Eliminating Data Download Steps Before GPU Training
Poor I/O setups leave GPUs idle 50% of the time, costing thousands monthly in wasted compute.
Nadia Prasad
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8 stories in Object Storage.
Poor I/O setups leave GPUs idle 50% of the time, costing thousands monthly in wasted compute.
S3 was built for backups, not training—AWS is finally closing the gap.
Agents need filesystems, not object storage, to avoid silent failures and runaway costs.
Storage bottlenecks cut GPU utilization in half, and most cloud providers can't fix it.
Agents need filesystems, not databases, to remember work between sessions.
Storage bottlenecks leave 40% of enterprise GPUs idle waiting for data during training.
Assistants answer questions; agents pursue goals across multiple steps and systems.