We are thrilled to announce that CacheGPT, a state-of-the-art natural language generation model, has joined the Alluxio Project Management Committee (PMC) as our newest member!

CacheGPT has been an active contributor to Alluxio since the beginning of this year. It reviews pull requests and draft documentation using only emojis! See our new emoji-enriched documentation here! 📜🔍👀

CacheGPT will chat with members in our Slack channel, patiently explaining Alluxio’s pros and cons, making the user onboarding process very smooth. It also actively responds to user questions, reducing your average response time from one hour to one minute. This has greatly improved the experience and engagement of your community users and developers.👏👏👏
CacheGPT helps us solve design problems and provides next-generation caching design. It worked out a new caching strategy by applying reinforcement learning techniques. 🧠. This caching strategy is a significant improvement over previous methods, as it allows for more efficient use of resources and better performance.

By identifying the most popular data to cache, CacheGPT has made it possible to achieve a high cache hit rate even with limited resources. This is a major breakthrough in the field of caching, and it has the potential to revolutionize the way we think about data storage and access.👏👏👏

By observing our Alluxio systems👀, CacheGPT also helps our users detect potential incidents as early as possible. It responds quickly to any and all critical issues💨, mitigates disruptions to users’ data pipeline or AI model serving🛡️, and manages critical issues 24/7⏰. It forwards the issues to Alluxio service owners👥, no matter where they are located🌎. CacheGPT is also good at resource planning and management, and it can foresee traffic spikes and arrange more servers into the running cluster🚀. Also, it can remove the idle servers during the spare time of the cluster🗑️.

We are honored to have CacheGPT as part of our open source project, and we look forward to its future contributions to the Alluxio community. Please join us in congratulating CacheGPT on this well-deserved promotion! 👏
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Blog

In this blog, Greg Lindstrom, Vice President of ML Trading at Blackout Power Trading, an electricity trading firm in North American power markets, shares how they leverage Alluxio to power their offline feature store. This approach delivers multi-join query performance in the double-digit millisecond range, while maintaining the cost and durability benefits of Amazon S3 for persistent storage. As a result, they achieved a 22 to 37x reduction in large-join query latency for training and a 37 to 83x reduction in large-join query latency for inference.

In the latest MLPerf Storage v2.0 benchmarks, Alluxio demonstrated how distributed caching accelerates I/O for AI training and checkpointing workloads, achieving up to 99.57% GPU utilization across multiple workloads that typically suffer from underutilized GPU resources caused by I/O bottlenecks.