Keynote-Challenges in Deploying Large GPU Clusters in the Cloud – Azure Networking
The challenges in deploying large GPU clusters in the cloud are often written about or discussed by all the major GPU or major cloud players. Although complicated, GPU clusters have been built out for many years and the industry is maturing around the fundamental design and interconnect schemes.
What may be more challenging is providing the right set of customer features and controls to make moving to the cloud more attractive than relying solely on an enterprise GPU based AI (Artificial Intelligence) solution. Microsoft will discuss some of the most important concepts to make moving AI to the cloud as close to seamless as possible.
Narayan Annamalai (Azure Core Partner) will discuss several concepts that make AI in the Cloud as flexible as computing or storage in the cloud. By leveraging many years of learnings, AI infrastructure can be initiated in either multi-cloud or hybrid environments on day 1. Following certain development and deployment principles, AI applications can scale up or down based more on demand and less on technology limitations. AI can enjoy the same level of Security, Privacy and Access across the globe as any other cloud-based solution. Most importantly, as AI solutions are integrated with new and novel applications, the cloud can respond in almost real time to any scale requirement whether regional, cross regional or even global.
Please join Narayan Annamalai to hear about how the industry best in class technologies, concepts, and solutions can help accelerate customer adoption of AI, while minimizing your exposure to risks associated with the total ownership of AI solutions.
Narayan Annamalai is the Head of Products for Networking Services in Azure. Narayan has been working at Microsoft since 2006, with the last 13+ years spent on cloud networking. Narayan has a bachelor’s degree in computer science and a master’s degree in Networking and Telecommunications from the University of Texas, Dallas. Narayan started as an engineer in the Microsoft Dynamics team before moving over to Azure to pursue their passion for networking. Narayan shifted to the PM discipline in 2013 to be closer to the end-user and enable them to achieve their full potential in Azure. Narayan routinely presents in EBCs (Executive Briefing Communications) and events on Networking Futures and Advancements. Narayan is also a leadership sponsor for a number of top customers in Azure.
