[LIVE CHAT] Enabling Real AI

We are coming to the end of the live part of the Crowdchat! To our hosts and everyone here: What are your key takeaways? What is your main piece of advice for companies excited about adopting AI? #GetWorkloadAgile
https://www.crowdchat.net/s/161e9

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Rodrigo Gazzaneo

fantastic stories on #AI is enabling human progress and we need it right now more than ever

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Christopher Huggins

thank you all, really enjoyed this. One I hear time and time again: if you are embarking on your AI journey, focus on getting your data right. This whitepaper may help: https://www.dellemc.com/en-gb/collaterals/unauth/w...

https://www.dellemc.com/en-gb/collaterals/unauth/white-papers/products/storage/dellemc-ai-strategy-white-paper.pdf

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Janet Morss

Not sure where to go from here? Collaborate with experts in a Dell Technologies Customer Solution Center http://delltechnologies.com/csc - remote access is available.

Customer Solution Centers
Our Customer Solution Centres can help you to plan and implement your vision making your ideas a reality.

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Paul Brook

Key AI take away: Understand what problem your AI is trying to solve, plan for scale and bake security in at the start. Document and understand what you have built. Really: Buy a tool to do this if you can. The do it all again...The ID the next problem. Repeat @delltechforum

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paul calleja

Key take way is that AI use cases are every ware, helping science and technology in ways we could not think possible just a few years ago.

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paul calleja

The only barrier is making the technology accessible to non IT domain experts. Dell is helping in a significant way to make the technology affordable and more importantly easier to use

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Paul Brook

Yes: Talk to people, Dell people, colleagues, business partner. Collaboration is so key great point @jamonascone

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Dell Technologies Forum

We would like to thank our hosts and participants for a lively and insightful discussion today! Please do check in later, as we will keep this chat open for 48 hours and you can still share your #AI stories or ask the #DellTech team any questions. https://www.crowdchat.net/s/261ek

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Rodrigo Gazzaneo

@jamonascone and booking a Virtual Executive Briefing for strategic conversations with our leaders and experts

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Paul Brook

All: Must say @paulcalleja2 is spot on - your imagination is the only real limit.

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Paul Brook

So many folks feed back how great these Virtual Exec briefings are @vGazza

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Brian Farrell

for non-domain experts - it is possible to work with very familiar interfaces and remove (outsource) the complexity beneath. @DellTechForum

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Dell Technologies Forum

#DellTech is dedicated to getting #AI into the hands of businesses and institutions of all sizes so that they can harness the power of their data to make the world a better place. Please watch this video, which was part of our launch: https://youtu.be/bZSNBtq52dI #GetWorkloadAgile

Make Artificial Intelligence Real with Dell Technologies
Dell Technologies is dedicated to bringing the power of AI to anyone who wants to use it. Learn how our portfolio of products and solutions is designed to ge...

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Rodrigo Gazzaneo

@PaulBrookatData great to hear that Virtual Executive Briefings are delivering positive experiences and the right conversations

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Janet Morss

Collaborate with experts in the HPC & AI Innovation Lab http://delltechnologies.com/innovationlab

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Access the Dell EMC High Performance Computing (HPC) and AI Innovation Lab to test cutting-edge technology and optimize application solutions.

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Janet Morss

Join the Dell Technologies HPC Community and find even more experts http://www.dellhpc.org

Dell Technologies HPC Community
The Dell Technologies HPC Community is a worldwide technical forum that fosters the exchange of ideas among researchers, computer scientists, technologists, and engineers and promotes the advancement of innovative, powerful HPC solutions.

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Janet Morss

@jamonascone The lab posts testing results at http://www.hpcatdell.com and code is available at https://github.com/dellemc-hpc-ai

http://www.hpcatdell.com

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Janet Morss

Just in case you were looking for shortcuts (lol) https://www.dellemc.com/hu-hu/collaterals/unauth/i...

https://www.dellemc.com/hu-hu/collaterals/unauth/industry-reports/solutions/5_ways_get_ready_machine_learning.pdf

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Suhela Dighe

Can you tell use @vGazza where people where the #DellTech Executive Briefing Centers are located around the world and how customers can book them?

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Janet Morss

Can schedule an engagement here https://www.delltechnologies.com/en-us/what-we-do/...

Executive Briefing Program
Our Executive Briefing Program can help you create a digital strategy; designed to ensure you thrive now and in the future.

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Rodrigo Gazzaneo

@suzyspaatz Sure! We are a global program with presence in Europa, Asia and Americas. Major centers in UK, USA, Singapore, India, Greater China, Japan. And while travel restrictions are in place, all experiences are available on virtual experiences.

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Suhela Dighe

Virtual EBC experiences, what a great idea.

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Rodrigo Gazzaneo

@suzyspaatz we are leading transformation for the #FutureOfWork and taking content and engagement everywhere. #RemoteWork is the new normal and #AI conversations can't wait.

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Dell Technologies Forum

If you missed the global launch last week, you can also re-view the first Crowdchat in the series here: https://www.crowdchat.net/chat/c3BvdF9vYmpfMzExMg=...

[LIVE CHAT] Real AI with Dell and Intel
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Paul Brook

And a great 'Ask Better Question' book from Graham Hogg: seeingaroundcorners.com

Seeing Around Corners
The book by Graham Hogg, who is passionate about helping teams achieve foresight, by connecting their questions to data to business value, and sharing those insights across organisational silos. This will drive growth for organisations and build the ...

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Dell Technologies Forum

The launch Crowdchat with live video was actually on June 2 here: https://www.crowdchat.net/chat/c3BvdF9vYmpfMzEwNg=...

[LIVE CHAT] Enabling Real AI with Dell
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Martin Hilgeman3

That is exactly what #AI is doing for #HPC, makeing the technology more accessible by using modern platform tools to interact with data

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Christopher Huggins

what #AI is doing for #HPC but also what #HPC is doing for #AI eg. many modern day parallel programming methods & tools

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paul calleja5

we see Cancer Experts in the hospital use AI to help diagnose patient medical images, spotting cancer cells better than a human can !!

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Janet Morss

It is amazing how much AI has impacted the speed of disease detection in X-ray images to augment care. https://www.cio.com/article/3304250/the-new-radiol...

The New Radiology Assistant: Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence is poised to transform many healthcare specialties, assisting physicians with demanding diagnostic scenarios. That’s the case in the field of radiology.

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Paul Brook3

Team: Is it still a thing that the expertise is a bottleneck? Getting the right people is still hard? Or does opening up platforms support getting more folks 'AI ready- ?

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paul calleja

@PaulBrookatDatyes people skills are the hardest thing to find

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paul calleja

making platforms more accessible is the first step in hiring more people

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Brian Farrell

The actual deployment of these platforms requires high end skills in many cases - but providing standardised interfaces that data scientists are familiar with makes their use of the systems much easier once they are deployed. @PaulBrookatData

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Paul Brook

Technology does seem to benefit from making it more accessible, going to throw out the challenge: Can anyone think of an example: Mine is the Beowulf cluster :-)

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Paul Brook

Brian: Yes - that makes sense, is so much more than build it and they will come, these announcements are about enable it and they will build capability

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paul calleja

Our main focus now is how we package complex AI application layers and HPC tools within easy to use environments

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paul calleja

today we are focusing on using Openstack to package complex HPC, AI and data analytics services consumable to non domain experts

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Brian Farrell

The new ability to begin a HPC / AI journey on VMware environments can be a real catalyst to further democratising HPC engagement in Industry I reckon.

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We have seen astronomers use AI to re-analyse old data and find much more information than they thought they had

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Paul Brook

I love this use case re-use old data can you tell me any more?

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paul calleja

yes people are now finding there is a lot more information in the data than they thought was there

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Paul Brook

great case for retaining data due to this re-useability- is that a word?

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Christopher Huggins

are you speaking with NASA? https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/nasa-tak...

NASA Applying AI Technologies to Problems in Space Science
Could the same computer algorithms that teach autonomous cars to drive safely help identify nearby asteroids or discover life in the universe? NASA scientists are trying to figure that out by partnering with pioneers in artificial intelligence (AI) t...

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Rodrigo Gazzaneo

same happened in O&G revisiting old seismic data with new #HPC capabilities

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Paul Brook

@vGazza Yes I have read about this love the idea of hidden depths in Data, something we all believed to be true is now being proved

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Janet Morss

@vGazza https://insidehpc.com/2019/10/dell-emc-to-deploy-w...

Dell EMC to Deploy World's Largest Industrial Supercomputer at Eni - insideHPC
Today Eni announced plans to deploy the world's largest industrial supercomputer at its Green Data Center in Italy. Called "HPC5," the new system from Dell EMC will triple the computing power of their existing HPC4 system. The combined machines will ...

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Rodrigo Gazzaneo

@PaulBrookatData yes, makes us reconsider the term "old data" right?

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Rodrigo Gazzaneo

@jamonascone "data is the new oil" literally!

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Ivan Renesto

Thanks @jamonascone, and it is great that ENI supercomputer contributed and is contributing to fight against COVID-19 https://www.eni.com/en-IT/media/press-release/2020...

Eni's HPC5 supercomputer contributes to Coronavirus research
The supercomputing infrastructure will support researchers in virus analysis

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Christopher Huggins

@IvanRenesto you are absolutely right, and so many more! https://www.sanger.ac.uk/news/view/uk-launches-who...

https://www.sanger.ac.uk/news/view/uk-launches-whole-genome-sequence-alliance-map-spread-coronavirus

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paul calleja4

and of course we are now applying AI to real world. real time hospital data to help understand how to improve the treatment plans for Covid patients

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Christopher Huggins

honored to be part of this journey: https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cambridge-rese...

Cambridge research team working towards vaccine against COVID-19
The race is on to find a vaccine against the new COVID-19 coronavirus. Professor Jonathan Heeney explains why a cautious approach is needed and how his team is

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paul calleja6

Cambridge have a large number of AI projects, running across digital humanities, life science and medicine, astronomy and engineering

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Janet Morss

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/harnessing-ai-...

Harnessing AI in the fight against COVID-19
AI assisted COVID-19 diagnostic and prognostic tool could improve resource allocation and patient outcomes.

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Suhela Dighe

What's interesting to me is also the speed with which Uni of Cambridge is standing up these #AI projects.

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Christopher Huggins6

Here is an awesome example on how Dr Tom Connor, Public Health Wales, unleashes the power of genomics for national health by applying advanced HPC & AI methodologies : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWaVtJ1aIIk&fe...

Unleashing the power of genomics for national health
Dr. Thomas Connor and the UK National Health Services team is working in collaboration with Cardiff University and others to capitalize on advances in high p...

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Suhela Dighe

Thanks for sharing! #AI seems to be a key technology for the health sector. Speeding up new drug development, clinical trials and much more.

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paul calleja1

being able to efficiently share GPU resources via virtualised serviced makes this technology much more accessible

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Our next discussion point: How are organisations using AI today? What have been the biggest hurdles for organisations and how have they been addresses? https://www.crowdchat.net/s/461av

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Maurizio Davini

@DellTechForum• Dell Technologies, Intel and University of Pisa are collaborating in Distributed AI on HPC Clusters using Slurm and Docker.

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Maurizio Davini

• Dell Technologies, Intel and University of Pisa are collaborating on using FPGA and OpenVino Tool to test AI workloads

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Paul Brook

@md310363 How is open Vino for you

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Maurizio Davini

• Omnia project ( from Luc Wilson and John Lockman) from Dell Technologies HPC enable users to deploy Slurm and Kubernetes on Dell EMC PowerEdge servers running an RPM-based Linux OS giving the possibility to run traditional HPC simulation together with AI containers. Lo

dellhpc/omnia
Software tools for standing up Slurm/Kubernetes clusters on Dell EMC PowerEdge servers with existing RPM-based OS images - dellhpc/omnia

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Maurizio Davini

@PaulBrookatData Testing is successful until now. Not very easy to use

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paul calleja

This is a really interesting initiative

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Ivan Renesto

@md310363, please, can you tell us more about this?

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Maurizio Davini

These is one of our latest results https://www.dellemc.com/resources/en-us/asset/whit...

https://www.dellemc.com/resources/en-us/asset/white-papers/products/ready-solutions/pisa-vmware-white-paper.pdf

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Maurizio Davini

We are trying to integrate HPC and AI on VMware Vsphere Infrastructure

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Paul Brook

Hi @md310363 Often the things that are not easy become over time really valuable, how does open VINO behave for your, what do you like about it?

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Janet Morss

Find out more about how the University of Pisa has been using VMware for HPC and AI https://www.dellemc.com/resources/en-us/asset/cust...

https://www.dellemc.com/resources/en-us/asset/customer-profiles-case-studies/products/ready-solutions/dell-pisa-vmware-case-study.pdf

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Maurizio Davini

• University of Pisa, Dell Technologies Intel and Excelero ( www.excelero.com) are collaborationg on NMmeOF storage technologies for AI

Excelero - NVMesh: Lowest-latency Distributed NVMe Block Storage
Local NVMe performance at data center scale through true convergence. Software-defined block storage for Cloud and Enterprise applications at any scale.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5z0j8ILhG7o

VMware Agents of Change: Maurizio Davini, a CTO Reinventing the Centuries-Old University of Pisa
This initiative celebrates smart IT leaders who challenge the status quo. As CTO of one of the world’s oldest universities, Maurizio Davini is responsible fo...

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We have examples from kinds of industries, too. For example in manufacturing, Otto Motors make robots a reality. Watch the customer story here: https://www.delltechnologies.com/en-gb/customer-st... #industry40

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Janet Morss

University of Pisa also has papers published here: https://www.dell.com/support/article/en-us/sln3115...

https://www.dell.com/support/article/en-us/sln311501/high-performance-computing?lang=en

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Maurizio Davini

• Virtualization with VMware Vsphere7 with BitFusion will be our next testing environment

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Dell Technologies Forum

Amazing examples! What hurdles did you face, if any?

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Janet Morss

a few examples of ways companies are leveraging Dell + VMware for AI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B61jAr4p-XU&fe...

AI and HPC with Dell Technologies and VMware customers
Otto Motors, University of Pisa, Epsilon and Zenuity are tackling autonomous driving, image recognition in healthcare, customer marketing and communication a...

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Christopher Huggins

@md310363 curious about your next steps with VMWare, Vsphere 7 and BitFusion, we're seeing increasing interest from our customers at this level..

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Rodrigo Gazzaneo

@chris_d_huggins nice to be hearing from Maurizio on how @DellTech and @VMware are enabling #AI and #HPC modernization for @Unipisa

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Great comment below by @paulcalleja2 in case you didn't see it: We have seen astronomers use AI to re-analyse old data and find much more information than they thought they had.

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Janet Morss

I've heard many have challenges with the AI skills gap - not geniuses like @paulcalleja2 and @md310363

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Dell Technologies Forum

One more example in the health case sector is the NHS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWaVtJ1aIIk&fe... It is wonderful to see from all your examples how technology is used for good!

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Maurizio Davini

Integrating AI ready Containers side to side with Virtual Machines in VCloud Foundation 7 will help

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Ivan Renesto

@chris_d_huggins, it is great to see how our universities are having more and more an enterprise-oriented approach to technology, preserving their focus on research and supporting local companies!

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Christopher Huggins

@IvanRenesto absolutely agree: the University of Pisa response to Covid was a nice example of enterprise oriented approach btw: https://www.unipi.it/index.php/english-news/item/1...

Coronavirus: The new measures of the University of Pisa to contrast and contain the spread of the Coronavirus over the entire national territory
The University of Pisa promptly implements the measures of the Presidential Decree of the Council of Ministers (DPCM) dated 9 March 2020. It includes the suspension of curricular training, the closure of libraries and study rooms and the rescheduling...

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Suhela Dighe

So impressive to see all these case studies and how AI is being used for good

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