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11:45 BST

Cloud Native AI: Harness the Power of Advanced Scheduling for High-Performance AI/ML Training - William Wang & Xuzheng Chang, Huawei

Friday April 4, 2025 11:45 - 12:15 BST

Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 14-16

In the era of large models, as models and data are becoming increasingly larger, LLM workloads have extremely high requirements for network throughput and latency.

However, Kubernetes has no awareness of either the parallel models of LLM workloads or the underlying high-speed network communication topology, which leads to a loss in training performance. Meanwhile, many expensive high-performance underlying resources are not utilized more efficiently.

As one of the important projects for Cloud-native AI, Volcano has conducted in-depth research over the past year. It has remodeled the workloads in large model training and inference scenarios as well as the new network topologies, and designed and implemented high-performance scheduling features.

This talk will cover：
1. The complexities related to intelligent scheduling, improving performance and cost-effective
2. Methodology to reconsider the resource model and LLM workload
3. Enhancement to Volcano to optimize training for AI/ML

Speakers

William Wang (Leibo Wang)

Senior software engineer, Nvidia

Cloud native architect, open-source enthusiast, technical lead and maintainer of CNCF Volcano, software developer with a decade of experience in diverse domains including cloud native technology, large-scale cluster resource management, batch scheduling, BigData, and AI acceleration... Read More →

Xuzheng Chang

Senior engineer, Huawei Cloud

XuzhengChang is a maintainer of the Volcano community, with in-depth research and practical experience in the fields of batch computing and cloud-native AI scheduling. Xuzheng has spearheaded several significant features within the Volcano community, including network topology-aware... Read More →

Friday April 4, 2025 11:45 - 12:15 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 14-16

Maintainer Track, Volcano