The @HPCpodcast’s “Industry View” feature addresses major issues in the world of HPC, AI, and other advanced technologies through the lens of industry leaders. Our special guest today is Paul Bloch, President and Co-founder of DDN, the high performance storage and intelligent data platform company.
AI runs on massive amounts of fast and reliable data, which makes topics related to storage systems especially important in the AI era – which has been driven, of course, by HPC-class technologies.
In this discussion, Paul, Shahin and Doug discuss:
– Storage for AI workloads, using AI for high performance storage
– DPUs – specialized processors that offload networking, security and storage tasks from the CPU and GPU
– The future of AI storage
Paul Bloch of DDN
– Technical challenges and optimizations in AI data management
– Alignment with streaming, HPC and accelerated computing
– Pilot to production, training to inference: technical and operational challenges
– Dynamic storage solutions, GPU utilization optimization
– Sovereign AI, data sovereignty
– DDN’s relationship with NVIDIA
And we discuss the legacy of DDN (started in 1998) in HPC and how the company transitioned into the AI-at-Scale era.
Join us!
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