An Intellyx Brain Candy Brief
By now we’re all familiar with the advantages of using caching and CDNs to move the warmest possible data closer to its intended workload for high-volume applications such as analytics, media delivery, and retail.
Since our last coverages of Alluxio in 2023, 2021 and 2019, this cloud native distributed cache vendor has found itself a new lane in the exploding AI/ML space, as model training runs and AI inference workloads can benefit the most from access to speedier local NVMe drives and streams without incurring excess cloud tolls for each ingress or API call.
Cached data elements are accessible through a single shared namespace, a virtual wrapper that respects data gravity while allowing ‘hot-swappable’ data and model distributions, while improving utilization of scarce GPU processing resources and spare CPU inference capacity in different regions.
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