AI Inference Challenges & KV Caching Solution - AI inference faces challenges with large context windows, impacting tokenization and latency [1][2] - Caching context tokens speeds up responsiveness, lowers latency, and allows storing larger context amounts [4] - Effective caching requires storage systems with low latency and large capacity at scale [5] DDN's Solution & Performance - DDN's Exoscaler platform enables high-performance KV caching for AI inference, improving user concurrency, responsiveness, and user experience [7] - DDN leverages GPU direct storage (GDS) for cached engine [9] - Caching demonstrates a 10x improvement in performance with larger context [14] - DDN's Exoscaler performance can improve time to first token during inference by 10-25x [16] - DDN improves response times, provides larger cache repository space, and delivers cost-effective performance and capacity density [17] Capacity Implications - KV caching accelerates the end-user experience, putting a premium on high-performance shared storage [16] - Approximately 200,000 input characters resulted in a cache of 796 files, totaling almost 13 gigabytes [15]