Dear Alluxio Community,
Welcome to our newsletter! We've packed this edition with valuable insights, upcoming events, and on-demand content to keep you at the forefront of AI.
🚀 Announcing Alluxio Enterprise AI 3.6
Our latest Alluxio AI release delivers powerful new features and significant enhancements to accelerate your AI workflows, including:
- Accelerated cold starts for inference
- Pushdown-based parquet query acceleration
- Faster checkpoint writes with ASYNC write mode
- New features for Alluxio admins, including management console, multi-tenancy support, multi-availability zone failover support, and virtual path support in FUSE
Learn more about what’s new in Alluxio AI:
- Product Blog: New Features in Alluxio Enterprise AI 3.6
- ITBrief US: Alluxio 3.6 improves AI model distribution & checkpoint speed
- IT Nerd: Alluxio Enterprise AI 3.6 Accelerates Model Distribution, Optimizes Model Training Checkpoint Writing, and Enhanced Multi-Tenancy Support
- Datanami: Alluxio Expands AI Platform with Faster Checkpointing and Multi-Tenant Support
📖 Good Reads
Dive into these inspiring articles and white papers from the Alluxio team and beyond:
Technical White Paper
Read this technical whitepaper co-authored by Salesforce & Alluxio engineers to learn more about our new pushdown-based parquet query feature now available in Alluxio Enterprise AI 3.6!
This new Alluxio feature achieves sub-millisecond Time-to-First-Byte (TTFB) comparable to S3 Express One Zone but at a fraction of the cost and without scalability limits
Technical White Paper
Optimizing I/O for AI Workloads in Geo-Distributed GPU Clusters
New whitepaper on optimizing I/O in geo-distributed GPU clusters is here!
This insightful whitepaper reveals common causes of slow AI workloads and low GPU utilization, how to diagnose the root cause, and offer solutions to maximize performance of your underutilized GPUs.
🗓️ Upcoming Events
Mark your calendar for our exciting upcoming events!
Webinar: Meet You in the Middle - 1000x Performance for Parquet Queries on PB-Scale Data Lakes | June 10, 2025 @ 11:00am PT
In this webinar, David Zhu, Software Engineering Manager at Alluxio, will present the results of research into the benefits of leveraging Alluxio as a high-performance caching and acceleration layer atop AWS S3 for ultra-fast querying of PB-scale Parquet files.
AI/ML Infra Meetup in Sunnyvale, CA & Virtual | ft. Meta, Inferless, DDN, and Alluxio | Jun 17, 2025 @ 4:30 PM PT
Join us for an insightful evening of AI Infra talks in Sunnyvale, CA or virtually via our Zoom livestream. AI Experts from Meta, Inferless, DDN & Alluxio will be sharing their experiences and insights on designing and implementing AI infrastructure at scale. Topics will cover LLM serving and inferencing, AI storage, distributed caching, building ranking products using LLMs, and more.
CTC Discover Data & AI Infra. 2025 in Tokyo | Data Orchestration for AI: Enabling Fast and Unified Data Access Across Hybrid Clouds | June 12, 2025 12:30 PM JST
Organized by ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation, this seminar will introduce the latest trends for AI infrastructure, as well as practical tips for Japanese companies to enhance their competitiveness. Bin Fan @ Alluxio will introduce how Alluxio's data orchestration technology brings consistency and speed to data scattered across clouds and on-premises.
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2025
Optimizing Data Locality and GPU Utilization for Training Workloads in Kubernetes | June 16, 2025 4:30 PM JS
Are you attending KubeCon in Tokyo, Japan on June 16? Join Bin Fan @ Alluxio as he introduces a Kubernetes-native distributed caching system that utilizes NVMe storage to address data locality challenges. Discover real-world, large-scale production use cases
demonstrating how this architecture reduces data infrastructure costs, enhances GPU utilization, and facilitates workload portability to tackle GPU scarcity challenges.
🎥 Recent Tech Talks
Couldn't attend our past events? We get you covered!
Tech Talk | How Coupang Leverages Distributed Cache to Accelerate ML Model Training
Watch this tech talk recording to gain insights on best practices for leveraging distributed caching to power search and recommendation model training infrastructure.
You’ll learn how Coupang builds a world-class large-scale AI platform for machine learning engineers to deliver better search and recommendation models.
🎙️ Call for Speakers
We regularly host meetups and events for our global community of tech leaders working to build AI infrastructure at scale. Being a speaker at our events is a great opportunity to share your technical expertise and knowledge with the developer community.
To be considered for a speaker in our future events, fill out this form: https://forms.gle/iJX9GTMaAVQdzKc28
Thanks for reading. We're excited to see you at one of the events or for the next newsletter in July!
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