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Coupang, a Fortune 200 technology company, manages a multi-cluster GPU architecture for their AI/ML model training. This architecture introduced significant challenges, including:
- Time-consuming data preparation and data copy/movement
- Difficulty utilizing GPU resources efficiently
- High and growing storage costs
- Excessive operational overhead maintaining storage for localized data silos
To resolve these challenges, Coupang’s AI platform team implemented a distributed caching system that automatically retrieves training data from their central data lake, improves data loading performance, unifies access paths for model developers, automates data lifecycle management, and extends easily across Kubernetes environments. The new distributed caching architecture has improved model training speed, reduced storage costs, increased GPU utilization across clusters, lowered operational overhead, enabled training workload portability, and delivered 40% better I/O performance compared to parallel file systems.
Suresh Kumar Veerapathiran and Anudeep Kumar, engineering leaders at Uptycs, recently shared their experience of evolving their data platform and analytics architecture to power analytics through a generative AI interface. In their post on Medium titled Cache Me If You Can: Building a Lightning-Fast Analytics Cache at Terabyte Scale, Veerapathiran and Kumar provide detailed insights into the challenges they faced (and how they solved them) scaling their analytics solution that collects and reports on terabytes of telemetry data per day as part of Uptycs Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) solutions.
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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 LLM. This blog provides an in-depth look at Zhihu’s challenges, journey, and solution for LLM training and deployment. Through adopting Alluxio, we’ve significantly enhanced model training performance by 2 to 3 times and can deploy updated models every minute instead of hours or days. Also, our GPU utilization has doubled, infrastructure and operation costs have been halved, and we have established a resilient, efficient infrastructure capable of meeting our escalating AI demands.
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