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Distributed AI Inference
Inference is not always a single-node operation.
At scale, it becomes a distributed execution problem.
The Pattern
Distributed inference decomposes model execution into parallel workloads.
Execution Shape
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input data
↓
adapter (model routing)
↓
distributed inference shards
↓
aggregation
↓
artifacts + replayPrimitive Composition
- distributed compute execution
- deterministic aggregation
What Gets Computed
- model outputs
- latency distribution
- execution trace
- capacity signals
Output Artifacts
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inference_output
latency_profile
execution_trace
aggregation_metadata
capacity_signal
replay_tokenWhy It Matters
Inference becomes constrained by:
- hardware
- concurrency
- latency
Why Forge
Forge treats inference as:
- distributed workload
- replayable execution
- composable system component
