feat. Apple Case Study using Tensorflow, NFS, DC/OS, and Alluxio
ALLUXIO ONLINE MEETUP
Data scientists or platform engineers often face the following challenge when the input data for machine learning jobs are stored in remote storage like NFS or cloud storage like S3. Making direct data access is slow, unstable and expensive; manually duplicating data to the training clusters also introduces large overhead, complicated data curation and often requires engineers to build ETL pipelines.
This talk will guide the audience on how Alluxio can greatly simplify the data preparation phase in with remote and possibly multiple data sources. We will share the lessons and benchmark from Bill Zhao an engineer led in Apple when building a Machine Learning platform using Tensorflow, NFS, DC/OS and Alluxio.
In this online meetup, you will learn about:
- When Alluxio can help for machine learning platform;
- How to setup and create POSIX endpoint for Alluxio service to unify the file system data access to S3, HDFS and Azure blob storage;
- How to run TensorFlow to train models backed by accessing remote input data like access local file system.
feat. Apple Case Study using Tensorflow, NFS, DC/OS, and Alluxio
ALLUXIO ONLINE MEETUP
Data scientists or platform engineers often face the following challenge when the input data for machine learning jobs are stored in remote storage like NFS or cloud storage like S3. Making direct data access is slow, unstable and expensive; manually duplicating data to the training clusters also introduces large overhead, complicated data curation and often requires engineers to build ETL pipelines.
This talk will guide the audience on how Alluxio can greatly simplify the data preparation phase in with remote and possibly multiple data sources. We will share the lessons and benchmark from Bill Zhao an engineer led in Apple when building a Machine Learning platform using Tensorflow, NFS, DC/OS and Alluxio.
In this online meetup, you will learn about:
- When Alluxio can help for machine learning platform;
- How to setup and create POSIX endpoint for Alluxio service to unify the file system data access to S3, HDFS and Azure blob storage;
- How to run TensorFlow to train models backed by accessing remote input data like access local file system.
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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
