Dynamic Agents OverviewΒΆ
When running Determined with Dynamic Agents, the Determined master dynamically provisions and terminates cloud instances to meet the needs of the cluster.
Provisioning new Determined agents is quick: we make API calls to the cloud provider to provision new instances within a few seconds of new tasks arriving. Within a few minutes new instances will have registered themselves with the Determined master and start running tasks.
When Determined agents become idle, we give them a five minute grace period before terminating the instances. This grace period provides for a short interval of time for the Determined agent instance to receive new tasks.