Horovod vs Tarantella
Horovod
horovod.aiTarantella
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| Figure | Horovod | Tarantella |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 0 |
| Spec score · Deep Learning Software | 8.1 (#11) | 6.9 (#30) |
| Installation | The getting-started page provides pip installation commands for CPU use and GPU use with NCCL. | The installation guide says Tarantella must be built from source and requires TensorFlow, GaspiCxx, GPI-2, and pybind11. |
| Performance | Tensor Fusion batches small allreduce operations and interleaves communication with computation. | The site reports speedups of up to 50x on GPU and CPU clusters using data parallelism. |
| Purpose | Horovod is a distributed deep learning training framework for TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch and Apache MXNet. | Tarantella is an open-source distributed deep learning framework designed to speed up neural network training. |
| Requirements | The project README says Linux or macOS installation requires CMake and describes compiler requirements for supported frameworks. | The guide specifies at least Python 3.7, TensorFlow 2.4 or later, and a recent GCC compiler with C++17 support. |
| Security | The documentation includes a security section for Horovod on Spark; the opened pages make no security certification or compliance claim. | The installation guide requires passwordless SSH between cluster nodes to run Tarantella programs. |
| Support | The project directs users to documentation, troubleshooting guidance and a ticket submission link for unresolved issues. | The documentation directs users to bug reports, feature requests, tutorials, and technical documentation for help and community participation. |
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