My Sessions at VMware Explore 2023 Las Vegas

Next week we are back in Las Vegas. Busy times ahead with meeting customers, old friends, making new friends, and presenting a few sessions. Next week I will present...
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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 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...
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vSphere ML Accelerator Spectrum Deep Dive – GPU Device Differentiators

The two last parts reviewed the capabilities of the platform. vSphere can offer fractional GPUs to Multi-GPU setups, catering to the...
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vSphere ML Accelerator Spectrum Deep Dive for Distributed Training – Multi-GPU

The first part of the series reviewed the capabilities of the vSphere platform to assign fractional and full GPU to workloads....
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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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Machine Learning on VMware Platform – Part 3 – Training versus Inference

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

In this week’s Unexplored Territory Podcast, we have Mazhar Memon as our guest. Mazhar is one of the founders of VMware...
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MACHINE LEARNING ON VMWARE PLATFORM – PART 2

Resource Utilization Efficiency Machine learning, especially deep learning, is notorious for consuming large amounts of GPU resources during training. However, as...
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Machine Learning on VMware Platform – Part 1

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

I recently received a few questions from customers migrating between clusters with different CPU socket footprints. The challenge is not necessarily...
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