EMEA Data, AI and Analytics Summit 2022

KEYNOTE

The Next-Generation Accelerated Data Center for HPC and AI

Marc Hamilton | VP Solutions Architecture | NVIDIA

High performance computing (HPC) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are fuelling the advancement of scientific discovery and business innovation. Join Marc Hamilton of NVIDIA to learn about the next wave of technologies and innovations transforming the world of AI and computational science, from the data center to the cloud and to the edge.

On Demand: DDN EMEA User Group 2022

INTRODUCTION

Alex Bouzari | CEO | DDN
Paul Bloch | President and Co-Founder | DDN
Tommaso Cecchi | Senior Director EMEA Sales | DDN

Alex Bouzari and Paul Bloch welcome you to the DDN EMEA User Group, and provide their perspectives on why HPC needs a more integrated approach to data management at scale. Tommaso Cecchi looks at the latest DDN projects in scientific computing, AI, autonomous driving and life sciences.

SESSION #3

Building HPC & AI Systems for Scale

Bruno Lecointe | Director of Global Business AI & HPC | Atos

Atos are the lead integrator for a number of strategic HPC projects across EMEA. Bruno will share experience from DDN and ATOS, including how organisations should consider whole-system design, tightly integrated systems management and carefully planning and understanding of the differences between HPC and AI workloads and the need for modern storage architectures.

SESSION #4

DDN Vision for The Next Generation

James Coomer | Senior VP Products | DDN
Sven Oehme | Chief Technical Officer | DDN

James Coomer and Sven Oehme look at the concept of the “AI Factory” and how this important concept can help you build a much more agile data lifecycle for the next generation of AI and HPC systems. Hear about DDN’s roadmap for AI and analytics with powerful new EXAScaler features for a distributed, multi-cloud, multi-tenanted world.

SESSION #5

EXAScaler Enhancements for Performance and Ease of Use

Andreas Dilger | Lustre CTO | Whamcloud DDN

Hear the latest in Lustre developments from Andreas Dilger, the CTO of the Lustre team in Whamcloud DDN, including Lustre kernel developments, and performance and usability improvements which have been included in EXAScaler 6.1.

SESSION #6

Easy and Efficient Data Repatriation for Peta-Scale Datasets

Maria Perez Gutierrez | Solutions Engineer | DDN

Learn how to integrate cloud as a unified component of your overall data strategy. DDN’s Maria Gutierrez discussed how cloud data migration can be made easy and efficient, even for peta-scale datasets.