During AI Field Day 4, VMware stepped up to showcase how Intel AMX CPUs can be leveraged for Large Language Models (LLM) on vSphere, presenting a CPU-centric approach to AI tasks commonly handled by GPUs. As discussed by Gina Rosenthal, Earl Ruby of Broadcom (VCF) demonstrated the potential of Intel’s AMX technology in both older Ice Lake and newer Sapphire Rapids systems, achieving model fine-tuning and inference without the use of GPUs. This approach champions using CPUs for AI when feasible, reserving GPU use for scenarios demanding lower latency, and highlights the compatibility requirements for effectively implementing AI with Intel’s hardware in a vSphere environment.
Intel Modestly Lays Its Case for AI — Tech Arena
As Allyson Klein writes, Intel addressed their strategy for AI workloads at AI Field Day 4, discussing the strengths of CPUs in AI inference and the growing role of accelerators—a notably humble stance for the tech giant in the face of intensified competition in the AI silicon sector. With a focus on where CPUs excel and integrated AI acceleration technologies like Intel AMX, Intel is positioning themselves to cater to mid-market organizations looking for an accessible AI solution. Amid a rapidly evolving landscape, Intel’s efforts to balance core CPU advancements with accelerator development highlight their pursuit to maintain relevance and leadership within the AI optimization space.
Intel Day Kicks Off at AI Field Day 4
As AI Field Day 4 continues into day two, Gina Rosenthal turns her attention to the capabilities of Intel Xeon CPUs in AI, particularly in inference workflows, as presented by Ro Shah, AI Product Director at Intel. Shah delineated the growing trend towards generative AI with large models, while recognizing that enterprises are more inclined to adopt smaller language models, positioning Xeon as a suitable solution for these scenarios. Intel’s commitment to serving the AI market extends beyond hardware, showcasing their strategy of enabling AI across the board through developer support, tool extensions, and a strong partnership ecosystem.
The Year of AI at AI Field Day 4
AI Field Day returns on February 21st-23rd, giving a broad perspective on AI’s foundational technologies in a year touted to be pivotal for artificial intelligence. Attendees can expect in-depth sessions with industry giant Intel as well as key players VMware by Broadcom, Qlik, Hammerspace, Solidigm, VAST Data, and many more. This event explores revolutionary AI applications and their infrastructure demands, and will be broadcast live for a global audience. Watch live on LinkedIn and the Tech Field Day website and catch the recordings on YouTube!
Solving Environmental Sustainability Problems at the Edge With Intel’s Elastic and Energy Proportional Edge Computing Infrastructure
Sulagna Saha reviews the Intel Energy Elastic Systems. The blueprint unveils a futuristic system design that will be able to intelligently offload demanding workloads to stations with greater access to renewable energy, and help cut back dependency on non-renewable power supply. The result is eco-friendly deployments at the edge. Read about it at Gestalt IT or watch the presentation here on the website.
Network Field Day – Day 2 – Intel
In this YouTube video, Jordan Villarreal takes viewers on a journey into the world of Intel’s IPU and data center compute load balancing technology as part of Networking Field Day 33. Learn about AI networking and more by watching this reaction video recorded on-site!
AI Workload Networking With Intel
Tim Bertino discusses the challenges and requirements of networking for AI workloads, as presented by Intel Corporation at Networking Field Day. Intel highlights the difficulty in monitoring and predicting issues in AI networks, emphasizing the need for advanced anticipation and pre-emptive solutions. The article also illustrates Intel’s architectural perspective, favoring the use of Ethernet for managing these high-demand networks.
Network Field Day 33 – Day 0
Jordan Villarreal shares his excitement about Network Field Day 33 in this YouTube video. With leading names such as Cisco, Nokia, Fortinet, and Intel as well as new faces like Graphiant and RG Nets, the event provides significant insights into the ever-evolving networking domain. The topics range from versatile network solutions to edge gateways and from switching platforms to the anticipated wildcard entry of Intel.
Finishing Strong With Networking Field Day 33
Tech Field Day is back with the final Networking Field Day event of 2023, live on October 25 and 26, and featuring presentations from Graphiant, Cisco, RG Nets, Nokia, Fortinet, and Intel. Tom Hollingsworth and company anticipate exciting updates on growth, debut products, and new technology advancements in areas like SD-WAN, SASE, optical networking, digital experience monitoring, and sustainable networking solutions. The event will stream live on LinkedIn and the Networking Field Day 33 event page, encouraging audience engagement and inquiries.
It’s an Edge-Y NUC World
Mark Houtz had the opportunity to attend the first Edge Field Day where he heard from Scale Computing, Avassa Systems, Mako Networks, Opengear, and more. One topic that stood out was the use of Intel NUCs in edge deployments. While Intel has decided to exit the PC business, other vendors like Simply NUC are stepping in to continue the NUC legacy. Read more about Mark’s experiences at Edge Field Day and thoughts about the demise of the NUC.
Hardware Still Has to Matter
Ned Bellavance took a special interest in Alastair’s Cooke point of view at the most recent Intel Tech Field Day Showcase where he focused on the relevance to hardware today. People tend to think of cloud as an abstracting hardware, but Ned believes quite the opposite. He says that we should embrace the public cloud so the more and varied hardware will now be closer to the consumer to help them transform their application. For more from Ned about the Intel Showcase, visit the Gestalt IT website.
The Perfect Configuration Gives You the Edge
Melissa Palmer writes on the Gestalt IT site about the latest Intel Tech Field Day Showcase! She goes into detail on a route to the perfect configuration that is set on building the optimized sum of gains extracted out of all the components that make it. Intel brings their performance and several other critical features to this architecture! Check out more from Melissa on the Gestalt IT website!
Compute Express Link – Enabling Your Next-Gen Data Center
Max Mortillaro attended the most recent Gestalt IT Showcase with Intel and now gives his thoughts on their latest technology; Compute Express Link. CXL has been on Max’s radar since early 2019 and it continues to impress him with the merging of their generation data center. He is most excited about the CXL specification that is supported for Type 3 devices, particularly storage-class memory. Take a look on the Gestalt IT website for more from Max.
CXL Will Be Truly Composable Infrastructure
Writing on behalf of Gestalt IT, Chris Hayner talks about Intel’s newest technology; Compute Express Link (CXL). He goes into detail on this next gen technology that is intended to connect computer resources in the datacenter together. Check out Chris’ thoughts on a promised composable infrastructure from Intel’s CXL.
Tech Field Day 26- Event Preview
Girard Kavelines is back for October’s Tech Field Day! Check out his most recent post where Girard gives us a quick preview on what presentations to look forward to at the upcoming event.
ML Commons Unveils MLPerf Training V2.0 | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 29, 2022
On the latest Gestalt IT Rundown, Tom Hollingsworth is joined by Stephen Foskett where they dive into the newly released ML Commons MLPerf Training v2.0 results. This benchmark suite measures how fast systems can train models to a target quality metric. NVIDIA, Intel Habana, Google, and Graphcore all submitted at least partial results. How do we make sense of all this ML training hardware? Head to GestaltIT.com for shownotes.
Deep Learning Training With Intel Habana Gaudi
In this post, Liselotte Foverskov, a Field Day delegate, gives her insight on the presentation from Habana, an Intel company, at this past AI Field Day. Check out her thoughts on Habana’s developmental focus of disruptive solutions that are shaping the future of AI and Deep Learning.
Training More for Less With Habana Gaudi
In this post from Gestalt IT, Sulagna Saha talks about Intel’s Habana Labs presentation on Gaudi at May’s Ai Field Day. She goes into detail on how this AI training processor makes DL model training affordable for a change. Check out Sulagna’s thoughts here!
AI Field Day Returns With a Focus on Data
AI Field Day returns in May! More applications are bringing machine learning capabilities, and companies are looking at deploying their own artificial intelligence applications as well. Stephen Foskett talks about which companies will be presenting and what we can look forward to. Check out his thoughts here!
Exploring Intel’s New Storage Solution From Tech Field Day 25
Charles Uneze joined us as a delegate for this past Tech Field Day! In this post, he talks about the latest innovative technology from Intel. Take a look here!
