SwiftStack announced
that it will be demonstrating its customer-proven, edge-to-core-to-cloud
solution that supports large-scale Artificial Intelligence/Machine and
Deep Learning (AI/ML/DL) workflows in Booth No. 216 at The AI Summit in
San Francisco's Palace of Fine Arts September 25 and 26.
The
emergence of AI/ML workloads has created a new set of challenges for
organizations, while the rise of GPU computing is enabling massive
parallelism and several petaflops (floating-point operations per second)
of computational power. It has been difficult for these environments to
build and manage a storage infrastructure that provides appropriate
scale and concurrent performance. Among other verticals, the
transportation vertical has been heavily disrupted by AI/ML. Autonomous
vehicles (AV's) have become the flagship use case for transformational
$10T Mobility-as-a-Service market. Automakers, fleet operators and
software-defined car companies are racing to build AV's at various SAE
(Society of automotive engineers) levels - Level 2+ which is partial
automation to Level 5 which is full automation. However, building
software-defined autonomous vehicles is difficult. Every neural net in
the software stack needs to handle thousands of conditions and
geolocations. Data, access to large data-sets (storage and I/O
infrastructure) and data management takes the center stage for a
successful, production grade AV platform.
SwiftStack's
AI/ML solution delivers massive storage parallelism and throughput
needed for ingest, training and inferencing; a scale-out global
namespace for access to data whether on-premises or in one or more
clouds; data services such as tagging, search, and metadata management
to support AI/ML workflows; and Kubernetes and TensorFlow support.
Additionally, the solution extends to public clouds to take advantage of
cloud-bursting and economies of scale, while data is secured
on-premises.
"The
AI Summit is an ideal venue for showcasing how our unique solution
overcomes the limitations of traditional storage architectures to
deliver the performance, scale and value required of modern AI/ML
workloads," said Shailesh Manjrekar, Head of AI/ML Solutions Marketing
and Corporate Development at SwiftStack. "Unlike many proof-of-concept
solutions, our multi-cloud AI/ML data management solution has already
been successfully deployed in real-world use cases like autonomous
vehicles and as such can provide attendees with an in-depth
understanding of how it can be deployed to solve the most-pressing
issues facing those trying to get out in front of this disruptive
market."
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