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Digital Transformation Through Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning, Deep Learning, AI on the Edge, AI Infrastructure
Bill Wong
Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics Practice Leader
Dell Technologies
Dell / NVIDIA AI Roadshow
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Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Deep
Learning
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) is human intelligence mimicked by
machine algorithms, examples: Chess, Go, Facial Recognition
- Machine Learning (ML) is a subset of AI algorithms to parse
data, learn from data, and then make a determination or
prediction, example: Spam Detection, Preventative
Maintenance
- Deep Learning (DL) a subset of machine learning algorithms
that leverage artificial neural networks to develop relationships
among the data, examples: Driverless Cars, Cyber-Security
Accelerators
Algorithms
Big Data
Traditional Programming
Machine Learning
AI TECHNOLOGY ENABLERS
WHY AI AT THE EDGE MATTERS
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AI AT THE EDGE TODAY
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CORTI.AI
High volume,
continuous "data
in motion" from
multiple sensors
Store, blend and
manage more
time-series data
Use of multiple
analytics
techniques
Integration with
operational
systems
More data More complexity
Bidirectional
communication
and control
of endpoints
More automation
Distributed
analytics (edge)
IOT ANALYTICS CHALLENGES
Consumption
Tier *
* Key components enabled for end-to-end self-service
Sources
ERP1
ERP2
CRM
Chat Logs
Machine
Logs/IoT
Social Media
Services Tier *
Execution
Tier *
Complex Event
Processing
Rules Based
Decisions
Data Quality
Processing
Microservices
APIs
Streaming
Analytics
Data
Warehouse
OLAP
In-Memory
R/T Cache
NoSQL
Metadata, Security & Governance
Pub-Sub
Data
Movement*
Shared Data Platform *
IT Managed/
Enterprise
Business
Managed
Workspaces
MDMStreaming
Batch
Micro-Batch
Mobile
Notifications 5
Advanced
Analytics
• Predictive
• Prescriptive
• Machine
Learning
Applications
• Data Driven
• Mobile
• Analytical
Business
Intelligence
• Reporting
• Ad Hoc
• Discovery
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Supporting the Digital Transformation at Dell Technologies
Raw
Processed
Integrated
Business Challenges
• Business acquisition/merger introduces:
• Multiple systems of record
• Fragmented view of the customer
• Lack of timely information
• Non-optimized infrastructure
Results
• One data platform that delivers the right
data, to the right place at the right time to
address business problems
• 360 degree view of the customer
• Enabled to deliver real-time customer
segmentation and predictive analytics
• Dell IT Proven Program – IT
Infrastructure built using Dell Servers
and EMC Storage solutions
Data Warehouse
DATA LAKE FOR ADVANCED ANALYTICS
NVIDIA EGX AI PLATFORM
Higher Performance Edge Computing Platform
Surveillance validation
lab locations
• Durham, NC
• Limerick, Ireland
• Bangalore, India
Lab advantages:
• Global, dedicated
Surveillance labs
• Dedicated Surveillance
Engineering team
• More than 50 years
combined test
experience
• Test-to-fail philosophy
reduces risk
End-to-end
validated
solutions built on
proven
technology that
will speed up
your time to
adoption
THE DELL EMC DIFFERENCE
DELL TECHNOLOGIES IOT
SOLUTION | SURVEILLANCE
Simplified surveillance for a complex world
Integrated from camera to cloud
Users
Field Sensors
• Agent Video Intelligence: automates video analysis to detect and
alert for events of interest, expedite search in recorded video and
extract statistical data from the footage captured by surveillance
cameras.
• BriefCam: provider of Video Synopsis® and Deep Learning solutions
for rapid video review and search, real-time alerting and quantitative
video insights. Transforms raw video into actionable intelligence.
• Deep Vision AI: highly customizable “deep learning” platform that
provides, facial and object recognition, as well as behavioral
analysis. Used in more specialized situations where customer has
unique models such as for uniform detection, sanitary processes,
foreign objects in food processing as a few examples.
DELL VISION ANALYTICS PARTNERS - SAMPLE
- The Toronto-Waterloo Corridor is the second
largest start-up and technology hub in North
America, second only to Silicon Valley.
- The Corridor is home to 5,200 start-ups, 15,000
tech companies and 200,000 tech workers.
- The region’s strongest subsectors were
FinTech, AI, manufacturing and robotics, and
life sciences and health.
- Most Patent Intensive region in Canada
– 11x the national average
- The Technology Triangle, which consists of the
cities of Cambridge, Kitchener, and Waterloo,
has become a preferred destination for
technology start-ups, incubators, accelerators,
and young inventors.
- High technology in the “Triangle” is supported
by three acclaimed universities, a college, and
more than 150 research organizations.
- World’s largest concentration of mathematical
and computer science students
- More than 22% of all spin-off Canadian
information technology companies have
gotten their start in University of Waterloo
incubator programs.
AI IN WATERLOO
Opportunity
Material handing automation (which can account for up to 70% of
the final cost of good) offers the potential for significant
performance improvements and allows facility operators to focus
more resources on core, value-added operations.
Solution
OTTO, the self-driving vehicle, is designed exclusively for material
transport in industrial environments such as manufacturing
facilities and warehouses.
Benefits
OTTO Motors is democratizing robotics technology for their
customers, and making it possible for companies of all sizes to
adopt self-driving vehicles in their work environments.
“We have, over the last few years, evolved
significantly into an autonomous systems and
software company, and with that, really taken the
promise of data collection and data analysis to
heart. I’d say that it’s something we’ve rapidly seen
the benefit from, and are rapidly encouraging the
adoption of.”
- OTTO CTO -
DRIVEN TO BE DISRUPTIVE
Expectations
Plateau of
Productivity
Peak of Slope of EnlightenmentInnovationTrigger Trough of Disillusionment
Inflated Expectations
“Narrow" AI is becoming
better than humans at
defined tasks. "General" AI
is still a long way off.”
Time
Plateau will be reached
less than 2 years
2 to 5 years
5 to 10 years
more than 10 years
Deep Learning
Infrastructure Transformation
Autonomous Vehicles
“AI, one of the most
disruptive classes of
technologies, will become
more widely available due to
cloud computing, open
source and the “maker”
(developers, data scientists
and AI architects) community.
While early adopters will
benefit from continued
evolution of the technology,
the notable change will be its
availability to the masses.
As of July 2019
AI PaaS
Artificial General Intelligence
Machine Learning
NLP
FPGA Accelerators
GPU Accelerators
DNN ASICs
Quantum Computing
Neuromorphic Hardware
Computer Vision
Speech Recognition
HYPE CYCLE FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
TOP 10 TYPES OF HARDWARE FOR AI DELIVERY*
1. Processors (CPU, GPU, FPGA, ASIC)
2. HPC / Supercomputer Infrastructure
3. Communication Network
4. Personal Devices
5. Connected Home Devices
6. AR / VR Head-Mounted Displays (HMD)
7. Drones
8. Robotics
9. Automotive
10.Sensors and Application Components (audio, camera, LiDAR, etc.)
*The Business Impact and Use Cases for Artificial Intelligence, Gartner, 2017
Accelerate
computational
performance
AI-enabled endpoints
AI-enabled autonomous endpoints
Flexibility Efficiency
AI ACCELERATORS
Nvidia and Microsoft launch Azure supercomputing instance – Nov. 18, 2019
https://venturebeat.com/2019/11/18/nvidia-and-microsoft-launch-azure-
supercomputing-instance/
Deep Learning Analytics – GPU, Graphcore
Performance
$
Inference
Data Analytics
Multi-App HPC / ML / DL
C6420pC6420p
R840
DS8440
8+
4
2 - 3
1
Solution price $
C4140C4140
GPU DB Acceleration, AI/ML R940xa
SDS/VDI R740XDR740XD
1:1 CPU/GPU ratio
Highest density of
CPU and memory
with 2 GPUs
GRAPHCORE IPU
XILINUX FPGA INTEL FPGA
NVIDIA GPU
INTEL CPU AMD (Future)
GRAPHCORE IPU
XILINUX FPGA INTEL FPGA
NVIDIA GPU
INTEL CPU AMD (Future)
Cost
DELL TECHNOLOGIES – AI COMPUTE PLATFORMS
Differentiated Features Benefits
Up to 10 Accelerator cards
including Industry leading
NVIDIA Telsa V100 GPUs
and Graphcore Colossus C2
IPU cards (Post RTS)
Exceptional horsepower in
a 4U chassis
Supports up to 205W CPUs
with accelerators in 35C
environments
Thermally unconstrained
provides flexibility for a
variety of configurations/
environments
Up to 10 drives of local
storage (NVMe and
SAS/SATA)
Accelerated access to
training data
8 x PCIe Gen3 Extensive I/O options for
network/IO traffic
DSS 8440 with
NVIDIA GPUs
DSS 8440 with
Graphcore IPUs
A DYNAMIC MACHINE LEARNING AND HPC
PLATFORM
Oppenheimer Equity Research, Server Market Oct-1, 2018
Tractica, Deep Learning Chipset, 2018
$60B AI Server TAM
A new AI Server
Infrastructure Deployment
GPU Virtualization Market TAM
$3B ARR Virtualization
$4.5B ARR Orchestration/Analytics
2016 2025
$0.16B
$0.35B $2.3B
$9.8B
28x
CPU
GPU CPU
GPU
FPGA
ASIC
AI Semiconductors massive growth is
Revolutionizing the AI infrastructure
AI INFRASTRUCTURE ECONOMICS
vComputeServer
Hypervisor
50%
vGPU
30%
vGPU
20%
vGPU
GPU
Maximize Efficiency
Use Case Creative & Technical
Professional
Knowledge
Worker
AI, Deep
Learning, & Data
Science
Compute Type Client Computing Client Computing Server Workloads
Software Quadro Virtual Data
Center Workstation
GRID Virtual PC
GRID Virtual Apps
vComputeServer
NVIDIA GPU VIRTUALIZATION
Ethernet
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GPUAAS
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SHARE SNAPSHOT
Dell Technologies' 2018 AI revenue
grew 72.6% to $1.89 billion, from
$1.10 billion in 2017. Dell revenue in
the AI market is primarily from
infrastructure (server and storage).
*IBM's AI revenue grew 19.0% to $2.58 billion, from $2.17 billion in 2017.
Revenue is divided across software, hardware, and services, with services
and hardware significantly larger than software ($349.6M).
• Eliminate inefficient islands of storage
– Infrastructure consolidation for both clinical and non-clinical workloads
• Scales as data growth and number of instruments,
modalities, and digital clinical applications
increases
• Enable better information sharing
• Accelerate data analytics to gain new insight
• Extends into the cloud
• Prepared for next generation analytics
Dell EMC
Data Lake
Caffe2
DATA LAKE STORAGE PLATFORM
The Marketplace Continues To Evolve
Data science and machine-learning platforms are
defined as:
• A cohesive software application that offers a mixture
of basic building blocks essential both for creating
many kinds of data science solution and
incorporating such solutions into business
processes, surrounding infrastructure and products.
Firms assessed:
• Leaders: KNIME, Alteryx, SAS, RapidMiner, H2O.ai
• Challengers: MathWorks, TIBCO Software
• Visionaries: IBM, Microsoft, Domino Data Lab,
Dataiku, Databricks
• Niche: SAP, Angoss, Anaconda, Teradata
“By 2019, startups will overtake Amazon, Google, IBM
and Microsoft in driving the artificial intelligence
economy with disruptive business solutions.” Gartner
DATA SCIENCE AND ML PLATFORMS
Data Environment Challenge Best Practices
Data Quality Inconsistently formatted across
the organization, often contains
errors and could create biases.
Minimize duplication. Implement Data
Governance strategy and tools to cleanse,
validate and enforce data quality.
Data Silos Inability to leverage data across
the enterprise for analytics
Develop/engineer a common data repository
to access for advanced analytics
New Sources of Data Machine/Deep Learning often
requires large amounts of data,
from various sources, and
formats (unstructured).
Develop a data integration strategy and use
tools to process unstructured data that
requires additional processing, cleansing,
and/or normalization.
Supporting Near Real-
time Requests
Data repositories are challenged
scaling transactional and query-
based workloads together
Consider translytical databases to address
near real-time data response times for
advanced analytical applications.
Privacy, Security, Ethics,
Auditability
Often not considered at design
time and leads to governance
exposures.
Adoption of design principles to provide data
transparency for key stakeholders and
accountability for governance/regulation
organizations.
AI DATA DEVELOPMENT BEST PRACTICES
IDC 2018
DATA SCIENTIST CRITERIA FOR
AI INFRASTRUCTURE
WORLD-CLASS INFRASTRUCTURE
IN THE INNOVATION LAB
Zenith
• TOP500-class system based on Intel Scalable Systems
Framework (OPA, KNL, Xeon, OpenHPC)
• 424 nodes dual Intel Xeon Gold processors, Omni-Path
• +160 Intel Xeon Phi (KNL) servers.
• Over 1 PF combined performance!
• #396 on Top500, 1.86 PF theoretical peak
• Lustre, Isilon H600, Isilon F800 and NSS storage
• Liquid cooled and air cooled
Rattler
• Research/development system with Mellanox, NVIDIA and
Bright Computing
• 88 nodes with EDR InfiniBand and Intel Xeon Gold
processors
• 32x PowerEdge C4140 nodes with 4x NVIDIA GPUs
Other systems
• 32 node AMD cluster, storage solutions, etc.
13K ft.2 lab, 1,300+ servers, ~10PB storage dedicated to
HPC in collaboration with the community
Workstations Servers Block Storage Unstructured
Data Storage
Hyper-converged Ready Solution for ML
Ready Solution for DL
Video Analytics,
Splunk, and
Streaming
Ready Solutions
Ready Bundle for
Deep Learning - NVIDIA
Ready Bundle for
Deep Learning - Intel
Ready Bundle for Machine
and Deep Learning - Hadoop
The fastest platform,
exclusively for deep
learning model training. A
complete solution including
GPU aware cluster
management & the widest
set of supported modeling
frameworks in the portfolio
Industry first exclusively Intel
optimized deep learning
platform that will evolve into
a fully integrated software
environment for optimizing
the complete range of Intel
based processors &
acceleration hardware.
Multi-purpose Intel Xeon
Hadoop based platform for,
deep learning, machine
learning, universal analytics
& ETL. Choice of value-
added modular software
SOLUTIONS FOR EVERY AI USE CASE
SickKids / Dell Confidential
Compute/
Storage/
Networking
Applications/
Use Cases
Processor/
Accelerator
Frameworks &
Middleware
Management/
Orchestration
Bright ML
Xeon PhiFPGA
R840 C6420 R540
In-Memory
Analytics Inference
C4140
R740
C6320p
Training
DELL EMC OPEN ARCHITECTURE AND ECOSYSTEM
Xeon Xeon Xeon FPGA Adapter
Consumption
Model
Math
Libraries
On-prem Solutions
Crest Family
Cauldron- POC
Bitfusion
T640
GPU NvLink-GPUGPU
- Comprehensive and Scalable AI/Analytics Platform Portfolio
- Workstations, Servers, Clusters, Storage, Networking
- Infrastructure and Data Science and Analytics Expertise
- HPC and AI Innovation Lab
- IoT / Intelligent Video Analytics Lab
- Solution-based Offerings
- Pre-configured AI Ready Offerings
- IoT / Safety and Security and
Thermal Vision Solutions
- GPU Virtualization
- ML Platforms
Infrastructure
Scalability
Reduce
Complexity
Address
Demand
Partner
Ecosystem
Cost
Effective
THE VALUE OF DELL AND NVIDIA FOR AI
INFRASTRUCTURE
- Appendix -
Dell Technologies
AI and Data Analytics Solutions
Dell Technologies AI and Data Analytics Solutions
AI / Machine Learning / Deep Learning
• Domino Data Science Platform Design Document
• HPC for AI and Data Analytics Ready Architecture
• Retail Loss Prevention Ready Solutions
• DataRobot Reference Architecture
• H2O AI Reference Architecture
• Kubeflow Reference Architecture
• OneConvergence Dkube Reference Architecture
• Iguazio Reference Architecture
• Deep Learning with NVIDIA Ready Solutions
• Isilon with NVIDIA DGX-1 Reference Architecture
• Isilon with NVIDIA DGX-2 Reference Architecture
• Isilon with Dell Precision 7920 Data Science Workstation Reference Architecture
• Isilon with Dell EMC DSS8440 Reference Architecture
• Noodle.ai (OEM) Solution Bundle
IoT / Streaming / Machine Data Analytics
• IntelliSite (OEM) Thermal Detection Solution
• Retail Loss Prevention Ready Solutions
• Dell IoT Safety and Security Portfolio
• Real-Time Data Streaming Ready Architecture
• Splunk Enterprise on Dell EMC Infrastructure
• Streaming Data Platform
• ElasticSearch (OEM) Solution Bundle
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Augmented Analytics and Data Warehouse
• Spark on Kubernetes
• Kinetica (OEM) Solution Bundle
• ThoughtSpot (OEM) Solution Bundle
• Pivotal Greenplum
• Dell Boomi
Data Lake / Unstructured Data Infrastructure
• Microsoft SQL Server 2019: Big Data Cluster Ready Solution
• Cloudera Hadoop Ready Architecture
• Hortonworks Hadoop Ready Architecture
• Kubernetes Containers with Diamanti (OEM) Solution Bundle
• Grid Dynamics Reference Architecture
• Red Hat OpenShift Reference Architecture
HPC Ready Solutions
• HPC Digital Manufacturing
• HPC Life Sciences
• HPC Research
• HPC BeeGFS Storage
• HPC Lustre Storage
• HPC NFS Storage
• HPC PixStor Storage
*Note, some products can deliver capabilities that address multiple use cases
Product Offerings and Technical Collateral for Analytical Use Cases