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Unlock the full performance of your AI/ML infrastructure on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
Join Oracle's Master Principal Cloud Architect Xinghong He and Alluxio's VP of Technology Bin Fan for an in-depth technical session exploring how modern tiered caching, optimized storage integration, and smart deployment choices can deliver sub-millisecond latency and up to 5× faster data access on OCI — at scale.
You'll learn about:
- Architectural insights: How Alluxio’s tiered caching architecture works with OCI Object Storage and BM.DenseIO compute instances to eliminate data access bottlenecks.
- Benchmark-proven results: See real MLPerf Storage 2.0 and Warp benchmark outcomes demonstrating sub-millisecond latency and dramatic throughput gains.
- Deployment strategies: Compare deployment options — dedicated mode for peak performance vs. co-located mode for cost-efficient scale.
- Practical, actionable guidance: Implementation best practices you can apply directly to your AI/ML workloads on OCI.
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
In this talk, Eric Wang, Senior Staff Software Engineer introduces Uber’s open-source generative end-to-end ML lifecycle management platform: Michelangelo.
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While running analytics workloads using EMR Spark on S3 is a common deployment today, many organizations face issues in performance and consistency. EMR can be bottlenecked when reading large amounts of data from S3, and sharing data across multiple stages of a pipeline can be difficult as S3 is eventually consistent for read-your-own-write scenarios.
A simple solution is to run Spark on Alluxio as a distributed cache for S3. Alluxio stores data in memory close to Spark, providing high performance, in addition to providing data accessibility and abstraction for deployments in both public and hybrid clouds.
In this webinar you’ll learn how to:
- Increase performance by setting up Alluxio so Spark can seamlessly read from and write to S3
- Use Alluxio as the input/output for Spark applications
- Save and load Spark RDDs and Dataframes with Alluxio
Alluxio Open Source creator Haoyuan Li‘s keynote at O’Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference discusses data revolution trend, the inevitable journey of data silos, and the missing piece of the data world – Data Orchestration System!
The data ecosystem has heavily evolved over the past two decades. There’s been an explosion of data-driven frameworks, such as Presto, Hive, and Spark to run analytics and ETL queries and TensorFlow and PyTorch to train and serve models. On the data side, the approach to managing and storing data has evolved from HDFS to cheaper, more scalable and separated services typified by cloud stores like AWS S3. As a result, data engineering has become increasingly complex, inefficient, and hard, particularly in hybrid and cloud environments.
Haoyuan Li offers an overview of a data orchestration layer that provides a unified data access and caching layer for single cloud, hybrid, and multicloud deployments. It enables distributed compute engines like Presto, TensorFlow, and PyTorch to transparently access data from various storage systems (including S3, HDFS, and Azure) while actively leveraging an in-memory cache to accelerate data access.
Alluxio 2.0 is the most ambitious platform upgrade since the inception of Alluxio with greatly expanded capabilities to empower users to run analytics and AI workloads on private, public or hybrid cloud infrastructures leveraging valuable data wherever it might be stored. This preview release, now available for download, includes many advancements that will allow users to push the limits of their data-workloads in the cloud.
In this webinar, we will introduce the key new features and enhancements such as:
- Support for hyper-scale data workloads with tiered metadata storage, distributed cluster services, and adaptive replication for increased data locality
- Machine learning and deep learning workloads on any storage with the improved POSIX API
- Better storage abstraction with support for HDFS clusters across different versions & active sync with Hadoop
As data analytic needs have increased with the explosion of data, the importance of the speed of analytics and the interactivity of queries has increased dramatically
In this tech talk, we will introduce the Starburst Presto, Alluxio, and cloud object store stack for building a highly-concurrent and low-latency analytics platform. This stack provides a strong solution to run fast SQL across multiple storage systems including HDFS, S3, and others in public cloud, hybrid cloud, and multi-cloud environments.
You’ll learn about:
- The architecture of Presto, an open source distributed SQL engine, as well as innovations by Starburst like as it’s cost-based optimizer
- How Presto can query data from cloud object storage like S3 at high performance and cost-effectively with Alluxio
- How to achieve data locality and cross-job caching with Alluxio no matter where the data is persisted and reduce egress costs
In addition, we’ll present some real world architectures & use cases from internet companies like JD.com and NetEase.com running the Presto and Alluxio stack at the scale of hundreds of nodes.
Enterprises are increasingly looking towards object stores to power their big data & machine learning workloads in a cost-effective way. The combination of SwiftStack and Alluxio together, enables users to seamlessly move towards a disaggregated architecture. Swiftstack provides a massively parallel cloud object storage and multi-cloud data management system. Alluxio is a data orchestration layer, which sits between compute frameworks and storage systems and enables big data workloads to be deployed directly on SwiftStack. Alluxio provides data locality, accessibility and elasticity via its core innovations. With the Alluxio and Swiftstack solution, Spark, Presto, Tensorflow and Hive and other compute workloads can benefit from 10X performance improvement and dramatically lower costs. In this tech talk, we will provide a brief overview of the Alluxio and SwiftStack solution as well as the key use cases it enables.
You’ll learn about:
- The trends driving organizations towards object stores
- An overview of Swiftstack and Alluxio
- Deep dive into the benefits of the Swiftstack Data Analytics Solution with Alluxio
The rise of compute intensive workloads and the adoption of the cloud has driven organizations to adopt a decoupled architecture for modern workloads – one in which compute scales independently from storage. While this enables scaling elasticity, it introduces new problems – how do you co-locate data with compute, how do you unify data across multiple remote clouds, how do you keep storage and I/O service costs down and many more.
Enter Alluxio, a virtual unified file system, which sits between compute and storage that allows you to realize the benefits of a hybrid cloud architecture with the same performance and lower costs.
In this webinar, we will discuss:
- Why leading enterprises are adopting hybrid cloud architectures with compute and storage disaggregated
- The new challenges that this new paradigm introduces
- An introduction to Alluxio and the unified data solution it provides for hybrid environments