vSphere ML Accelerator Spectrum Deep Dive –NVIDIA AI Enterprise Suite

vSphere allows assigning GPU devices to a VM using VMware’s (Dynamic) Direct Path I/O technology (Passthru) or NVIDIA’s vGPU technology. The NVIDIA vGPU technology is a core part of...
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#47 – How VMware accelerates customers achieving their net zero carbon emissions goal

In episode 047, we spoke with Varghese Philipose about VMware’s sustainability efforts and how they help our customers meet...
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#46 – VMware Cloud Flex Compute Tech Preview

We’re extending the VMware Cloud Services overview series with a tech preview of the VMware Cloud Flex Compute service....
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VMware Cloud Services Overview Podcast Series

Over the last year, we’ve interviewed many guests, and throughout the Unexplored Territory Podcast show, we wanted to provide...
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Research and Innovation at VMware with Chris Wolf

In episode 042 of the Unexplored Territory podcast, we talk to Chris Wolf, Chief Research and Innovation Officer of...
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vSphere 8.0 Update 1 Enhancements for Accelerating Machine Learning Workloads

Recently vSphere 8 Update 1 was released, introducing excellent enhancements, ranging from VM-level power consumption metrics to Okta Identity Federation for...
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My Picks for NVIDIA GTC Spring 2023

This week GTC Spring 2023 kicks off again. These are the sessions I look forward to next week. Please leave a...
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Discover what’s new in vSphere 8.0 U1 and vSAN 8.0 U1

We (the Unexplored Territory team) work with the vSphere release team to get you the latest information about the new releases...
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Sub-NUMA Clustering

I’m noticing a trend that more ESXi hosts have Sub-NUMA Clustering enabled. Typically this setting is used in the High-Performance Computing...
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VMware Sessions at NVIDIA GTC

Overcome Your AI/ML Challenges with VMware + NVIDIA AI-Ready Enterprise Platform (Presented by VMware, Inc.) Tuesday, Sep 20, 8:00 PM...
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vSphere 8 and vSan 8 Unexplored Territory Podcast Double Header

This week we released two episodes covering the vSphere 8 and vSan 8 releases. Together with Feidhlim O’Leary, we discover all...
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Unexplored Territory – VMware Explore USA Special

This week Duncan and I attended VMware Explore to co-present the session “60 Minutes of Virtually Speaking Live: Accelerating Cloud Transformation.”...
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New vSphere 8 Features for Consistent ML Workload Performance

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 this article, I want...
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Training vs Inference – Network Compression

This training versus inference workload series provides platform architects and owners insights about ML workload characteristics. Instead of treating deep neural...
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How to Write a Book – Show Up Daily

During the Belgium VMUG, I talked with Jeffrey Kusters and the VMUG leadership team about the challenges of writing a book....
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Training vs Inference – Numerical Precision

Part 4 focused on the memory consumption of a CNN and revealed that neural networks require parameter data (weights) and input data...
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Training vs Inference – Memory Consumption by Neural Networks

This article dives deeper into the memory consumption of deep learning neural network architectures. What exactly happens when an input is...
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Unexplored Territory Podcast Episode 19 – Discussing NUMA and Cores per Sockets with the main CPU engineer of vSphere

Richard Lu joined us to talk basics of NUMA, Cores per Socket, why modern windows and mac systems have a default...
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