Continuing the Network Transformation Journey

As consumer and business applications generate even more data, companies need high powered computing (HPC) for transformation, movement and storage. Just some of the workloads that are driving increased need for HPC are large data sets, analytics, AI, video processing, big data processing, machine learning, packet processing, etc.

Learn how to shift IT strategy from modernization to transformation. Organizations must prepare for enormous data storage requirements. Find out how Intel and its new Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors and Intel® SSDs are helping companies prepare to thrive.

Come learn about how to get started programming with Open Programmable Acceleration Engine (OPAE). OPAE is a part of the Acceleration Stack for Intel® Xeon® CPU with FPGAs, a collection of software, firmware and tools, designed and distributed by Intel, to make it easier to develop and deploy Intel FPGAs for workload optimization in the data center.

OPAE aims to simplify FPGA programming for the application developer by providing a lightweight, consistent API across FPGA products and platforms. In this tutorial, learn about the architecture behind OPAE, common uses and steps for creating your first OPAE program. Start developing for Intel FPGAs with OPAE today: https://01.org/OPAE

In today’s hyper-competitive, data-dependent world, businesses must compete smarter to differentiate effectively, deliver new products and see faster results. Cutting-edge business analytics and artificial intelligence are fundamental to achieving this. One of Intel’s analytics experts will describe how real-world enterprises harness the power of analytics and the latest technology platforms like the Intel® Xeon® Scalable platform to drive business growth and innovation.

Hybrid cloud is catching the eye of Enterprise IT with roughly 70% of U.S. organizations considering strategic deployments in the next 24 months (IDC 2016). However, building a successful hybrid cloud strategy can be daunting. Attend this session to hear from one of Intel’s enterprise cloud experts who will discuss considerations for effective deployments, including the latest technology advancements, like the Intel® Xeon® Scalable platform, and how to guide your organization to realize its full benefits.,

State-of-the-art remote workstation experiences are now possible on any device, using infrastructure as a service (IaaS) hosted on the Intel® Xeon® processor E3 v5 family with Intel® Iris™ Pro graphics. Intel’s on-chip graphics technology powers a broad range of workstation-class applications for engineers, designers, and architects. Simple access is now available to companies of all types and sizes, on a trial basis and beyond. Leverage the capabilities of remote workstations with support provided by IMSCAD, a global consultant in graphics virtualization technology.

Intel® Nervana™ neon™ is a reference deep learning framework targeting ease of use, extensibility, and optimal performance on all hardware. neon supports many commonly used layers and offers a Model Zoo to help you accelerate development of your own models. This webinar will provide an introduction to using deep learning in data science workflows, as well as to using Intel® Nervana™ neon™, including demonstrations on network design, model training, and inference.

Applied analytics requires scientists to be aware of both the intricacies of the statistical tools at their disposal as well as the domain-specific idiosyncrasies of their data in order to create a successful analytical solution. This webinar will discuss examples of characteristics of data that enable and disallow certain data science techniques.

The unprecedented growth in the number of connected devices has spurred new opportunities for analytics ranging from consumer devices that monitor health to self-driving cars. The Internet of Things has also led to new computing paradigms which leverage both cloud and edge technologies to push analytics closer to users who need real-time access. This webinar explores implications of the growth of IoT on analytics, and the distributed architectures needed to support the vast amounts of data generated by these devices.

New developments in AI are more exciting than ever. The next big wave promises to provide insights at a greater accuracy to help solve some of the world’s biggest challenges. In this webinar Pradeep will discuss how Intel is driving AI forward with industry’s most comprehensive road map portfolio to deliver end-to-end AI solutions, and collaborating with thought leaders to address the technical challenges posed by AI.

Deep neural networks have been used successfully in domains like speech recognition, computer vision, and natural language processing. Deploying a successful deep-learning solution requires high-performance computational power to efficiently process vast amounts of data. This webinar will share insights on the effectiveness of different neural network architectures and algorithms.

Hyperconverged infrastructure is the hottest trend in IT. In this fascinating discussion, we will explore how to achieve truly adaptive infrastructure using complete hyperconvergence which extends the benefits of simplicity and speed to more applications and use cases. We will describe how to fully unlock the potential of Hyperconvergence as part of a comprehensive data center strategy with Cisco HyperFlex Systems, powered by Intel Xeon Processors.

Today’s Data Center is facing rapidly changing requirements. New data intensive applications – such as Big Data, Analytics, Video Streaming, and Data Protection – are driving new application architectures which demand new hardware solutions. This webinar will outline this new wave of data intensive applications and on how successful data centers are hosting, managing, and delivering high quality SLAs for these new applications.

In this webinar we discuss various DL applications and the optimized Intel DL environment including hardware, software, and tools. Ravi and Andres will explain the difficulty in scale training across multiple nodes and what Intel is doing to improve scaling efficiency. Various hyperparameters use to train DL networks are explain with a particular focus on Caffe.

The industry landscape is changing, and especially so with big data. In session we will be discussing recent big data trends including real-time streaming analytics and how big data technologies are going to play a significant role in data analytics. We will cover Cisco solutions differentiation and how an industry leading partnership with Intel helps to unlock value from your big data.

Netflix engineers were faced with a challenge: how do you protect the privacy of your customers while serving over a third of all internet traffic in the US? Intel and Netflix engineers discuss the scale of the challenge and how it was solved using Intel® software ingredients and the latest Intel® Xeon® processors. This session includes details of the analysis performed, the software ingredients used, and the record setting results of this collaboration.

In this webinar, you’ll learn when and why you should accelerate your hot data by placing NVMe in the 1st tier of your data center storage. Charlie will introduce some unique NVMe server solutions designed and manufactured by AIC, explain the benefits of NVMe storage and also provide an overview of storage tiers.

Discussing the Storage Performance Development Kit (SPDK) an extension of the Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) into a storage context. We cover how SPDK got started, what the benefits are of an NVMe* polled mode driver, how SPDK supports protocols like NVMe over Fabrics and the future areas of development for SPDK.

Lustre* is the parallel file system of choice for HPC, Bio-Science, and realtime Big Data analytics with more than 50% share of HPC Storage Market. Lustre has traditionally required custom proprietary storage products to achieve required performance. Supermicro, in close partnership with the Intel® Enterprise Edition of Lustre team has introduced an open software-defined Lustre Solution based on Intel EE of Lustre, open source ZFS and open industry standard hardware, reducing storage costs by up to 90% versus traditional solutions. This webcast is a technical product and architecture overview of the Supermicro Total Solution: software, hardware and services.