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Hi, I'm Mike Mcmar from NetApp and I'm in our AI solutions marketing group. I'm joined with Chris Weber. Chris is an AI solutions technical lead. So, just recently NetUp announced NVIDIA DGX Super Pod, a certified solution that will turbocharge your AI and HPC workloads with high performance NVMe storage from NetApp with the BGFS parallel file system. So Chris, let me ask you, can you summarize what it is that we tested and why BGFS? >> Yeah, so Mike, we tested NetApp's second generation BGFSbased scalable building block architecture uh to become the certified storage in Nvidia's super pod solution. Uh as to why BGFS, it's our parallel file system of choice. It gives us extreme performance. It has a nice modern user space architecture. It's really easy to use and manage and it allows us to avoid any hardware vendor lock in with the parallel file system. >> What workloads Chris are ideal for this solution?>> Uh so yeah uh any AI research or medium to largecale AI training jobs. Uh but really you know once your work has scaled up to the point where your compute resources where they've scaled across multiple nodes uh but those nodes are still accessing the same files in a massive data set. That's where our super pod BGFS solution really shines. >> Nice. Chris, what would you say are the key benefits of this solution? >> Yes. First off, having this pre-validated, pre-ested architecture means you can get up and running as quickly as possible. Uh, NetApp's proven reliability means that once you're up and running, you're going to stay up and running. Uh, just in the off chance that something does go wrong or maybe you just need some help along the way, NetApp's this entire storage stack in the Super Pod solution. And finally, since it's a scalable architecture means that in the future, if you want to add to this, it's just easy to expand and grow your solution by just adding more storage building blocks. >> That's awesome. Thanks, Chris. Thanks, Chris. Thanks, Chris. And this is just one offering in a broad industry-leading portfolio of solutions with NVIDIA that includes NetUp on AI, both the reference architecture and the integrated solution options and NVIDIA DGX foundry with NetUP. To learn more, visit netApp.comai. Thank you and have a great day.
Learn about the testing and certification of NetApp all-flash NVMe storage with BeeGFS parallel file system for NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD. Learn how this AI solution can turbocharge your biggest AI and HPC workloads.