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This presentation provides a technical demonstration of the Netris controller’s capabilities in automating and simulating large-scale AI networking environments. The demonstration highlights the platform’s Day Zero functionality, where network engineers can model complex topologies and validate designs before physical hardware even arrives. By utilizing Terraform and the Netris CloudSim, Saroyan illustrates how a controller can generate a digital twin of a 64-GPU cluster, defining inventory, topology, and IP address management (IPAM) for both front-end and back-end fabrics. This proactive approach allows teams to export cable maps and labels in advance, ensuring that the physical rollout is guided by a pre-validated, consistent architectural model.
The simulation phase reveals a distributed architecture where Netris agents are deployed to each virtual switch to handle configuration generation and real-time monitoring. Saroyan emphasizes that the central controller does not store or push static configuration files. Instead, the agents autonomously generate and apply the necessary code based on the modeled intent. This object-oriented approach eliminates the need for traditional configuration backups, as a replaced switch can simply re-generate its own configuration upon joining the network. The demo shows the system identifying wiring inconsistencies and automatically configuring BGP sessions and LACP bonding, effectively transforming raw hardware into a functional multi-tenant fabric with high visibility into the health and connectivity of every link.
In the final portion of the demonstration, Saroyan showcases the platform’s multi-tenant consumption model and its advanced integration with NVIDIA Bluefield DPUs. Using a server cluster template, he demonstrates how a consumer can provision isolated bare-metal environments (VPCs) with overlapping IP addresses in minutes, while the network engineer maintains control over the underlying L2/L3 VPN constructs. The demo concludes with a physical lab test involving hardware-accelerated host-based networking. By extending the EVPN-BGP control plane directly to the DPU, Netris enables seamless, wire-speed communication between bare-metal servers and virtual machines. This comprehensive automation workflow, extending from initial modeling to elastic IP provisioning and hardware-accelerated virtualization, illustrates Netris’s ability to simplify the entire lifecycle of high-performance AI infrastructure.
Personnel: Alex Saroyan
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