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NetApp ONTAP AI Is One Of The First Reference Architectures With Mellanox Spectrum Switches

Mike McNamara
Mike McNamara
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NetApp ONTAP AI Is One Of The First Reference Arch - Inline Image 1Assembly and integration of off-the-shelf deep learning (DL) and machine learning (ML) compute, storage, networking, and software components can increase your system’s complexity and lengthen deployment times. As a result, your valuable data science resources are wasted on systems integration work. It’s difficult to achieve predictable and scalable artificial intelligence (AI) performance, and keeping a DL and ML infrastructure up and running requires you to have deep, full-stack AI expertise.

NetApp can help you fully realize the promise of AI by simplifying, accelerating, and integrating your data pipeline with the NetApp® ONTAP® AI proven architecture. ONTAP AI is powered by NVIDIA DGX servers and NetApp cloud-connected all-flash storage.

And it keeps getting better. NetApp ONTAP AI is now supported and has been tested with Mellanox Spectrum Ethernet Switches. With NetApp, you can now deploy the first reference architecture for AI and machine learning (ML) with NVIDIA DGX-1 servers and Mellanox Ethernet switches.

This architecture consists of nine DGX-1 servers with a single NetApp AFF A800 all-flash storage system, and you get perfectly linear performance scalability of up to 72 GPUs. Mellanox Spectrum Ethernet Switches with Onyx OS give your system high bandwidth and low latency. You get full Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE) feature support so that you can use RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) for GPU interconnect.

NetApp ONTAP AI Is One Of The First Reference Arch - Inline Image 2Based on the validation testing results, the ONTAP AI architecture delivers excellent training and inferencing performance. The results also demonstrate adequate storage headroom to support additional DGX-1 systems that you might want to deploy. You can easily and independently scale your compute and storage resources from half-rack to multirack configurations and achieve predictable performance to meet any of your ML workload requirements. For more details about the testing, read the NetApp Verified Architecture report.

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Mike McNamara

Mike McNamara

Mike McNamara는 NetApp의 제품 및 솔루션 마케팅 분야의 고위 경영진이며 25년이 넘는 데이터 관리 및 클라우드 스토리지 마케팅 경험을 보유하고 있습니다. 10년 전 NetApp에 입사하기에 앞서, McNamara는 Adaptec, Dell EMC, HPE에서 근무했습니다. McNamara는 자사 클라우드 스토리지 오퍼링 및 업계 최초의 클라우드 연결형 AI/ML 솔루션(NetApp), 유니파이드 스케일아웃 및 하이브리드 클라우드 스토리지 시스템 및 소프트웨어(NetApp), iSCSI 및 SAS 스토리지 시스템 및 소프트웨어(Adaptec), 파이버 채널 스토리지 시스템(EMC CLARiiON)의 출시를 이끈 핵심 팀 리더입니다.McNamara는 Fibre Channel Industry Association에서 마케팅 의장을 역임한 경력 외에도 Ethernet Technology Summit Conference Advisory Board와 Ethernet Alliance에서 회원으로 활동하고 있으며, 업계 저널의 고정 기고자로 활동하며 여러 행사에서 연설을 맡기도 했습니다. McNamara는 또한 FriesenPress에서 'Scale-Out Storage - The Next Frontier in Enterprise Data Management'라는 책을 출간했으며, Kapos가 선정한 눈 여겨 볼 상위 50대 B2B 제품 마케터에 이름을 올렸습니다.Mike McNamara의 모든 게시물 보기

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