ALLUXIO DAY X 2022
March 3, 2022
Within Alluxio, the master processes keep track of global metadata for the file system. This includes file system metadata, block cache metadata, and worker metadata. When a client interacts with the filesystem it must first query or update the metadata on the master processes. Given their central role in the system, master processes can be backed by a highly available, fault tolerant replicated journal. This talk will introduce and compare the two available implementations of this journal in Alluxio, the first using Zookeeper and the more recent version using Raft.
ALLUXIO DAY X 2022
March 3, 2022
Within Alluxio, the master processes keep track of global metadata for the file system. This includes file system metadata, block cache metadata, and worker metadata. When a client interacts with the filesystem it must first query or update the metadata on the master processes. Given their central role in the system, master processes can be backed by a highly available, fault tolerant replicated journal. This talk will introduce and compare the two available implementations of this journal in Alluxio, the first using Zookeeper and the more recent version using Raft.
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Fireworks AI is a leading inference cloud provider for Generative AI, powering real-time inference and fine-tuning services for customers' applications that require minimal latency, high throughput, and high concurrency. Their GPU infrastructure spans 10+ clouds and 15+ regions, serving enterprises and developers deploying production AI workloads at scale.
With model sizes reaching 70GB+, Fireworks AI faced critical challenges: eliminating cold start delays, managing highly concurrent model downloads across GPU clusters, reducing tens of thousands in annual cloud egress costs, and automating manual pipeline management that consumed 4+ hours weekly. They chose Alluxio as their solution to scale with their hyper-growth without requiring dedicated infrastructure resources.
In this tech talk, Akram Bawayah, Software Engineer at Fireworks AI, and Bin Fan, VP of Technology at Alluxio, share how Fireworks AI uses Alluxio to power their multi-cloud inference infrastructure.
They discuss:
- How Fireworks AI uses Alluxio in its high-performance model distribution system to deliver fast, reliable inference across multiple clouds
- How implementing Alluxio distributed caching achieved 1TB/s+ model deployment throughput, reducing model loading from hours to minutes while significantly cutting cloud egress costs
- How to simplify infrastructure operations and seamlessly scale model distribution across multi-cloud GPU environments
