Run inference over millions of records — free of SQL, and without your data ever leaving Snowflake. Here's distributed batch inference at scale ⚙️ Title: Batch Inference at Scale URL: ⚙️ Overview A capability that runs distributed inference workloads on Snowpark Container Services (SPCS) with Ray as the execution framework. Inference runs as a dedicated distributed workload, supporting both traditional models and LLMs, consolidating complex operations into a single API call. ❓ Challenges Solved Many customers, especially those migrating from non-SQL systems, need batch inference decoupled from SQL. ・This is especially true for files and unstructured data at large scale ・Rearchitecting workflows around SQL-first patterns is a heavy burden 💡 Methodology & How It Works ・The input DataFrame is materialized and written to a stage as Parquet files ・A job is provisioned on SPCS; the primary node initializes as the Ray head and replicas join as workers ・Each worker reads staged data, performs inference independently, and writes results to an output stage ・Unified API: a single run_batch() call handles both structured and unstructured data ・Multimodal support (images, audio, video); workers load weights once and reuse across batches; JobSpec controls workers and GPU allocation 🌍 Use Cases ・Nightly summarization of millions of support tickets ・Product catalog enrichment via image-to-text generation ・Information extraction from scanned PDFs, audio transcription and labeling, video classification and description BatchInferenceTask integrates with Snowflake Tasks for DAG automation, and all processing stays inside Snowflake — running large-scale inference while preserving data governance. #Snowflake# #BatchInference#