Get the latest and greatest tips to accelerate your PyTorch model training for machine learning and deep learning. PyTorch, an open-source machine learning framework, has become the de facto choice for many organizations to develop and deploy deep learning models. Model training is the most compute-intensive phase of the machine learning pipeline. It requires continuous … Continued
Originally published on trino.io: https://trino.io/blog/2023/07/21/trino-fest-2023-alluxio-recap.html By 2025, there will be 100 zetabytes stored in the cloud. That’s 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes – a huge, eye-popping number. But only about 10% of that data is actually used on a regular basis. At Uber, for example, only 1% of their disk space is used for 50% of the data they access … Continued
Data caching is essential to the modern data stack, allowing organizations to access data quickly and efficiently for analytics and AI. On June 28, 2023, we presented Data Caching Strategies for Data Analytics and AI at Data+AI Summit 2023. We are excited to bring you a recap of that presentation through this blog post. We … Continued
We are pleased to unveil the latest version of Alluxio. This new release represents a significant milestone to enhance system reliability under different kinds of resource limitations or stress scenarios, particularly to get the most out of limited hardware resources to scale at manageable costs. Enhanced Functionality: Dramatic Improvements in High Availability (HA): Mission-critical applications … Continued
Bringing a large language model from its initial training to deployment requires numerous systems and components. At Zhihu, we grappled with a multi-cloud, cross-region AI platform, requiring an efficient solution to facilitate the rapid training and delivery of models for production use cases. This led us to adopt Alluxio, the high-performance data access layer for … Continued
In October 2022, Uber’s Presto team shared in a blog post using the Alluxio SDK cache to boost Presto query performance and cost efficiency. This achievement is a major milestone in the collaboration between Alluxio and Uber. Thus far, the Uber Presto team has implemented the Alluxio SDK cache in three production clusters spanning over … Continued
Understand the data transfer and egress costs of Amazon Web Services and how to reduce them. The Challenges with Rising Cloud Costs Cloud storage has gained popularity recently, but managing AWS or other cloud service costs can be a significant challenge for enterprises. While AWS offers free data input to the cloud service, they charge … Continued
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! … Continued
Chuanying Chen, Senior Software Engineer at Ant Group, provides a deep dive into the practices of optimizing Alluxio for reliable, scalable, and high-performance large-scale training on billions of files. 1. Background Ant Group, formerly known as Ant Financial, is an affiliate company of the Chinese conglomerate Alibaba Group. The group owns the world’s largest mobile … Continued