Tag: cloud
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Dedicated Region Cloud at Customer – Planning
Now that I have had a couple of go-rounds with the OCI Dedicated Region Cloud at Customer (DRCC), I would like to think I have a pretty good understanding of how to effectively plan for an implementation. A DRCC is mostly like any other OCI region. The thing that makes it different is that it…
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An AI journey continues – configure the scheduler
Now that the infrastructure has been deployed (software defined network, OKE, H100, storage, etc) it was now time to configure the scheduler (run:ai). The first question posed, post installation, “do we need any special configuration for the network operator in order for the scheduler pods to leverage RDMA?” Would we need Single Root I/O Virtualization…
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An AI journey continues – GPU Deployment!
With our OKE cluster successfully deployed, it was time to start working on the GPU node deployment. Our GPU node/s have a requirement to run Ubuntu 22.04 because of the support for the NVIDIA GPU Operators that are required by the run:ai scheduler. For optimal performance between the GPU worker node instances, we needed to…
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An AI journey continues – Network design
I wish I had been brilliant enough to have planned out the network deployment without issue but as the saying goes….we live and we learn. Here are some key networking decisions that will need to considered: After running through all of the pre-requisites for the run:ai cluster installation. We made sure that we had an…
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An AI journey begins – choosing a scheduler
As a veteran of the technology industry, I have experienced the ebbs and flows of the “next big thing”. E-Commerce, blockchain, cloud computing, IoT, edge computing, quantum computing, big data, etc. The current buzz or “next big thing” is Artificial Intelligence (AI). I recently had an opportunity to deploy an AI architecture. I thought I…
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Zero Trust Packet Routing – A use case
Part 3 of the Zero Trust Packet Routing (ZPR) blog post is to explore potential use cases. As fortune would have it, ZPR came up during a spirited discussion with some security colleagues. We were discussing CIS compliance and management access to an application stack. To kick start the discussion, I used the CIS compliant…
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