* Enable remote function and actor definitions to close over actor definitions.
* Give better error message if actor objects are pickled.
* Add tests for closing over actor definitions.
* Fix linting.
* Direction substitution of @ray.remote -> @ray.task.
* Changes to make '@ray.task' work.
* Instantiate actors with Class.remote() instead of Class().
* Convert actor instantiation in tests and examples from Class() to Class.remote().
* Change actor method invocation from object.method() to object.method.remote().
* Update tests and examples to invoke actor methods with .remote().
* Fix bugs in jenkins tests.
* Fix example applications.
* Change @ray.task back to @ray.remote.
* Changes to make @ray.actor -> @ray.remote work.
* Direct substitution of @ray.actor -> @ray.remote.
* Fixes.
* Raise exception if @ray.actor decorator is used.
* Simplify ActorMethod class.
* Make note about bug in which actor creation notification message is not received.
* Prevent actors from being created on removed nodes.
* Prevent actors from being created on nodes with no CPUs.
* Fix linting.
* Add test for scheduling actors on local schedulers with no CPUs.
* Improve error message when actors created before ray.init called.
* Change local scheduler bookkeeping to use GPU IDs.
* Update actor test.
* Add tests for actors and tasks simultaneously using GPUs.
* Add additional task GPU ID test.
* Fix linting.
* Make redis GPU assignment ignore GPU IDs.
* Small fix.
* Clean up state when drivers exit.
* Remove unnecessary field in ActorMapEntry struct.
* Have monitor release GPU resources in Redis when driver exits.
* Enable multiple drivers in multi-node tests and test driver cleanup.
* Make redis GPU allocation a redis transaction and small cleanups.
* Fix multi-node test.
* Small cleanups.
* Make global scheduler take node_ip_address so it appears in the right place in the client table.
* Cleanups.
* Fix linting and cleanups in local scheduler.
* Fix removed_driver_test.
* Fix bug related to vector -> list.
* Fix linting.
* Cleanup.
* Fix multi node tests.
* Fix jenkins tests.
* Add another multi node test with many drivers.
* Fix linting.
* Make the actor creation notification a flatbuffer message.
* Revert "Make the actor creation notification a flatbuffer message."
This reverts commit af99099c8084dbf9177fb4e34c0c9b1a12c78f39.
* Add comment explaining flatbuffer problems.
* Add num_cpus and num_gpus to actor decorator.
* Assign GPU IDs to actors.
* Add additional actor test.
* Remove duplicated line.
* Factor out local scheduler selection method.
* Add test and simplify local scheduler selection.
* Remove import counter and export counter.
* Provide isolation between drivers for remote functions.
* Add test for driver function isolation.
* Hash source code into function ID to reduce likelihood of collisions.
* Fix failure test example.
* Replace assertTrue with assertIn to improve failure messages in tests.
* Fix failure test.
* Implement actor field for tasks
* Implement actor management in local scheduler.
* initial python frontend for actors
* import actors on worker
* IPython code completion and tests
* prepare creating actors through local schedulers
* add actor id to PyTask
* submit actor calls to local scheduler
* starting to integrate
* simple fix
* Fixes from rebasing.
* more work on python actors
* Improve local scheduler actor handlers.
* Pass actor ID to local scheduler when connecting a client.
* first working version of actors
* fixing actors
* fix creating two copies of the same actor
* fix actors
* remove sleep
* get rid of export synchronization
* update
* insert actor methods into the queue in the right order
* remove print statements
* make it compile again after rebase
* Minor updates.
* fix python actor ids
* Pass actor_id to start_worker.
* add test
* Minor changes.
* Update actor tests.
* Temporary plan for import counter.
* Temporarily fix import counters.
* Fix some tests.
* Fixes.
* Make actor creation non-blocking.
* Fix test?
* Fix actors on Python 2.
* fix rare case.
* Fix python 2 test.
* More tests.
* Small fixes.
* Linting.
* Revert tensorflow version to 0.12.0 temporarily.
* Small fix.
* Enhance inheritance test.
Robert Nishihara