James Brogan

Came to VMware with Bitfusion acquisition.
Help customers understand and use remote, virtual GPUs.

Belief system increasingly centered around chocolate.

[James Brogan @brogan_record]

@hari5611 @VMwarevSphere Yes. This paper gives the steps in addition to a thorough TKG discussion.
https://t.co/r3gILORg6Q
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[Harikrishnan T @hari5611]

@VMwarevSphere The last time I used bitfusion was for an use case with Enterprise PKS to run containerized GPU applications. Is there a support with TKG clusters currently?

[James Brogan @brogan_record]

@VMwarevSphere Bitfusion is more like a rental agency with a garage full of Maserati's or passenger buses. It lets a lot of people use vehicles a lot more economically.
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[James Brogan @brogan_record]

@VMwarevSphere A10: It would be a lot of fun to compare Bitfusion to a Maserati or something, but like other infrastructure technologies, a truer analogy isn't as exciting, even though it may be extremely useful or important.
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[James Brogan @brogan_record]

@VMwarevSphere Bitfusion is more like a rental agency with a garage full of Maserati's or passenger buses. It lets a lot of people use vehicles a lot more economically.
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[James Brogan @brogan_record]

@VMwarevSphere A10: It would be a lot of fun to compare Bitfusion to a Maserati or something, but like other infrastructure technologies, a truer analogy isn't as exciting, even though it may be extremely useful or important. So...
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[James Brogan @brogan_record]

@VMwarevSphere It can back up and restore the usage database,
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[James Brogan @brogan_record]

@VMwarevSphere It displays allocation and utilization statistics, history, and charts. It can terminate sessions, set limits on clients, set idle timeouts -- all to help with fair use of the resources.
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[James Brogan @brogan_record]

@VMwarevSphere Another interesting benefit is give a large partition, say 75% of a GPU, to a long running application, but leave 25% of the capacity to smaller applications that can sneak in without waiting for the long-running app to complete
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[James Brogan @brogan_record]

@VMwarevSphere A paper we released with GA gives a detailed inference use case: https://t.co/fQXD6AYTIE #vSphereChat

[James Brogan @brogan_record]

@VMwarevSphere d) they can use more GPUs than they could previously afford; e) they can experiment with more GPU models than they would previously have access to (e.g. T4 vs. V100)
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[James Brogan @brogan_record]

@VMwarevSphere But there are benefits for the users too.
Users a) don't have to coordinate with each other to share GPUs; b) they don't have to shut down machines to pass GPUs to other machines; c) they don't have to port their applications; #vSphereChat

[James Brogan @brogan_record]

@VMwarevSphere It's hard to get good numbers, but on average they would seem to sit idle 85% the time. With Bitfusion GPU sharing, everyone gets what they need. #vSphereChat

[James Brogan @brogan_record]

@VMwarevSphere A5: The principal problem is that you can't buy GPUs for everyone who wants them, who needs them. They are expensive and tied to a single machine. Until now, they were hard to share. #vSphereChat