The updates to Modal's Runtime also introduce VM sandboxes, sandbox sidecars, and sticky sessions to improve workload isolation and request routing. These tools enable high-performance distributed computing by providing developers with more control over how compute nodes are instantiated and managed.
Wednesday, October 21, 2026
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Modal Launches Multi Node Clusters for 1T Parameter Models
AI19 days ago
Developers of artificial intelligence can now deploy and scale their workloads using an expanded set of infrastructure tools on the Modal platform. The general availability of multi-node clusters allows for the training of models with as many as 1T parameters, a scale already achieved by user Decagon. These clusters provide RDMA-connected nodes that are accessible instantly through a single decorator using the rdma=True configuration.
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