Traditionally, HPC workloads have been deployed in bare-metal clusters, but the advances in virtualization have led the pathway for these workloads to be deployed in virtualized clusters. However, HPC cluster administrators/providers still face challenges in terms of resource elasticity and virtual machine provisioning at large-scale, due to the lack of coordination between a traditional HPC Read more...
Introduction Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) as accelerators for data center workloads are beginning to cross the chasm of broader adoption. FPGAs have been around for more than twenty-five years and have successfully accelerated IO-centric applications such as network routers and storage controllers. FPGAs are reconfigurable hardware that offer software-like flexibility while delivering hardware-like performance Read more...
On Tuesday, June 2nd, starting at 9am Pacific time, Dell and VMware will conduct a joint online event on enablement technologies for machine learning and AI applications. There will be some exciting announcements from executives at the two companies, including from Krish Prasad, Senior Vice-President of the Cloud Platform Business Unit and GM of vSphere Read more...
vSphere 7.0 is the biggest release of vSphere in over a decade, with a completely new design to power modernization of both infrastructure and applications. The headline news is that vSphere now support Kubernetes natively, so that you can run VMs and containers on the same platform. In addition, the new release of vSphere 7.0 Read more...
VMware vSphere has three main methods of setting up GPUs for use in VMs. This article helps you navigate through those methods. It outlines the pros and cons of using each approach so that you can judge how to proceed to best serve the needs of your machine learning user community . The detailed descriptions Read more...
