Robby Ulung Pambudi, Ary Mazharuddin Shiddiqi, Royyana Muslim Ijtihadie, Muhammad Nabil Akhtar Raya Amoriza, Hardy Tee, Fadhl Akmal Madany, Rizky Januar Akbar, Dini Adni Navastara
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Abstract
The increasing demand for scalable and responsive Large Language Model (LLM) applications has accelerated the need for distributed inference systems capable of handling high concurrency and heterogeneous GPU resources. This paper introduces DiLLeMa, an extensible framework for distributed LLM deployment on multi-GPU clusters, designed to improve inference efficiency through workload parallelization and adaptive resource management. Built upon the Ray distributed computing framework, DiLLeMa orchestrates LLM inference across multiple nodes while maintaining balanced GPU utilization and low-latency response. The system integrates a FastAPI-based backend for coordination and API management, a React-based frontend for interactive access, and a vLLM inference engine optimized for high-throughput execution. Complementary modules for data preprocessing, semantic embedding, and vector-based retrieval further enhance contextual relevance during response generation. Illustrative examples demonstrate that DiLLeMa effectively reduces inference latency and scales efficiently.
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SoftwareX aims to acknowledge the impact of software on today''s research practice, and on new scientific discoveries in almost all research domains. SoftwareX also aims to stress the importance of the software developers who are, in part, responsible for this impact. To this end, SoftwareX aims to support publication of research software in such a way that: The software is given a stamp of scientific relevance, and provided with a peer-reviewed recognition of scientific impact; The software developers are given the credits they deserve; The software is citable, allowing traditional metrics of scientific excellence to apply; The academic career paths of software developers are supported rather than hindered; The software is publicly available for inspection, validation, and re-use. Above all, SoftwareX aims to inform researchers about software applications, tools and libraries with a (proven) potential to impact the process of scientific discovery in various domains. The journal is multidisciplinary and accepts submissions from within and across subject domains such as those represented within the broad thematic areas below: Mathematical and Physical Sciences; Environmental Sciences; Medical and Biological Sciences; Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. Originating from these broad thematic areas, the journal also welcomes submissions of software that works in cross cutting thematic areas, such as citizen science, cybersecurity, digital economy, energy, global resource stewardship, health and wellbeing, etcetera. SoftwareX specifically aims to accept submissions representing domain-independent software that may impact more than one research domain.