AI Infrastructure
AI storage costs: Calculating cost per training run
Accelerator hours are measured carefully because they are billed carefully. Storage usually appears as a single line in an infrastructure budget with no ...
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AI data staging: When local NVMe helps
Copying training data onto local NVMe before a run is a well established technique, and it is also frequently applied where it does not pay. The copy takes ...
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AI training data access: Separating teams and projects
An AI platform usually starts with one team and one dataset, and access control is a formality because everyone involved is allowed to see everything. By the ...
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AI storage networking: Where bandwidth gets lost
A storage system rated at 200 GB/s and a cluster that can consume it will still frequently meet somewhere around 40. The shortfall is almost never in the ...
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Vector database backups: What else must you protect?
Vector databases are often treated as derived data, on the reasoning that if the index is lost it can simply be rebuilt from the source documents. That ...
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AI data retention: What to keep after model training
When a model goes into production, the environment that produced it does not clean itself up. The training data stays where it was, the checkpoints accumulate, ...
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AI dataset integrity: Detecting missing or changed data
A training job that quietly reads 4,000 fewer samples than it did last month will still finish, still produce a model, and still report a plausible accuracy ...
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AI storage benchmarks: What to test before buying
Storage vendors publish impressive throughput figures for AI workloads, and those figures are usually accurate for the configuration that produced them. The ...
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Multimodal AI storage: Managing images, audio and video
A storage design that works well for a dataset of photographs can behave very differently once audio and video are added to it. The three media types differ by ...
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AI checkpoint storage: How to size write throughput
Most storage sizing for AI training starts with the dataset. Checkpointing is what breaks that plan. A training job pauses at intervals to write out the full ...