So You'd Like an Easy Button for ML/DL...Look No Further Than Cnvrg.io on Dell
Mon, 08 Aug 2022 17:00:07 -0000
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I consult with various customers on their AI/ML/DL needs while coming up with architectures, designs and solutions that are durable, scalable, flexible, efficient, performant, sensible and cost effective. After having seen perhaps 100 different opportunities I have some observations and yes suggestions on how to do things better.
Firstly, there’s an overwhelming desire for DIY. On the surface the appeal is that it’s easy to download the likes of tensor flow with pip, add some python code to point to four GPUs on four different servers, collect some data, train your model and put it into production. This thinking rarely considers concurrency, multi-tenancy, scheduling, management, sharing and many more. What I can safely state is that this path is the hardest, takes the longest, costs more, creates confusion, fosters low asset utilization and leads to high project rate failures.
Secondly most customers are not concerned with infrastructure, scalability, multi-tenancy, architecture and such at the outset. They are after thoughts and their main focus on building a house is let’s get started and so we can get finished sooner. We don’t need a plan do we?
Thirdly most customers are struggling so when they reach out to talk to their friends down the road they’re all moving slowly, doing it themselves, struggling so it’s ok right?
I think there’s a much better way and it all has to do with the software stack. A cultivated software stack that can manage jobs, configure the environment, share resources, scale-out easily, schedule jobs based on priorities and resource availability, support multi-tenancy, record and share results, etc….is just what the doctor ordered. It can be cheap, efficient, speed up projects and improve the success rate. Enter cnvrg.io, now owned by Intel, and you have a best of breed solution to these items and much more.
Recently I collected some of the reasons why I think cnvrg.io the the cultivated AI stack you need for all your AI/ML/DL projects:
- Allows for reuse of existing assets
- Can mix & match new w/ old
- Any Cloud model
- Multi-cloud
- Hybrid
- OnPrem
- Public cloud
- Fractional GPU capability for all GPUs
- Support multiple container distros
- Improves productivity of:
- Data Scientists
- Data Engineers
- Leads to more efficient asset utilization
- Relatively affordable
- The backing of intel
- Partnered w/ Dell
- Supports multi-tenancy well
- Capability to build pipelines
- Reuse
- Knowledge management and sharing for AI
- Improves AI time to market
- Improves AI project success
- Makes AI easy
- Low code play
- Can construct and link data pipelines
Cnvrg.io is a Dell Technologies partner and we have a variety of solutions and platform options. If you’d like to hear more please do drop me an email at Mike.King2@Dell.com