GPU utilization or GPU usage, is the percentage of GPUs’ processing power being used at a particular time. As GPUs are expensive resources, optimizing their utilization and reducing idle time is essential for enterprise AI infrastructure. This blog explores bottlenecks hindering GPU utilization during model training and provides solutions to maximize GPU utilization. 1. Why … Continued
In this blog, we discuss the data access challenges in AI and why commonly used NAS/NFS may not be a good option for your organization. 1. Early Architecture of AI/ML According to Gartner, although LLMs are on the hype, most organizations are in the early stages, with some in production. In the early stages of … Continued
We take great pride in the Alluxio Data Platform serving many of the most critical data-driven applications in the world as we speak today. Each of us interact with platforms empowered by Alluxio on a daily basis, and unknowingly you are as well. From the voice assistant we speak to, the bank we transact with, … Continued
This blog provides a tutorial on using the Kubernetes operator to simplify deploying and managing Alluxio clusters on Kubernetes. Introduction The Alluxio Kubernetes operator makes deploying and managing Alluxio and the datasets on Kubernetes easier. With the operator, Alluxio clusters can be deployed and managed seamlessly like any other native Kubernetes application. The operator handles … Continued
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
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
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
This blog post discusses the synergy between Trino and Alluxio, and how to deploy Alluxio as the caching layer for Trino. You will learn Why should you choose Alluxio as a cache for Trino How do Trino and Alluxio work together How to configure Alluxio to point to S3 storage like MinIO How to query … Continued
One of the key features of Alluxio Enterprise Edition is Transparent URI, which provides ease of integration of Alluxio with your existing data stack without any changes to the location metadata of the Hive Metastore. This article provides a tutorial on employing the Alluxio Transparent URI capability with Trino, Hive Metastore and Spark, and with … Continued