This hands-on session discusses best practices for using PyTorch and Alluxio during model training on AWS. Shawn and Lu provide a step-by-step demonstration of how to use Alluxio on EKS as a distributed cache to accelerate computer vision model training jobs that read datasets from S3. This architecture significantly improves the utilization of GPUs from 30% to 90%+, archives ~5x faster training, and lower cloud storage costs.
This hands-on session discusses best practices for using PyTorch and Alluxio during model training on AWS. Shawn and Lu provide a step-by-step demonstration of how to use Alluxio on EKS as a distributed cache to accelerate computer vision model training jobs that read datasets from S3. This architecture significantly improves the utilization of GPUs from 30% to 90%+, archives ~5x faster training, and lower cloud storage costs.
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