Dear Aluxio Community,

All of us at Aluxio are wishing you a very happy holiday season!

As we wrap up an incredible year, we want to express our heartfelt gratitude to you and our entire community and celebrate what we've achieved together throughout 2024. Marked by community growth, impactful product innovation, and amazing partnerships - this year has been transformative for Alluxio and our broader AI/ML Infra Community.

🌟 Community Engagement Highlights

Our AI/ML Infra meetup series brought together AI/ML infrastructure experts and enthusiasts for invaluable in-person learning and networking:

• Four signature meetups with our partners at Uber, OpenAI, Poshmark, Meta, NVIDIA, Zoom Developers and more
• Record attendance of more than 3,000 participants across events
• 19 technical talks delivered by 22 thought leaders

Slides and Recordings of Popular Tech Talks:

• Maximizing GPU Efficiency : Optimizing Model Training with GPUs Anywhere - Bin Fan, VP of Technology, Alluxio @ AI/ML Infrastructure Meetup feat. OpenAI, Poshmark & Alluxio (August 29)
• Uber's Data Storage Evolution - Jing Zhao, Principal Engineer, Uber @ Data Infrastructure Meetup at Uber (January 25)
• ML Explainability in Michelangelo - Eric Wang, Senior Staff Software Engineer, Uber @ AI/ML Infrastructure Meetup at Uber (May 23)
• Preference Tuning and Fine Tuning LLMs - Ankit Khare, Developer Experience Engineer, OpenAI @ AI/ML Infrastructure Meetup featuring OpenAI, Poshmark & Alluxio (August 29)
• TorchTitan: One-stop PyTorch Native Solution - Tianyu Liu, Research Scientist, Meta @ AI/ML Infrastructure Meetup with Meta, NVIDIA, Zoom Developers & Alluxio (November 7)

We cannot wait for 2025 - register for the upcoming AI/ML Infra Meetup co-hosted by Alluxio and Anyscale on Thu, Jan 23, 2025, in San Francisco & virtual.

🚀 Product Innovation Major Releases

This year marked significant advancements in our product portfolio, delivering powerful features to address the demanding needs of scaling AI/ML and data infrastructure:

• What's New In Alluxio Enterprise AI 3.2: GPU Acceleration, Python Filesystem API, Write Checkpointing and More
• • GPU acceleration achieving 97%+ utilization in MLPerf benchmarks
  • Python Filesystem API (FSSpec) for seamless integration with ML frameworks like Pytorch and Ray
  • Write checkpointing support with 10GB/s throughput and 200K IOPS per FUSE client
• Introducing Rapid Alluxio Deployer On AWS: Experience The Benefits Of Alluxio Enterprise AI In A Few Clicks
  • Split-plane architecture ensuring data security within AWS environment
  • Automated deployment with pre-configured FIO benchmarking
  • Optimized integration with S3 and simplified WebUI administration
  • ~40-minute setup-to-production timeline
• Alluxio Enterprise for Data Analytics 3.2: Scaling to New Heights
  • DORA (Decentralized Object Repository Architecture) supporting billions of files
  • Page Store reducing read amplification by 150x
  • Zero-copy Netty-based transmission improving sequential reads by 30-50%
  • Enhanced K8s support with rolling upgrades and RESTful cache control APIs
  • 2x performance improvement for remote region S3 access in TPC-DS benchmarks

Visit the new documentation page for product and version details.

🤝 Strategic Integrations

We deepened our technical integrations to enhance data access across popular frameworks:

• This Is How To Optimize PyTorch for Faster Model Training
• Accelerating Data Loading in Large-Scale ML Training With Ray and Alluxio
• Trino and Alluxio, Better Together

🏆 Global Conference Presence

We shared our expertise at many prestigious industry events:

• KubeCon Europe Keynote, Data on Kubernetes Day - Paris, France
• Open Source Summit and AI_dev Japan - Tokyo, Japan
• USENIX ATC '24 - Santa Clara, CA, USA
• Ray Summit - San Francisco, CA, USA
• Real-Time Analytics Summit - San Jose, CA, USA
• PrestoCon Day & PrestoCon - Fremont, CA, USA
• Data Council - Austin, TX, USA
• Scale 21x - Pasadena, CA, USA
• Community Over Code NA - Denver, CO, USA
• MSST (Massive Storage Systems and Technology) 2024 - Santa Clara, CA, USA

🔮 2025 & Beyond

While 2024 was packed with excitement surrounding AI and analytics, 2025 looks to be even more exciting. Haoyuan Li, Alluxio’s Founder & CEO, shared six key trends that will define our industry's trajectory in 2025 and beyond:

1. Multi-modal training becoming mainstream
2. Pre-training emerging as an organizational differentiator
3. Data access optimization becoming mission-critical
4. AI-driven cloud economics reshaping infrastructure decisions
5. GPU utilization optimization as the new standard
6. Evolution from MLOps to AIOps

We look forward to building on our strong foundation as a community and helping you achieve great heights in 2025! As always we’re here to help:

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