Stop Staring the GPU - with S3 RDMA

About this episode

The episode discusses bottlenecks in AI infrastructure and the advancements of S3 RDMA in data pipelines.

Welcome to “Is that how it happened” — in this episode we rip the lid off the bottlenecks holding your AI infrastructure back and get serious about what's actually moving data at the speed your workloads demand. I'm your host, The Vanimal, and today we're going deep — and I mean deep — on one of the most exciting developments in modern AI data pipelines: S3 RDMA Direct from Cloudian. If you've ever watched your GPU cluster sit idle while it waits for data to feed through an overloaded CPU, ...

People in this episode

Host: The Vanimal

Topics covered

• AI infrastructure
• data pipelines
• GPU performance
• data transfer
• cloud computing

Keywords

• AI
• GPU
• data transfer
• S3 RDMA
• Cloudian
• infrastructure
• performance

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Cloudian

Products: S3 RDMA

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