types <accelerator-types>` via the `accelerator_type` parameter in `ray_actor_options`.
Below is the full list of supported options in `ray_actor_options`; please see the relevant Ray Core documentation for more details about each option:
- `accelerator_type`
- `memory`
- `num_cpus`
- `num_gpus`
- `object_store_memory`
- `resources`
- `runtime_env`
(serve-omp-num-threads)=
## Configuring parallelism with OMP_NUM_THREADS
Deep learning models like PyTorch and Tensorflow often use multithreading when performing inference. The number of CPUs they use is controlled by the `OMP_NUM_THREADS` environment variable. Ray sets `OMP_NUM_THREADS=<num_cpus>` by default. To [avoid contention](omp-num-thread-note), Ray sets `OMP_NUM_THREADS=1` if `num_cpus` is not specified on the tasks/actors, to reduce contention between actors/tasks which run in a single thread. If you *do* want to enable this parallelism in your Serve deployment, just set `num_cpus` (recommended) to the desired value, or manually set the `OMP_NUM_THREADS` environment variable when starting Ray or in your function/class definition.
```bash
OMP_NUM_THREADS=12 ray start --head
OMP_NUM_THREADS=12 ray start --address=$HEAD_NODE_ADDRESS
```
```{literalinclude} doc_code/managing_deployments.py
:start-after: __configure_parallism_start__
:end-before: __configure_parallism_end__
:language: python
```
:::{note}
Some other libraries may not respect `OMP_NUM_THREADS` and have their own way to configure parallelism. For example, if you're using OpenCV, you'll need to manually set the number of threads using `cv2.setNumThreads(num_threads)` (set to 0 to disable multi-threading). You can check the configuration using `cv2.getNumThreads()` and `cv2.getNumberOfCPUs()`.
:::