diff --git a/tests/unit/alexnet_model.py b/tests/unit/alexnet_model.py
index ab51a4630b7f..b94bd7052a9f 100755
--- a/tests/unit/alexnet_model.py
+++ b/tests/unit/alexnet_model.py
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ def cifar_trainset(fp16=False):
     dist.barrier()
     if local_rank != 0:
         dist.barrier()
-    trainset = torchvision.datasets.CIFAR10(root='/tmp/cifar10-data',
+    trainset = torchvision.datasets.CIFAR10(root='/blob/cifar10-data',
                                             train=True,
                                             download=True,
                                             transform=transform)