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vSphere 8 and vSan 8 Unexplored Territory Podcast Double Header

September 5, 2022
This week we released two episodes covering the vSphere 8 and vSan 8 releases. Together with Feidhlim O'Leary, we discover all the new functions and featur... Read More...
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Unexplored Territory – VMware Explore USA Special

September 2, 2022
This week Duncan and I attended VMware Explore to co-present the session "60 Minutes of Virtually Speaking Live: Accelerating Cloud Transformation." with Willi... Read More...
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New vSphere 8 Features for Consistent ML Workload Performance

August 30, 2022
vSphere 8 is full of enhancements. Go to blogs.vmware.com or yellow-bricks.com for more extensive overviews of the vSphere 8 release. In th... Read More...
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Training vs Inference – Network Compression

August 26, 2022
This training versus inference workload series provides platform architects and owners insights about ML workload characteristics. Instead of treating deep neu... Read More...
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How to Write a Book – Show Up Daily

August 1, 2022
During the Belgium VMUG, I talked with Jeffrey Kusters and the VMUG leadership team about the challenges of writing a book. Interestingly enough, since that VM... Read More...
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Training vs Inference – Numerical Precision

July 26, 2022
Part 4 focused on the memory consumption of a CNN and revealed that neural networks require parameter data (weights) and input data (activations) to gener... Read More...
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Training vs Inference – Memory Consumption by Neural Networks

July 15, 2022
This article dives deeper into the memory consumption of deep learning neural network architectures. What exactly happens when an input is presented to a neura... Read More...
23 min read

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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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“.