Alluxio foresaw the need for agility when accessing data across silos separated from compute engines like Spark, Presto, Tensorflow and PyTorch. Embracing the separation of storage from compute, the Alluxio data orchestration platform simplifies adoption of the data lake and data mesh paradigm for analytics and AI/ML. In this talk, Bin Fan will share observations to help identify ways to use the platform to meet the needs of your data environment and workloads.
越來越多的企業架構已轉向混合雲和多雲環境。雖然這種轉變帶來了更大的靈活性和敏捷性，但也意味著必須將計算與存儲分離，這就對企業跨框架、跨雲和跨存儲系統的數據管理和編排提出了新的挑戰。此分享將讓聽眾深入了解Alluxio數據編排理念在數據中台對存儲和計算的解耦作用，以及數據編排針對存算分離場景提出的創新架構，同時結合來自金融、運營商、互聯網等行業的典型應用場景來展現Alluxio如何為大數據計算帶來真正的加速，以及如何將數據編排技術用於AI模型訓練！
*This is a bilingual presentation.
Alluxio foresaw the need for agility when accessing data across silos separated from compute engines like Spark, Presto, Tensorflow and PyTorch. Embracing the separation of storage from compute, the Alluxio data orchestration platform simplifies adoption of the data lake and data mesh paradigm for analytics and AI/ML. In this talk, Bin Fan will share observations to help identify ways to use the platform to meet the needs of your data environment and workloads.
越來越多的企業架構已轉向混合雲和多雲環境。雖然這種轉變帶來了更大的靈活性和敏捷性，但也意味著必須將計算與存儲分離，這就對企業跨框架、跨雲和跨存儲系統的數據管理和編排提出了新的挑戰。此分享將讓聽眾深入了解Alluxio數據編排理念在數據中台對存儲和計算的解耦作用，以及數據編排針對存算分離場景提出的創新架構，同時結合來自金融、運營商、互聯網等行業的典型應用場景來展現Alluxio如何為大數據計算帶來真正的加速，以及如何將數據編排技術用於AI模型訓練！
*This is a bilingual presentation.
Alluxio foresaw the need for agility when accessing data across silos separated from compute engines like Spark, Presto, Tensorflow and PyTorch. Embracing the separation of storage from compute, the Alluxio data orchestration platform simplifies adoption of the data lake and data mesh paradigm for analytics and AI/ML. In this talk, Bin Fan will share observations to help identify ways to use the platform to meet the needs of your data environment and workloads.
越來越多的企業架構已轉向混合雲和多雲環境。雖然這種轉變帶來了更大的靈活性和敏捷性，但也意味著必須將計算與存儲分離，這就對企業跨框架、跨雲和跨存儲系統的數據管理和編排提出了新的挑戰。此分享將讓聽眾深入了解Alluxio數據編排理念在數據中台對存儲和計算的解耦作用，以及數據編排針對存算分離場景提出的創新架構，同時結合來自金融、運營商、互聯網等行業的典型應用場景來展現Alluxio如何為大數據計算帶來真正的加速，以及如何將數據編排技術用於AI模型訓練！
*This is a bilingual presentation.
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In the rapidly evolving landscape of AI and machine learning, Platform and Data Infrastructure Teams face critical challenges in building and managing large-scale AI platforms. Performance bottlenecks, scalability of the platform, and scarcity of GPUs pose significant challenges in supporting large-scale model training and serving.
In this talk, we introduce how Alluxio helps Platform and Data Infrastructure teams deliver faster, more scalable platforms to ML Engineering teams developing and training AI models. Alluxio’s highly-distributed cache accelerates AI workloads by eliminating data loading bottlenecks and maximizing GPU utilization. Customers report up to 4x faster training performance with high-speed access to petabytes of data spread across billions of files regardless of persistent storage type or proximity to GPU clusters. Alluxio’s architecture lowers data infrastructure costs, increases GPU utilization, and enables workload portability for navigating GPU scarcity challenges.
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As large-scale machine learning becomes increasingly GPU-centric, modern high-performance hardware like NVMe storage and RDMA networks (InfiniBand or specialized NICs) are becoming more widespread. To fully leverage these resources, it’s crucial to build a balanced architecture that avoids GPU underutilization. In this talk, we will explore various strategies to address this challenge by effectively utilizing these advanced hardware components. Specifically, we will present experimental results from building a Kubernetes-native distributed caching layer, utilizing NVMe storage and high-speed RDMA networks to optimize data access for PyTorch training.