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[FEATURE] Add parallel execution and distributed evaluation capabilities #14

@najeed

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@najeed

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Running evaluations on 4500+ scenarios sequentially is time-prohibitive. Users need parallel execution to complete comprehensive evaluations in reasonable timeframes, especially for enterprise use cases.

Describe the solution you'd like
Parallel and distributed evaluation system with:

  1. Local Parallel Execution

    • Multi-threaded scenario processing
    • Configurable worker count
    • Resource usage monitoring
    • Progress tracking across threads
  2. Distributed Evaluation

    • Worker node coordination
    • Load balancing across nodes
    • Fault tolerance and recovery
    • Result aggregation
  3. Cloud Integration

    • Docker container support
    • Kubernetes deployment templates
    • AWS/GCP/Azure batch processing
    • Serverless evaluation options

Proposed API

# Local parallel execution
runner = EvaluationRunner(parallel=True, workers=8)
results = runner.evaluate_batch(scenarios, agent)

# Distributed execution
cluster = EvaluationCluster(nodes=["worker1", "worker2", "worker3"])
results = cluster.evaluate(scenarios, agent)

# Cloud execution
cloud_runner = CloudEvaluationRunner(provider="aws", instance_type="c5.xlarge")
results = cloud_runner.evaluate(scenarios, agent)

Acceptance Criteria

  • Multi-threaded local execution with configurable workers
  • Progress tracking and resource monitoring
  • Distributed execution coordinator
  • Docker containerization for workers
  • Cloud deployment templates (AWS/GCP/Azure)
  • Fault tolerance and automatic recovery
  • Result aggregation and consistency validation

Performance Targets

  • 10x speedup with 8-core local execution
  • Linear scaling with distributed workers
  • <5% overhead for coordination
  • 99.9% result consistency between serial and parallel runs

Additional context
Essential for enterprise users who need to run comprehensive evaluations regularly. Similar to capabilities in EleutherAI/lm-evaluation-harness but optimized for agent evaluation patterns.

Estimated Effort

  • Large (2+ weeks)

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