Interesting Framework. Seems to hail from : > https://rise.cs.berkeley.edu/ Quite the bee-line from the authors' previous papers. It only seems to have been preceded by : https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.03924 However, the language in the [Ray] paper is completely different. Different from the preceding paper but familiarly distinct. Any specification of outside groups/companies/individuals who were consulted/collaborated with on this project? And who more or less lead the development and design? Maybe I am jumping the gun, but it clearly wasn't of the listed names.

Of all of the authors listed, none of their previous papers read like the Ray paper nor does the proposal paper (Real-Time Machine Learning : The missing pieces). http://arxiv.org/abs/1703.03924 reads like a corporate/industry grade requirements/proposal doc which is a huge departure from all of the author's prior papers... So, out of the blue, corporate level infrastructure project proposal and completion within the span of a year?

Can any of the paper's authors speak more clearly on who led this project over what span of time, under what direction, and with which industry groups? I see no background or papers from the individuals priority listed in the paper reflective of the sort that creates a formalized and industry grade Distributed Computational Framework such as this. > Robert Nishihara > Philipp Moritz Are priority listed yet have no prior papers leading to such a development. To what degree did : https://rise.cs.berkeley.edu/sponsors/ Drive this?