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[DotAI2024] DotAI 2024: Yann Léger – Serverless Inference: Perspectives from the Substrate
Yann Léger, co-founder of Koyeb—a serverless sanctuary for AI sojourns—and veteran of Scaleway’s sprawl, plumbed the profundities of provisioning at DotAI 2024. With twelve years sculpting clouds from colocation crucibles to hypervisor heights, Léger laments latency’s lament: GPU galleons gilded yet gauche, underutilized by ungainly underlayers. His treatise traversed tiers—from silicon shards to virtualization veils, storage strata—unveiling unlocks for lithe, lavish inference.
Substrate’s Symphony: Chips to Containers
Léger limned infrastructure’s immensity: AI’s appetite annexes 28% of datacenter dynamos, ballooning fivefold by 2028—cloud’s quintessence quintupling national kilowatts. Yet, prodigality prevails: NVIDIA’s near-monopoly marooned on middling middleware, yields languishing at 20-30%.
Salvation stirs in silicon’s spectrum: AMD’s MI300X muscling Mistral’s mandates, Intel’s Gaudi grappling Grok’s girth—diversity’s dividend, decentralizing dependency. Léger lauded liquid cooling’s liberation: 100kW cabinets cascading cascades, unthrottled thermals turbocharging throughput.
Virtualization’s vanguard: GPU passthrough partitioning prowess, SR-IOV’s segmented streams—each enclave ensconced, isolation ironclad sans silos.
Scaling Sans Slack: Storage and Snapshot Savvy
Storage’s saga: NVMe’s nexus, disaggregated via Ethernet’s ether—RDMA’s rapid relays rivaling PCIe proximity. Léger spotlighted cold starts’ scourge: seconds squandered summoning sentinels, autoscalers asleep at switches.
Remedy’s realm: memory mirroring—snapshots sequestering states, resurrecting replicas in milliseconds on CPUs, aspiring to accelerator alacrity via PCIe Gen5’s gales (500GB/s conduits). Hints from heights: applications augur accesses, prefetching payloads—caches clairvoyant, latencies lacerated.
Léger’s lens: holistic harmonies—optimizations omnipresent, from opcode osmosis to orchestration oases. Prognosis: tenfold thrift by tomorrow, leviathans liberated for legions, imagination’s ignition unignitioned by infrastructure’s irons.
In peroration, Léger lured luminaries: IDs agape, beckoning builders to bolster the bedrock—where serverless surges, sovereignty supreme.