Cisco, HPE, Dell announce support for Nvidia’s pretrained AI workflows

Cisco sees tie-in between its AI infrastructure and NIM Agent Blueprints

Cisco is among the enterprise tech vendors to announce its support for Nvidia NIM Agent Blueprints.

“By integrating Nvidia NIM Agent Blueprints with Cisco’s AI solutions, enterprises can gain a secure and scalable platform that accelerates their journey to create and implement AI solutions that drive business value by automating processes, enhancing decision-making and enabling the development of innovative products and services, ultimately driving efficiency and profitability,” wrote Jake Katz, vice president of product management for AI infrastructure strategy with the Cisco networking group, in a blog post.

For Cisco, integrating Nvidia NIM Agent Blueprints within its AI suite is a further extension of the two vendors’ recent partnership. In February, the companies said they would Cisco and offer integrated software and networking hardware that promises to help customers more easily spin up infrastructure to support AI applications.

In terms of specific products, Nvidia’s newest Tensor Core GPUs will be available in Cisco’s current M7 Unified computing System (UCS) rack and blade servers, including Cisco UCS X-Series and UCS X-Series Direct, to support AI and data-intensive workloads in the data center and at the edge, the companies stated. The integrated package, which will be available in the second quarter, will include Nvidia AI Enterprise software, which features pretrained models and development tools for production-ready AI.

“Jointly validated reference architectures through Cisco Validated Designs (CVDs) make it simple to deploy and manage AI clusters at any scale in a wide array of use cases spanning virtualized and containerized environments, with both converged and hyperconverged options. CVDs for FlexPod and FlashStack for Generative AI Inferencing with Nvidia AI Enterprise will be available this month, with more to follow,” Cisco stated.

HPE Private Cloud AI could benefit from NIM Agent Blueprints

HPE, too, expressed its support for Nvidia’s new blueprints.