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Allyson Klein provides insights into how Google Cloud is reshaping its infrastructure to support the surge in AI applications, catering to the needs of the next generation of computing #GestaltIT #GoogleCloud #TechAllyson #AIFD4 #Sponsored Coverage https://gestaltit.com/sponsored/intel/allyson-klein/google-cloud-re-architects-infrastructure-for-ai-era/

Allyson Klein provides insights into how Google Cloud is reshaping its infrastructure to support the surge in AI applications, catering to the needs of the next generation of computing #GestaltIT #GoogleCloud #TechAllyson #AIFD4 #Sponsored Coverage https://gestaltit.com/sponsored/intel/allyson-klein/google-cloud-re-architects-infrastructure-for-ai-era/

AI data infrastructures are increasingly reliant on advanced storage solutions to manage the sheer volume and velocity of data processing demands, as highlighted in Stephen Foskett's article on Gestalt IT #GestaltIT #SFoskett #Solidigm #AIFD4 #Sponsored https://gestaltit.com/sponsored/solidigm/stephen/the-critical-role-of-advanced-storage-in-ai-data-infrastructure/

AI data infrastructures are increasingly reliant on advanced storage solutions to manage the sheer volume and velocity of data processing demands, as highlighted in Stephen Foskett's article on Gestalt IT #GestaltIT #SFoskett #Solidigm #AIFD4 #Sponsored https://gestaltit.com/sponsored/solidigm/stephen/the-critical-role-of-advanced-storage-in-ai-data-infrastructure/

Just Posted: Ben Young highlights Solidigm's high-capacity, fast, and energy-efficient SSDs as crucial for advancing AI technology by meeting the demanding storage needs essential for AI training and operational efficiency. #Solidigm #BenYoungNZ #AIFD4 #GestaltIT #Sponsored
https://gestaltit.com/sponsored/solidigm/ben-young/solidigm-a-bigger-faster-and-more-efficient-storage-for-ai/

Just Posted: Ben Young highlights Solidigm's high-capacity, fast, and energy-efficient SSDs as crucial for advancing AI technology by meeting the demanding storage needs essential for AI training and operational efficiency. #Solidigm #BenYoungNZ #AIFD4 #GestaltIT #Sponsored
https://gestaltit.com/sponsored/solidigm/ben-young/solidigm-a-bigger-faster-and-more-efficient-storage-for-ai/

There is a hazardous amount of AI-generated and SEO-oriented content being generated, and the solution is real stories from real communities. In the first episode of Tech Field Podcast, recorded on-site at AI Field Day, Stephen Foskett chats with Frederic Van Haren, Gina Rosenthal and Colleen Coll about confronting inauthentic content.
#ColleenColl #Digi_Sunshine #FredericVHaren #SFoskett #TechFieldDay #TechFieldDayPod #AIFD4 #TFDPodcast Coverage
https://gestaltit.com/podcast/stephen/content-made-with-ai-is-obscuring-real-information/

There is a hazardous amount of AI-generated and SEO-oriented content being generated, and the solution is real stories from real communities. In the first episode of Tech Field Podcast, recorded on-site at AI Field Day, Stephen Foskett chats with Frederic Van Haren, Gina Rosenthal and Colleen Coll about confronting inauthentic content.
#ColleenColl #Digi_Sunshine #FredericVHaren #SFoskett #TechFieldDay #TechFieldDayPod #AIFD4 #TFDPodcast Coverage
https://gestaltit.com/podcast/stephen/content-made-with-ai-is-obscuring-real-information/

There is a hazardous amount of AI-generated and SEO-oriented content being generated, and the solution is real stories from real communities #ColleenColl #Digi_Sunshine #FredericVHaren #SFoskett #TechFieldDay #TechFieldDayPod #AIFD4 #TFDPodcast Coverage https://gestaltit.com/podcast/stephen/content-made-with-ai-is-obscuring-real-information/

There is a hazardous amount of AI-generated and SEO-oriented content being generated, and the solution is real stories from real communities #ColleenColl #Digi_Sunshine #FredericVHaren #SFoskett #TechFieldDay #TechFieldDayPod #AIFD4 #TFDPodcast Coverage https://gestaltit.com/podcast/stephen/content-made-with-ai-is-obscuring-real-information/

#SymLink: Stephen Foskett highlights the critical role of authentic community content in addressing the challenges posed by AI-generated and SEO-focused articles in the tech media landscape. @GestaltIT @sfoskett #AIFD4 #TFDPodcast
https://gestaltit.com/podcast/stephen/content-made-with-ai-is-obscuring-real-information/

#SymLink: Stephen Foskett highlights the critical role of authentic community content in addressing the challenges posed by AI-generated and SEO-focused articles in the tech media landscape. @GestaltIT @sfoskett #AIFD4 #TFDPodcast
https://gestaltit.com/podcast/stephen/content-made-with-ai-is-obscuring-real-information/

As discussed at AI Field Day, Solidigm's storage system addresses the diverse and intense demands of AI workloads, ensuring GPUs remain constantly fed with data #GestaltIT #Solidigm #WriterOfTech1 #AIFD4 https://gestaltit.com/sponsored/solidigm/jimthewhyguy/keeping-gpus-fed-around-the-clock-with-solidigm/

As discussed at AI Field Day, Solidigm's storage system addresses the diverse and intense demands of AI workloads, ensuring GPUs remain constantly fed with data #GestaltIT #Solidigm #WriterOfTech1 #AIFD4 https://gestaltit.com/sponsored/solidigm/jimthewhyguy/keeping-gpus-fed-around-the-clock-with-solidigm/

At AI Field Day, Qlik launched AutoML, a revolutionary no-code machine learning capability within Qlik Cloud, empowering enterprises to harness predictive analytics without the barriers of cost or lack of expertise #GestaltIT #Qlik #WriterOfTech1 #AIFD4 https://gestaltit.com/tech-field-day/sulagna/no-code-machine-learning-with-qlik-automl/

The TechArena has launched a Data Insights Series, joining forces with Solidigm, where they will explore the intricate landscape of data in the AI era #Solidigm #TechAllyson #TechArenaNow #AIFD4 #Podcast https://www.thetecharena.net/content/datainsights/solidigm

The TechArena has launched a Data Insights Series, joining forces with Solidigm, where they will explore the intricate landscape of data in the AI era #Solidigm #TechAllyson #TechArenaNow #AIFD4 #Podcast https://www.thetecharena.net/content/datainsights/solidigm

In the rapidly advancing field of AI, efficiently managing checkpoints during model training is crucial, and Solidigm's QLC drives offer a solution that mitigates the risk of slow storage becoming a bottleneck #BenYoungNZ #Solidigm #AIFD4 https://benyoung.blog/dont-let-storage-be-your-ai-training-kryptonite/

In the rapidly advancing field of AI, efficiently managing checkpoints during model training is crucial, and Solidigm's QLC drives offer a solution that mitigates the risk of slow storage becoming a bottleneck #BenYoungNZ #Solidigm #AIFD4 https://benyoung.blog/dont-let-storage-be-your-ai-training-kryptonite/

In this TechArena interview, Allyson Klein explores with Intel's Lisa Spelman the evolving compute demands as enterprises gear up for the AI revolution and strive for widespread AI integration #Intel #TechAllyson #TechArenaNow #AIFD4 #Podcast https://www.thetecharena.net/content/compute-requirements-in-the-ai-era-with-intels-lisa-spelman

In this TechArena interview, Allyson Klein explores with Intel's Lisa Spelman the evolving compute demands as enterprises gear up for the AI revolution and strive for widespread AI integration #Intel #TechAllyson #TechArenaNow #AIFD4 #Podcast https://www.thetecharena.net/content/compute-requirements-in-the-ai-era-with-intels-lisa-spelman

#SymLink: Gina Rosenthal discusses VAST Data's ambitious evolution beyond traditional storage and compute, aimed at easing AI adoption for IT organizations with a scalable, integrated infrastructure and key industry partnerships. @gminks #VAST_Data #GMinks #AIFD4 #LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/next-generation-ai-vast-data-beyond-storage-compute-gina-rosenthal-qasqc

#SymLink: Gina Rosenthal discusses VAST Data's ambitious evolution beyond traditional storage and compute, aimed at easing AI adoption for IT organizations with a scalable, integrated infrastructure and key industry partnerships. @gminks #VAST_Data #GMinks #AIFD4 #LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/next-generation-ai-vast-data-beyond-storage-compute-gina-rosenthal-qasqc

#SymLink: Gina Rosenthal discusses VAST Data's ambitious evolution beyond traditional storage and compute, aimed at easing AI adoption for IT organizations with a scalable, integrated infrastructure and key industry partnerships. @gminks #VAST_Data #GMinks #AIFD4 #LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/next-generation-ai-vast-data-beyond-storage-compute-gina-rosenthal-qasqc

#SymLink: Gina Rosenthal discusses VAST Data's ambitious evolution beyond traditional storage and compute, aimed at easing AI adoption for IT organizations with a scalable, integrated infrastructure and key industry partnerships. @gminks #VAST_Data #GMinks #AIFD4 #LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/next-generation-ai-vast-data-beyond-storage-compute-gina-rosenthal-qasqc

#SymLink: Gina Rosenthal discusses VAST Data's ambitious evolution beyond traditional storage and compute, aimed at easing AI adoption for IT organizations with a scalable, integrated infrastructure and key industry partnerships. @gminks #VAST_Data #GMinks #AIFD4 #LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/next-generation-ai-vast-data-beyond-storage-compute-gina-rosenthal-qasqc

#SymLink: Allyson Klein and Intel’s Lisa Spelman discuss the changing compute landscape and the integration of AI in enterprise, emphasizing the importance of software and standards for widespread AI deployment, in the www.thetecharena.net article. #Intel #TechAllyson #AIFD4 #TechArenaNow #Podcast
https://www.thetecharena.net/content/compute-requirements-in-the-ai-era-with-intels-lisa-spelman

#SymLink: Allyson Klein and Intel’s Lisa Spelman discuss the changing compute landscape and the integration of AI in enterprise, emphasizing the importance of software and standards for widespread AI deployment, in the www.thetecharena.net article. #Intel #TechAllyson #AIFD4 #TechArenaNow #Podcast
https://www.thetecharena.net/content/compute-requirements-in-the-ai-era-with-intels-lisa-spelman

#SymLink: The TechArena's new Data Insights Series, featuring Solidigm, delves into the intersection of data and AI, discussing the series' goals and the foundational role of SSD innovation in modern data pipelines. #Solidigm #TechAllyson #AIFD4 #TechArenaNow #Podcast
https://www.thetecharena.net/content/datainsights/solidigm

#SymLink: The TechArena's new Data Insights Series, featuring Solidigm, delves into the intersection of data and AI, discussing the series' goals and the foundational role of SSD innovation in modern data pipelines. #Solidigm #TechAllyson #AIFD4 #TechArenaNow #Podcast
https://www.thetecharena.net/content/datainsights/solidigm

#SymLink: The article emphasizes the importance of high-speed Solidigm QLC SSDs for avoiding bottlenecks in AI training, ensuring efficiency, and reducing costs by preventing idle GPU time. #Solidigm #BenYoungNZ #AIFD4
https://benyoung.blog/dont-let-storage-be-your-ai-training-kryptonite/

#SymLink: The article emphasizes the importance of high-speed Solidigm QLC SSDs for avoiding bottlenecks in AI training, ensuring efficiency, and reducing costs by preventing idle GPU time. #Solidigm #BenYoungNZ #AIFD4
https://benyoung.blog/dont-let-storage-be-your-ai-training-kryptonite/

At AI Field Day, Qlik unveiled a wizard-based AI feature that simplifies the process of leveraging on-premises data for insightful analytics, integrating smoothly with Qlik's cloud services #DemitasseNZ #Qlik #TheFuturumGroup #AIFD4 https://futurumgroup.com/insights/at-ai-field-day-qlik-shows-ai-based-analysis-added-to-its-platform/

At AI Field Day, Qlik unveiled a wizard-based AI feature that simplifies the process of leveraging on-premises data for insightful analytics, integrating smoothly with Qlik's cloud services #DemitasseNZ #Qlik #TheFuturumGroup #AIFD4 https://futurumgroup.com/insights/at-ai-field-day-qlik-shows-ai-based-analysis-added-to-its-platform/

At AI Field Day, Intel offered insights into strategic decision-making for AI inference, highlighting scenarios where Intel Xeon CPUs outshine traditional GPU solutions on both on-premises and cloud servers #DemitasseNZ #Intel #TheFuturumGroup #AIFD4 https://futurumgroup.com/insights/deciding-when-to-use-intel-xeon-cpus-for-ai-inference-ai-field-day/

At AI Field Day, Intel offered insights into strategic decision-making for AI inference, highlighting scenarios where Intel Xeon CPUs outshine traditional GPU solutions on both on-premises and cloud servers #DemitasseNZ #Intel #TheFuturumGroup #AIFD4 https://futurumgroup.com/insights/deciding-when-to-use-intel-xeon-cpus-for-ai-inference-ai-field-day/

#SymLink: Solidigm experts Ace Stryker and Alan Bumgarner emphasized the essential role of efficient and scalable solid-state storage solutions, particularly SSDs, in supporting the data-intensive processes and reducing total costs in AI applications during AI Field Day. #Solidigm #AIFD4
https://news.solidigm.com/en-WW/235481-why-storage-matters-for-ai-solidigm-shares-pov-at-ai-field-day

#SymLink: Solidigm experts Ace Stryker and Alan Bumgarner emphasized the essential role of efficient and scalable solid-state storage solutions, particularly SSDs, in supporting the data-intensive processes and reducing total costs in AI applications during AI Field Day. #Solidigm #AIFD4
https://news.solidigm.com/en-WW/235481-why-storage-matters-for-ai-solidigm-shares-pov-at-ai-field-day

Nature Fresh Farms – Optimizing Indoor Farming Practices with AI and Intel

Artificial intelligence is restyling one of the oldest jobs of mankind – farming. A growing presence of robots in the fields, and AI-based discovery and prediction, are driving farmers away from traditional farming towards precision agriculture.

One of the companies at the helm of this quiet transition is Nature Fresh Farms. Established in Leamington, Ontario in 1999, Nature Fresh Farms is one of the largest greenhouse farms in North America.

The farm sprawls over 250 acres of land. Organic peppers, berries, tomatoes and cucumbers grow in rows in the controlled environment of enormous hothouses. Keith Bradley, VP of IT and Security for Nature Fresh Farms, gave a presentation at the recent AI Field Day event, revealing the behind-the-scenes workings. NFF’s computerized plant lifecycle management is based off of a private, Intel-based infrastructure.

Controlled Environment Agriculture

Lately, the farming industry has survived several tough years in a row. Yields were devastated by unpredictable weather patterns involving record number of droughts and hard freezes, crop diseases, seasonal cycles, environmental problems, and labor shortage. This has turned many farmers and growers towards more intensive forms of agriculture.

Nature Fresh Farms is a passionate advocate of artificial intelligence for farming. Over the last 8 years, the farm has vigorously employed AI solutions to surmount many daunting challenges, and the outcome has been nothing short of satisfactory.

Little by little, Nature Fresh Farms has changed the way they do things, and think about the business in a whole new way through strategic adoption of AI.

“We are constantly looking at new ways to understand what the plant does,” says Bradley.

Real-World Data for Better Farming Practices

Greenhouse farming is a comprehensive rethinking of traditional farming as we know it. Eliminating the natural factors like sunlight and weather, by bringing the farm indoors is an impactful change. But for maximum payoff, farmers need to constantly monitor the vegetation growth.

This prompted using real-world data gathered from the farm. The Nature Fresh Farms greenhouses are installed with an assortment of edge sensors pointing down and looking closely at the vegetation. The data they pick up is computed locally at edge points. The information is hauled back nightly to a core datacenter when insights on a varying range of things are inferred – use of natural resources, irrigation level, yield measurement, growth forecast, ideal harvest times, ripeness, distressed crops, plant infections, and so on.

Data is synced up every hour for most updated information, says Bradley. “We’ve gained a lot of knowledge because we have the infrastructure to handle things,” he says talking about the technological changes it has embraced over the years. “We’re one of the few greenhouses that are going for a large infrastructure. We have the compute, and the storage, so we don’t have to go to the cloud.”

Cloud is not an option for farming companies. “Because most farms in our industry don’t have an Internet connection that can handle cloud-type resource, we have to be on prem or it won’t work for us,” he explains.

Nature Fresh Farms updates and tweaks its farming and harvesting plans based on data several times a year. Today the farm grows more high-quality produce per square meter than ever before.

“Every year we want to see an increase in yield. We measure everything by per meter square, and one of the big things that [technology] did for us is, we are seeing a good trend at a three or four increase per year. Think about the same plants growing more produce in the same space, and using the same amount of resources.”

A Xeon-Based Tech Stack to Power the Models

At the outset, Nature Fresh Farms’ in-house stack comprised a 3-core cluster that used Intel Xeon Gen2 processors. But, soon they realized that for a farm its kind and size, uptime is mission-critical. “An hour or two of downtime on the wrong day is too much. We could lose a crop in that window and it could cost us millions of dollars in damage.”

Need for more compute was felt, and the stack was updated with newer generations of Xeon CPUs. The performance gains were staggering, says Bradley.

“Each time we add nodes, we see a direct reduction. One of the ETLs that we run on our labor side compares how efficiently the labor is working. Earlier it would take 3 hours to run. With the latest generation, it is down to 30 minutes.”

Today, Nature Fresh Farms has 32 AI models of which a majority is home-grown on its private stack, and some borrowed from external vendors. With sizes ranging from 4 GB to 32 GB, the models are deployed on a 7-node cluster, of which two are dual-core 4th Gen Intel Xeon CPUs.

Leveraging AI for Higher-Value Yields

Nature Fresh Farms relies on a network of growers and their extensive farming knowledge. But working in different parts of the acreage, their knowledge is often siloed. The company uses its large language models to bring all the information together and provide the team a holistic view required to plan a response.

“We have multiple facilities where growers won’t see each other for weeks but once that data is in the system and that model is there, it’ll now know how to react.”

The models are retrained periodically to keep the predictions and calculations as close to accurate as possible. “It gives us an accurate forecast for what the sales department needs to sell, so that we’re not overselling. The farther away it is, the harder it is to predict but when we get closer, we know pretty accurately how many boxes of strawberries we’re going to pick, how much weight, what grade, etc.”

Inferencing is a big part of their AI workload. “One of the areas that we do a lot of inferencing with pictures is on the packing lines. There are multiple things that we got out of doing that that we never realized.”

Through a vision system, the models sort produces based on grade and maturity, a function that has helped maximize shelf-life by putting yields of the equal ripeness together.

“Vision actually looks at the vegetables, takes pictures as they are rolling in, and decides which shoot it should go down.”

Nature Fresh Farms is slowly transitioning towards Kubernetes as a way of modernizing some of the older models. “We’re trying to start getting rid of older models, and groom and grow them. Refining these models is one of the things our team always strives to do,” Bradley says.

Are CPUs going to be sufficient as operation scales, or are GPUs on the horizon? “I’ll probably say no. For our scale and size, we’re not at that point that we really need it,” replies Bradley.

With inference calls taking place only few times a day, GPUs will be an overkill, he explains. “As long as we get the results we need, I don’t see us wanting to change what we do.”

Be sure to watch Nature Fresh Farms’ presentation from the AI Field Day event to follow the discussion. Also check out Jim Davis’ view on Nature Fresh Farms’ use of AI and Intel CPUs in his article. You can also view the Intel Spotlight Podcast episode featuring Keith Bradley and Nature Fresh Farms.

#AI #AIFD4 #LLM #ML #Intel #IntelBusiness #NatureFresh #TechFieldDay #WriterOfTech1

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At AI Field Day, Hammerspace showcased its innovative storage acceleration solution, demonstrating how Hyperscale NAS can be leveraged to enhance the performance of current scale-out NAS systems, particularly in training large language models (LLM) efficiently #DemitasseNZ #Hammerspace_Inc #TheFuturumGroup #AIFD4 https://futurumgroup.com/insights/hammerspace-shows-storage-acceleration-for-ai-training-at-ai-field-day/

At AI Field Day, Hammerspace showcased its innovative storage acceleration solution, demonstrating how Hyperscale NAS can be leveraged to enhance the performance of current scale-out NAS systems, particularly in training large language models (LLM) efficiently #DemitasseNZ #Hammerspace_Inc #TheFuturumGroup #AIFD4 https://futurumgroup.com/insights/hammerspace-shows-storage-acceleration-for-ai-training-at-ai-field-day/

At AI Field Day, Hammerspace showcased its innovative storage acceleration solution, demonstrating how Hyperscale NAS can be leveraged to enhance the performance of current scale-out NAS systems, particularly in training large language models (LLM) efficiently #DemitasseNZ #Hammerspace_Inc #TheFuturumGroup #AIFD4 https://futurumgroup.com/insights/hammerspace-shows-storage-acceleration-for-ai-training-at-ai-field-day/

At AI Field Day, Hammerspace showcased its innovative storage acceleration solution, demonstrating how Hyperscale NAS can be leveraged to enhance the performance of current scale-out NAS systems, particularly in training large language models (LLM) efficiently #DemitasseNZ #Hammerspace_Inc #TheFuturumGroup #AIFD4 https://futurumgroup.com/insights/hammerspace-shows-storage-acceleration-for-ai-training-at-ai-field-day/

At AI Field Day, Hammerspace showcased its innovative storage acceleration solution, demonstrating how Hyperscale NAS can be leveraged to enhance the performance of current scale-out NAS systems, particularly in training large language models (LLM) efficiently #DemitasseNZ #Hammerspace_Inc #TheFuturumGroup #AIFD4 https://futurumgroup.com/insights/hammerspace-shows-storage-acceleration-for-ai-training-at-ai-field-day/

#SymLink: Allyson Klein details VAST Data's transformative leap in AI data management through its groundbreaking platform with NVIDIA DPUs and a strategic partnership with Supermicro, positioning the company as an influential force in the future of AI training infrastructure. #VAST_Data #NVIDIA #TechAllyson #AIFD4 #TechArenaNow
https://www.thetecharena.net/content/vast-soars-with-industry-heavyweights

#SymLink: Allyson Klein details VAST Data's transformative leap in AI data management through its groundbreaking platform with NVIDIA DPUs and a strategic partnership with Supermicro, positioning the company as an influential force in the future of AI training infrastructure. #VAST_Data #NVIDIA #TechAllyson #AIFD4 #TechArenaNow
https://www.thetecharena.net/content/vast-soars-with-industry-heavyweights

VMware's presentation with Intel at AI Field Day centered on optimizing on-premises AI workloads, highlighting the capability of Intel Sapphire Rapids CPUs with Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) to efficiently perform large language model (LLM) AI inference, traditionally a task for GPUs #DemitasseNZ #Intel #TheFuturumGroup #VMware #AIFD4 https://futurumgroup.com/insights/vmware-private-ai-at-ai-field-day-cpus-if-you-can-gpus-if-you-must/

VMware's presentation with Intel at AI Field Day centered on optimizing on-premises AI workloads, highlighting the capability of Intel Sapphire Rapids CPUs with Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) to efficiently perform large language model (LLM) AI inference, traditionally a task for GPUs #DemitasseNZ #Intel #TheFuturumGroup #VMware #AIFD4 https://futurumgroup.com/insights/vmware-private-ai-at-ai-field-day-cpus-if-you-can-gpus-if-you-must/

At AI Field Day 4, Intel invited the Google Cloud AI team to showcase their Gemma large language model (LLM), revealing insights into the advanced infrastructure used for building such models on Google Cloud #DemitasseNZ #GoogleCloud #Intel #TheFuturumGroup #AIFD4 https://futurumgroup.com/insights/gemma-and-building-your-own-llm-ai-google-cloud-ai-at-ai-field-day-4/

At AI Field Day 4, Intel invited the Google Cloud AI team to showcase their Gemma large language model (LLM), revealing insights into the advanced infrastructure used for building such models on Google Cloud #DemitasseNZ #GoogleCloud #Intel #TheFuturumGroup #AIFD4 https://futurumgroup.com/insights/gemma-and-building-your-own-llm-ai-google-cloud-ai-at-ai-field-day-4/