Optimizing AI Workloads with NVIDIA GPUs, Time Slicing, and Karpenter

Optimizing AI Workloads with NVIDIA GPUs, Time Slicing, and Karpenter

Maximizing GPU efficiency in your Kubernetes environment In this article, we will explore how to deploy GPU-based workloads in an EKS cluster using the Nvidia Device Plugin, and ensuring efficient GPU utilization through features like Time Slicing. We will also discuss setting up node-level autoscaling to optimize GPU resources with solutions like Karpenter. By implementing these strategies, you can maximize GPU efficiency and scalability in your Kubernetes environment. Additionally, we will delve into practical configurations…

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Celebrating Artificial Intelligence, Its History and Evolution

Celebrating Artificial Intelligence, Its History and Evolution

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Appreciation Day, celebrated on July 16th every year, recognizes the positive contributions of AI technology to humanity and encourages discussions about its ethics. This event is an opportunity to celebrate AI’s history and evolution, with Cisco playing a significant role. AI Beginnings AI’s story spans several decades, beginning in the 1930s with Alan Turing’s visionary work which laid the foundation for modern computers. Turing’s 1948 report titled “Intelligent Machinery” further contributed, with…

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Celebrating Cisco’s AI Differentiation and Our Engineers During World Creativity & Innovation Week

Celebrating Cisco’s AI Differentiation and Our Engineers During World Creativity & Innovation Week

World Creativity & Innovation Week annually celebrates problem-solving within the realms of economic, social, and sustainable development. It provides an ideal platform to showcase Cisco’s Global Partner Engineer ecosystem, which holds a central role in communicating Cisco’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) differentiation. Our technical community is at the forefront, driving the development and deployment of AI-driven solutions. These solutions empower customers to revolutionize their businesses, elevate operational efficiency, and unlock fresh avenues for growth and innovation….

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Build for Better Code Challenge Focuses on AI and Sustainability

Build for Better Code Challenge Focuses on AI and Sustainability

During our 10 years of DevNet celebratory webinar on March 14th, Shannon McFarland, VP of Cisco DevNet announced a coding challenge for the DevNet community. We call it the Build for Better Code Challenge and this year’s topics are AI and sustainability. We give you a bit more than a month, from March 14th to April 22nd to build an application on AI or sustainability or both that will hopefully amaze the judging panel and…

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The AI Threat Landscape: Tech Companies and Governments Must Unite Behind Cybersecurity in 2024

The AI Threat Landscape: Tech Companies and Governments Must Unite Behind Cybersecurity in 2024

Tech companies and governments will join forces to develop advanced AI detection systems, ensuring a safer online environment. Human ingenuity boosted by AI capabilities offers new pathways to address complex societal problems—such as more efficient agricultural production, medical research, and sustainable energy production. AI may even harness the power of networks at scale to finally tip the balance in favor of defenders over cyber threat actors. However, to realize this enticing vision, more work must…

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Accessing the Power of AI-led Digital Transformation with API Abstraction

Accessing the Power of AI-led Digital Transformation with API Abstraction

This year, like no other, we will see organizations tap into APIs to sidestep the complexity and cost of developing and maintaining their own AI solutions and models. In pursuit of digital transformation, enterprises are harnessing the capabilities of data, automation, and innovation to create more value and competitive advantage. AI services, such as biometric access control, content generation, image analysis, and conversational agents, offer immense potential for enhancing business processes. With their proliferation, there…

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