Launch jobs

W&B Launch is in Public Preview and in active development.

Before you get started, enable the W&B Launch UI:

1. Navigate to https://wandb.ai/settings.
2. Scroll down to the Beta Features section and enable W&B Launch.

What is Launch?

W&B Launch is a toolkit for building collaborative, portable, and reproducible machine learning workflows.

Launch workflows can be managed from the W&B CLI, UI, or SDK.

How it works

Launch workflows are powered by three fundamental compoenents: jobs, queues, and agents.

• Jobs are blueprints for configuring and running the tasks in your ML workflow. A job is actually an Artifact that is created automatically when you track a run with W&B. Each job contains contextual information about the run it is being created from, including the source code, entrypoint, software dependencies, hyperparameters, dataset version, etc.

• Launch queues are first-in, first-out (FIFO) queues where users can configure and submit their jobs to a particular compute resource. Each item in a launch queue consists of a job and settings for the parameters of that job.

• Launch agents are long-running processes that poll on one or more launch queues for jobs to run. The agent is capable of building container images to replicate the original environment of the job. The agent can then take the image it has built (or a pre-made image) and execute it on the system targeted by the queue this job was taken from.

How to get started

Depending on your use case, explore the following resources to get started with Weights & Biases Launch:

• If this is your first time using W&B Launch, we recommend you go through the Getting started guide.
• Explore topics about W&B Launch in this Developer Guide, such as:
  • Prerequisites
  • Create a job
  • Add jobs to your queue
  • Launch jobs
• Discover the wandb launch and wandb launch-agent commands in the CLI Reference.

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Talk to the W&B Sales Team to get W&B Launch set up for your business: https://wandb.ai/site/pricing.