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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 + replay

Primitive 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_token

Why It Matters

Inference becomes constrained by:

  • hardware
  • concurrency
  • latency

Why Forge

Forge treats inference as:

  • distributed workload
  • replayable execution
  • composable system component