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OpenAI’s developer Developer Experience Engineer, Ankit Khare, provides practical insights for AI enthusiasts on effectively customizing and leveraging LLMs in various applications through preference tuning and fine-tuning.
In today’s AI-driven world, organizations face unprecedented demands for powerful AI infrastructure to fuel their model training and serving workloads. Performance bottlenecks, cost inefficiencies, and management complexities pose significant challenges for AI platform teams supporting large-scale model training and serving. On July 9, 2024, we introduced Alluxio Enterprise AI 3.2, a groundbreaking solution designed to address these critical issues in the ever-evolving AI landscape.
In this webinar, Shouwei Chen introduced exciting new features of Alluxio Enterprise AI 3.2:
- Leveraging GPU resources anywhere accessing remote data with the same local performance
- Enhanced I/O performance with 97%+ GPU utilization for popular language model training benchmarks
- Achieving the same performance as HPC storage on existing data lake without additional HPC storage infrastructure
- New Python FileSystem API to seamlessly integrate with Python applications like Ray
- Other new features, include advanced cache management, rolling upgrades, and CSI failover
As Trino users increasingly rely on cloud object storage for retrieving data, speed and cloud cost have become major challenges. The separation of compute and storage creates latency challenges when querying datasets; scanning data between storage and compute tiers becomes I/O bound. On the other hand, cloud API costs related to GET/LIST operations and cross-region data transfer add up quickly.
The newly introduced Trino file system cache by Alluxio aims to overcome the above challenges. In this session, Jianjian will dive into Trino data caching strategies, the latest test results, and discuss the multi-level caching architecture. This architecture makes Trino 10x faster for data lakes of any scale, from GB to EB.
What you will learn:
- Challenges relating to the speed and costs of running Trino in the cloud
- The new Trino file system cache feature overview, including the latest development status and test results
- A multi-level cache framework for maximized speed, including Trino file system cache and Alluxio distributed cache
- Real-world cases, including a large online payment firm and a top ridesharing company
- The future roadmap of Trino file system cache and Trino-Alluxio integration
Running AI/ML workloads in different clouds present unique challenges. The key to a manageable multi-cloud architecture is the ability to seamlessly access data across environments with high performance and low cost.
This webinar is designed for data platform engineers, data infra engineers, data engineers, and ML engineers who work with multiple data sources in hybrid or multi-cloud environments. Chanchan and Bin will guide the audience through using Alluxio to greatly simplify data access and make model training and serving more efficient in these environments.
You will learn:
- How to access data in multi-region, hybrid, and multi-cloud like accessing a local file system
- How to run PyTorch to read datasets and write checkpoints to remote storage with Alluxio as the distributed data access layer
- Real-world examples and insights from tech giants like Uber, AliPay and more
Cloud-native model training jobs require fast data access to achieve shorter training cycles. Accessing data can be challenging when your datasets are distributed across different regions and clouds. Additionally, as GPUs remain scarce and expensive resources, it becomes more common to set up remote training clusters from where data resides. This multi-region/cloud scenario introduces the challenges of losing data locality, resulting in operational overhead, latency and expensive cloud costs.
In the third webinar of the multi-cloud webinar series, Chanchan and Shawn dive deep into:
- The data locality challenges in the multi-region/cloud ML pipeline
- Using a cloud-native distributed caching system to overcome these challenges
- The architecture and integration of PyTorch/Ray+Alluxio+S3 using POSIX or RESTful APIs
- Live demo with ResNet and BERT benchmark results showing performance gains and cost savings analysis
In this presentation, Bin Fan (VP of Open Source @ Alluxio) will address a critical challenge of optimizing data loading for distributed Python applications within AI/ML workloads in the cloud, focusing on popular frameworks like Ray and Hugging Face. Integration of Alluxio’s distributed caching for Python applications is accomplished using the fsspec interface, thus greatly improving data access speeds. This is particularly useful in machine learning workflows, where repeated data reloading across slow, unstable or congested networks can severely affect GPU efficiency and escalate operational costs.
Attendees can look forward to practical, hands-on demonstrations showcasing the tangible benefits of Alluxio’s caching mechanism across various real-world scenarios. These demos will highlight the enhancements in data efficiency and overall performance of data-intensive Python applications. This presentation is tailored for developers and data scientists eager to optimize their AI/ML workloads. Discover strategies to accelerate your data processing tasks, making them not only faster but also more cost-efficient.
As GenAI and AI continue to transform businesses, scaling these workloads requires optimized underlying infrastructure. A multi-cloud architecture allows organizations to leverage different cloud services to meet diverse workload demands while maximizing efficiency, reducing costs, and avoiding vendor lock-in. However, achieving a multi-cloud vision can be challenging.
In this webinar, Tarik will share how an agonistic data layer, like Alluxio, allows you to embrace the separation of storage from compute and simplify the adoption of multi-cloud for AI.
- Learn why leveraging multiple cloud providers is critical for balancing performance, scalability, and cost of your AI platform
- Discover how an agnostic data layer like Alluxio provides seamless data access in multi-cloud that bridges storage and compute without data replication
- Gain insights into real-world examples and best practices for deploying AI across on-prem, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments