[GitHub] [beam] pcoet commented on a change in pull request #15499: [BEAM-12876] Adding doc and glossary entry for resource hints

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pcoet commented on a change in pull request #15499:
URL: https://github.com/apache/beam/pull/15499#discussion_r708614896



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+title: "Resource hints"
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+# Resource hints
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+Resource hints let pipeline authors provide information to a runner about compute resource requirements. You can use resource hints to define requirements for specific transforms or for an entire pipeline. The runner is responsible for interpreting resource hints, and runners can ignore unsupported hints.
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+Resource hints can be nested. For example, resource hints can be specified on subtransforms of a composite transform, and that composite transform can also have resource hints applied. By default, the innermost hint takes precedence. However, hints can define custom reconciliation behavior. For example,  `min_ram` takes the maximum value for all `min_ram` values set on a given step in the pipeline.
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+{{< language-switcher java py >}}
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+## Available hints
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+Currently, Beam supports the following resource hints:
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+* `min_ram="numberXB"`: The minimum amount of RAM to allocate to workers. Beam can parse various byte units, including MB, GB, MiB, and GiB (for example, `min_ram="4GB"`). This hint is intended to provide advisory minimal memory requirements for processing a transform.
+* `accelerator="hint"`: This hint is intended to describe a hardware accelerator to use for processing a transform. For example, the following is valid accelerator syntax for the Dataflow runner: `accelerator="type:<type>;count:<n>;<options>"`
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+The syntax of resource hints can vary between runners. For an example implementation, see the [Dataflow resource hints](https://cloud.google.com/dataflow/docs/guides/right-fitting#available_resource_hints).

Review comment:
       Done.




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