Triton Inference Server is a high-performance server designed to deploy machine learning models from multiple frameworks across GPUs and CPUs. It functions as a hardware-accelerated inference engine and a gRPC inference gateway, providing a standardized communication layer for transmitting binary tensor data with low latency.
The system acts as a multi-framework model orchestrator, allowing users to link multiple AI models into ensembles and scripts to create complex inference pipelines. It also serves as a model lifecycle manager, providing controls to load, unload, and monitor the performance of models in production environments.
Throughput is optimized via dynamic batching, concurrent model execution, and stateful sequence batching. The server supports extensibility through custom inference backends implemented in C++ or Python and utilizes shared memory communication to reduce data copying overhead.
Observability is provided through performance monitoring of hardware utilization, request throughput, and response latency.