High Performance Computing (HPC) workloads have traditionally been run only on bare-metal, unvirtualized hardware. However, performance of these highly parallel technical workloads has increased dramatically over the last decade with the introduction of increasingly sophisticated hardware support for virtualization, enabling organizations to begin to embrace the numerous benefits that a virtualization platform can offer. This Read more...
In Part 1 of this series we looked at the challenges facing Analytics workloads, the potential need for GPU based relational databases and the setup of the validation environment. In this part we will look at the results from the validation of the vSphere virtualized SQream Database for data loading and querying. DB Data Loading Read more...
Compute Performance is the new challenge for data analytics Traditional enterprise databases, designed in the past century, fail to scale out effectively to meet the needs of the new streaming analytics applications. X86-based compute alone is unable to keep up with compute needs as the volume of data and its need for speedy processing have Read more...
VMware vSphere is continuously improving to provide enhanced and new features. In every release, significant improvements have been made in the areas of customer experience, security, availability, and performance. This blog highlights the new functionality and performance improvements that are closely related to High-Performance Computing (HPC) and Machine Learning/Deep Learning (ML/DL) workloads from vSphere 6.5 Read more...
This blog is an update of Josh Simon’s previous blog “How to Enable Compute Accelerators on vSphere 6.5 for Machine Learning and Other HPC Workloads”, and explains how to enable Nvidia V100 GPU, which comes with a larger PCI BARs (Base Address Registers) than previous GPU models, in Passthrough mode on vSphere 6.0 p4 and Read more...
