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Unexplored Territory Podcast Episode 19 – Discussing NUMA and Cores per Sockets with the main CPU engineer of vSphere

July 1, 2022
Richard Lu joined us to talk basics of NUMA, Cores per Socket, why modern windows and mac systems have a default 2 cores per socket setting, how cores per sock... Read More...
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Machine Learning on VMware Platform – Part 3 – Training versus Inference

June 30, 2022
Machine Learning on VMware Cloud Platform – Part 1 covered the three distinct phases: concept, training, and deployment, part 2 explored the data streams,... Read More...
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Unexplored Territory Podcast Episode 18 – Not just artificially intelligent featuring Mazhar Memon

June 13, 2022
In this week’s Unexplored Territory Podcast, we have Mazhar Memon as our guest. Mazhar is one of the founders of VMware Bitfusion and the principal inventor of... Read More...
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MACHINE LEARNING ON VMWARE PLATFORM – PART 2

June 8, 2022
Resource Utilization Efficiency Machine learning, especially deep learning, is notorious for consuming large amounts of GPU resources during training. Howev... Read More...
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Machine Learning on VMware Platform – Part 1

May 25, 2022
Machine Learning is reshaping modern business. Most VMware customers look at machine learning to increase revenue or decrease cost. When talking to customers, ... Read More...
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Solving vNUMA Topology Mismatch When Migrating between Dual Socket Servers and Quad Socket Servers

March 11, 2022
I recently received a few questions from customers migrating between clusters with different CPU socket footprints. The challenge is not necessarily migrating ... Read More...
1451 views7 min read

Stop designing your server platform with solely the CPU roadmap in mind

December 20, 2021
Over the last 20 years, we designed our core data center platform following the CPU roadmap. But in today's world, the devices attached to the processor make r... Read More...
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Exciting Sessions from NVIDIA GTC Fall 2021

December 9, 2021
A list of exciting sessions of this falls NVIDIA GTC conference on data science, inference, machine learning in retail and other AI related topics... Read More...
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vSphere 7 Cores per Socket and Virtual NUMA

December 2, 2021
Regularly I meet with customers to discuss NUMA technology, and one of the topics that are always on the list is the Cores per Socket setting and its potential... Read More...
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DRS threshold 1 does not initiate Load balancing vMotions

October 22, 2021
vSphere 7.0 introduces DRS 2.0 and its new load balancing algorithm. In essence, the new DRS is completely focused on taking care of the needs of the VMs and d... Read More...
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About the Author

Frank Denneman is a Chief Technologist in the Office of CTO of the Cloud Infrastructure Business Group at VMware. Frank focuses on Machine Learning Infrastructure and on compute resource management such as DRS and NUMA. He is the author of multiple books, including “vSphere 6.5 Host Technical Deep Dive” and the “vSphere Clustering Technical Deep Dive” series. He is the host of the podcast: “Unexplored Territory“.