AI: Hardware Technology Deep Dive

•This technical session describes workload testing on a VMware® Virtual Machine leveraging Intel® Optane™ Persistent Memory on the Supermicro® BigTwin™ server.
•After a brief introduction to technology and value, test methodology and results are shared for a two key workloads representing compute and storage use cases common to many applications and how those benefit from persistent memory.

The new Intel® Optane™ persistent memory (PMem) redefines traditional architectures, offering large capacity and new memory tier at an affordable cost. The performance benefits of using persistent memory remotely over a Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) network, in place of traditional storage, can be significant. While the same persistent memory programming rules apply, there is the additional challenge of implementing that programming model over a network. Part 1- of this webinar covered the introduction to RDMA, and how RDMA can be utilized with persistent memory and demonstrated two specific methods that can be utilized today to unlock the use of persistent memory remotely. In this webinar, we go deeper in to RDMA and describe the new RPMA library that will be added to the Persistent Memory Development Kit (PMDK).

Attendees will learn about:
•an overview of existing methods of data replication
•the existing software components that can be used to build remote persistent memory access solutions
•the API developed by the PMDK team to make remote persistent memory access easy to integrate with end-user applications

* For a basic understanding of persistent memory concepts & features of the PMDK, visit the Intel Developer Zone software.intel.com/persistent_memory

Tomasz Gromadzki is a Software Architect at Intel Corp (Memory and Storage Product Group) focusing on remote persistent memory solutions development. He’s spent over 20 years on design, development and deployment of distributed control systems for industrial, power distribution and mining automation.

Steve Scargall is a Persistent Memory Software and Cloud Architect at Intel Corp. He wrote the “Programming Persistent Memory: A Comprehensive Guide for Developers” book and supports enabling & development effort to integrate persistent memory technology into software stacks, applications, and hardware architectures. He has over 19 years’ experience including his tenure at Sun Microsystems and Oracle.

In this webinar we’ll showcase the business potential Intel partners have achieved with Intel’s vision and edge AI portfolio. From industrial automation to public safety to health/medical and visual retail, we’ll look at the developer journey from Intel’s CPUs with built-in AI acceleration to specific purpose-built AI accelerators. We’ll look at how all of these platforms offer value to businesses, when incorporating cross-platform Edge AI development tools. And we’ll look behind the curtain to understand some of the technical innovations behind our deep learning accelerators. We’ll look at specific customers that have extracted the most business value in robotics, industrial manufacturing, and healthcare.

AI is unlocking new potential for every enterprise. Organizations are using AI and machine learning technology to inform business decisions, predict potential issues, and provide more efficient, customized customer experiences. The results can enable a competitive edge for the business.H2O.ai is a visionary leader in AI and machine learning and is on a mission to democratize AI for everyone. We believe that every company can become an AI company, not just the AI Superpowers. We are empowering companies with our leading AI and Machine Learning platforms, our expertise, experience and training to embark on their own AI journey to become AI companies themselves. All companies in all industries can participate in this AI Transformation.Tune in to this webinar to learn how companies are transforming their business with the power of AI and where to start.

Intel® Optane™ persistent memory (PMem) redefines traditional architectures, offering large capacity and new memory tier at an affordable cost. While your application performance can significantly accelerate by utilizing persistent memory, error handling becomes an essential aspect of the application’s overall health. The RAS ( Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability) features of persistent memory are designed to support the error-handling strategy of an application. Persistent memory vendors and platform vendors will decide which RAS features and how they will implement them at the lowest hardware levels. This webinar will provide a quick overview of the essential aspects of the RAS design that a persistent memory application developer should consider for their software.

Attendees will learn about:
•A deeper understanding of Persistent Memory data errors
•How applications can respond to Persistent Memory data errors
•How apps can detect potential platform persistent memory data loss

About the presenter - Nicholas Moulin is a cloud software architect at Intel Corporation. Since joining Intel in 2012, he has focused on enabling and developing persistent memory software for operating systems and platform firmware, and managing persistent memory hardware. Nicholas is currently working with industry partners to define and improve RAS features relevant to the persistent memory programming model.

Moderated by Usha Upadhyayula - Customer Enabling for Intel Persistent Memory products at Intel Corp.

As industries are shifting more compute to the edge to gain enhanced insights for their business, cloud-native edge deployments are key for rapid innovation and agility. Platforms built on cloud-native architectures enable businesses to rapidly introduce new services, provide operational agility, use resources efficiently, and improve the end-user experience. In this webinar, Rajesh Gadivar, VP, Data Platforms Group and CTO, Network Platforms Group at Intel Corporation will talk about the growing prominence of edge computing and how cloud-native offerings such as OpenNESS are providing a foundation for the 5G-Ready Edge. Partha Seetala, Chief Executive Officer, Robin.io, will talk about how Robin.io's edge platform has integrated OpenNESS to not only achieve cloud native capabilities but also leverage the benefits of other Intel ingredients for a highly optimized edge platform.

Oracle and Intel’s collaboration on the Exadata X8M platform with Intel® Optane™ Persistent Memory has resulted in 2.5x faster OLTP read IOPS, 10x faster OLTP latency, and 8x faster log writes. Join Subban Raghunathan, Oracle VP, Exadata Product Management and Bob Thome Oracle VP, Product Management for Database Cloud Services to learn how your enterprise can benefit from faster mission-critical OLTP and data analytics while achieving high levels of security, performance, and scalability using Oracle's Exadata X8M infrastructure. Oracle Exadata X8M, an Engineered System that can be deployed on-premises or as Cloud@Customer, is an ideal platform to meet customer challenges and offer extreme flexibility in deployment models.

Paperspace Gradient brings effortless infrastructure and lifecycle management to machine learning pipelines. Machine learning teams that use Gradient deploy more models from research to production by taking advantage of dramatically shorter development cycles. In this presentation we will demonstrate how an end-to-end machine learning pipeline can be constructed in minutes to support a state-of-the-art bacterial classifier. The technology demo features the Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ toolkit and other AI accelerated instruction available on modern Intel CPUs.

This webinar will discuss OmniSci’s vision of pioneering modern hardware and software to allow for data insights at the speed of curiosity. One catalyst for this effort is through the open data science stack of today that is clearly a de-facto platform for experimentation. Through our shared vision and partnership with Intel, we are working to advance and unify the worlds of Data Science with traditional analytics on modern hardware. We will discuss the relationship between data science applications and data discovery along with the collaboration between OmniSci and Intel to advance innovation within this ecosystem.

Organizations today are under unprecedented pressure to adapt. Digital transformation and cloud computing are essential in responding to evolving work patterns, economic realities, and unpredictable changes. Join William Giard, Chief Technology Officer, Digital Transformation - Intel and Bobby Allen, Chief Technology Officer - CloudGenera, where they will discuss how they have worked with organizations to develop an approach for their cloud transformation. During this session, you will gain a framework for how to approach cloud transformation, where you may be along your cloud transformation journey, and how Intel and CloudGenera can partner with you along your transformation journey.

The IBM Cloud Pak for Data System is an Intel-based hybrid cloud data and AI platform delivering an information architecture for AI. With IBM Cloud Pak for Data System, you can unlock the value of all your data on a unified, cloud-native platform to automate how your organization turns data into insights. IBM Cloud Pak for Data enables you to collect, organize, analyze, and infuse your data and AI to generate business insights. Intel has added a number of add-on software packages to go with IBM Cloud Pak for Data that are optimized for Intel® architecture, saving customers time in configuring and tuning software for your workloads. These add-ons are free and available as containers from the IBM Cloud Pak for Data library. They offer excellent performance and can be implemented quickly on Intel architecture.

About the Webinar:
Delivered with the 2nd generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory offers workload optimized technology that, together with the Persistent Memory Development Kit (PMDK), will help businesses extract more actionable insights from data—from cloud and databases, to in-memory analytics, and content delivery networks. This disruptive technology delivers persistence at memory bus speeds and holds tremendous promise for developing solutions that require high performance, high availability, and data persistence.

In this webinar we will provide an overview of how the popular in-memory databases and caching systems benefit from Intel® Optane™ Persistent Memory

Attendees will learn about:
•What is Persistent Memory Development Kit (PMDK)
•How PMDK helped Redis reap the benefits of the large capacity of Persistent Memory
•How PMDK helped improve operational efficiency with Twitter’s Caching system using PMDK
•How PMDK helped accelerate Apache Spark™ workloads and
•How PMDK helped Aerospike expand their hybrid memory architecture

* For a basic understanding of persistent memory concepts and features of the PMDK, visit the Intel® Developer Zone software.intel.com/pmem & https://pmem.io/

Moderated by Usha Upadhyayula - Customer Enabling for Intel Persistent Memory products at Intel Corp.

Realizing the promise of 5G requires service providers to upgrade existing networks to handle an explosion of high-definition video, voice, and data traffic. This webinar will focus on transforming the core network, a vital infrastructure element that handles the majority of traffic processing. We'll discuss the challenges and offer insight on the transition to a cloud-native core architecture to provide the agility, flexibility and efficiency that 5G services will require. Learn how strong industry collaboration and solutions built on leading Intel 5G technology are already powering 5G core network infrastructure today. Together with ecosystem partners, we'll share several edge solutions and deployments that demonstrate groundbreaking throughput performance, efficiency, overall cost savings and scale sought by service providers on the journey to deploy 5G.

The new Intel® Optane™ persistent memory (PMem) redefines traditional architectures, offering large capacity and new memory tier at an affordable cost. Your application performance can be significantly accelerated by utilizing persistent memory; however, development can be challenging. The Persistent Memory Developer Kit (PMDK) and training materials will help guide you. The performance benefits of using persistent memory remotely over a Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) network, in place of traditional storage, can be significant. While the same persistent memory programming rules apply, there is the additional challenge of implementing that programming model over a network. This webinar will start with a quick refresher on the SNIA persistent memory programming model basics, what RDMA is and how it works, and how RDMA can be utilized with persistent memory. Through the use of simple animations, the webinar will then demonstrate two specific methods that can be utilized today to unlock the use of persistent memory remotely. The session will close with a brief overview of current RDMA support in PMDK.

Attendees will learn about:
• A brief introduction to the SNIA programming model for persistent memory
• A brief introduction to RDMA, what it is and how it works
• Implementing the persistent memory programming model over an RDMA connection
• The two methods that are being utilized today to access remote persistent memory with RDMA
• Current RDMA support in PMDK

In this webinar, we'll discuss Numba's extensibility using Intel Scalable Dataframe Compiler project as a case study. Numba is a just-in-time compiler for Python that is designed for scientific, engineering, and data science applications. We will demonstrate the code autovectorization and autoparallelization, new data types such as typed lists and dictionaries, adding support for additional data types, and registering Numba extensions. We will also review best practices for incorporating Numba into a project, and when distributing code.

Join Intel & Bright Computing to dive into how to install an Intel HPC Select Solutions for HPC clustered environment using Bright Cluster Manger. Covering what benefits are built into the installation process including support for the Intel HPC Platform Specification, Intel HPC Runtime Environments and Intel Cluster Checker. Attendees will learn the steps needed to deploy a cluster using Bright Cluster Manager and should walk away with the confidence to try on their own.

Persistent memory offers Java developers design flexibility and significant performance opportunities in applications that need to store data persistently. We’ll start with a brief overview of different ways to access persistent memory from Java today. Then we’ll go into a more in-depth exploration of an open-source Java library: the Low-Level Persistence Library (LLPL). A walk through of Java code samples will give a feel for the power of using LLPL and direct memory programming for the storage of persistent data.

The Supermicro portfolio of servers and storage, with over 100 systems supporting the 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® scalable processor family, is now even better than before.

In this webinar, the product experts from Supermicro will discuss the latest upgrade in Intel Xeon technology and the impact this has on the entire X11 range of SuperServers and SuperStorage.

With Better cost-efficiency, Faster performance and Greener systems, this technology upgrade provides exponential benefits for your business. Register today, and find out more.