From right, Bill Wagner from Bright Computing, Carlo Ruiz, NVIDIA, and Rich Brueckner, insideHPC
During ISC 2019, we met up with Bright Computing CEO, Bill Wagner and NVIDIA’s EMEA Head of AI Datacenter Solutions to discuss a revolutionary new solution for AI that features NVIDIA DGX servers managed by Bright Cluster Manager.
During our interview, Bill and Carlo explain how this game-changing solution exists as a shared infrastructure approach that is owned and managed by IT (i.e., AI as a Service) and is a preferred strategy for enterprises committed to AI development.
Bright and NVIDIA have also composed a detailed white paper that highlights how NVIDIA DGX Servers managed by Bright Cluster Manager provide the enhanced technology and support for today’s most demanding AI workloads. This new solution delivers the perfect balance of increased concurrency for handling data science workloads, the massive compute requirements associated with those workloads, and the seamless management of all resources across the HPC cluster.
With the NVIDIA/Bright Solution, HPC Users benefit from:
- Solid scale-up architecture for handling data-/compute-intensive workloads
- Easy cluster setup and provisioning
- End-to-end cluster monitoring, health checking, and automated updates
- Automated deployment and configuration of HPC workload managers, Kubernetes, machine learning/deep learning frameworks and libraries, and NGC containers
- Ability to run all the above HPC workloads on the same DGX cluster
As organizations continue to leverage GPUs for HPC applications and also host AI workloads on existing HPC clusters, a growing trend is to add DGX servers to these clusters alongside traditional CPU-based Linux servers. Because Bright Cluster Manager is platform independent, combining DGX servers with servers from another vendor is easy and seamless, resulting in a single unified cluster that Bright can centrally manage and monitor.
For both DGX POD and DGX servers added to existing clusters, the combined power of the DGX system with Bright Cluster Manager translates to:
- Faster time to value for your AI projects
- Bigger AI projects and larger models through effective DGX clustering
- Reduced complexity, reduced administrative burden, and maximum resource utilization
- Flexibility and extensibility, from desk to data center, to cloud
Once thought of as an exclusive tool used by elite members of scientific organizations, AI has moved to the mainstream and is now viewed as an essential business and research tool by agencies, companies, and institutions worldwide. For those looking for a highly flexible, scalable, and extensible AI compute solution, a shared infrastructure built on clusters of high-performance NVIDIA DGX servers delivered as a service and managed by Bright Cluster Manager is the solution of choice.
Download the white paper: “Realize the Massive Potential of Your AI Infrastructure: Bright Cluster Manager on NVIDIA DGX Systems”
