Thomas Phelan
BlueData CTO/HPE Fellow, HPE BlueData

Thomas Phelan is cofounder and chief architect of BlueData. Previously, a member of the original team at Silicon Graphics that designed and implemented XFS, the first commercially availably 64-bit file system; and an early employee at VMware, a senior staff engineer and a key member of the ESX storage architecture team where he designed and developed the ESX storage I/O load-balancing subsystem and modular pluggable storage architecture as well as led teams working on many key storage initiatives such as the cloud storage gateway and vFlash.

Sessions

14:35–15:15 Wednesday, 16 October 2019

Location: Hilton Meeting Room 3-6

How to deploy large-scale distributed data analytics and machine learning on containers (sponsored by HPE)

Sponsored

Thomas Phelan (HPE BlueData)

Join Thomas Phelan to learn whether the combination of containers with large-scale distributed data analytics and machine learning applications is like combining oil and water or like peanut butter and chocolate. Read more.

16:00–16:40 Wednesday, 16 October 2019

Location: King's Suite - Sandringham

Deep learning with Horovod and Spark using GPUs and Docker containers

Implementing AI

Secondary topics: Deep Learning tools, Hardware, Machine Learning tools

Thomas Phelan (HPE BlueData)

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Today, organizations understand the need to keep pace with new technologies when it comes to performing data science with machine learning and deep learning, but these new technologies come with their own challenges. Thomas Phelan demonstrates the deployment of TensorFlow, Horovod, and Spark using the NVIDIA CUDA stack on Docker containers in a secure multitenant environment. Read more.