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§ironaccelerator-neuron
AWS Neuron backend — covers Trainium (trn1 / trn2) and
Inferentia (inf1 / inf2). The Neuron Runtime exposes a C API
through libnrt.so; we dynamically load it and call nrt_init +
nrt_get_total_nc_count for device enumeration. NeuronCores are the
scheduling unit Neuron exposes, so each NeuronCore becomes one
DeviceDescriptor.
Instance family is read from AWS metadata-style env hints where
available (NEURON_RT_VISIBLE_CORES, AWS_NEURON_VISIBLE_CORES,
instance-type file under /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/product_name
when root is reachable); generation is inferred from the runtime
version string.
Re-exports§
pub use backend::NeuronBackend;pub use backend::NEURON_BACKEND;
Modules§
- backend
- AWS Neuron
Backendimpl. One descriptor per NeuronCore. - drv
libnrtloader. We need three symbols —nrt_init,nrt_get_total_nc_count, andnrt_get_version— and a best-effort read of the Neuron-specific env vars that AWS containers set.- runtime
- Thin wrappers over
nrt_load/nrt_execute. The AWS Neuron Runtime takes a NEFF binary (produced by the Neuron compiler) plus two tensor sets (inputs + outputs) and runs it on one or more NeuronCores. We don’t ship the compiler — we expect the caller to have a.neffalready.