Sponsor Talk
Matt Williams: Field CTO at Cornelis
Title: Reimagining the Scale-Out Architecture for HPC and AI
Abstract:
High performance applications such as AI training, AI inference and HPC scientific modelling are all benefitting from the dramatic performance increases of CPUs, GPUs and other accelerators. These applications rely on massive parallelization, but in many cases, the scale-out, inter-node interconnect that parallelization relies upon is not up for the challenge, and becomes the primary bottleneck in the system. This leads to dramatic under-utilization of expensive assets, and is both a technical and business challenge.
There are several key metrics that determine how an interconnect will impact the performance of challenging applications including message rate, latency, bandwidth and speed of congestion management. In this talk, Matthew will dive into the differentiated Omni-Path architecture that embraces open standards and delivers industry-leading performance to our open ecosystem.
There are several key metrics that determine how an interconnect will impact the performance of challenging applications including message rate, latency, bandwidth and speed of congestion management. In this talk, Matthew will dive into the differentiated Omni-Path architecture that embraces open standards and delivers industry-leading performance to our open ecosystem.
Biography:
Matt brings almost 3 decades of deep technical and business expertise to the role of Field CTO at Cornelis, where he is engaging with strategic customers and partners, providing thought leadership to the AI, HPC and high-performance data center markets.
Prior to joining Cornelis, Matt held various senior leadership roles at high-growth companies, including CTO, Field CTO, Corporate Evangelist, and Founder. He is an expert and energetic strategist, analyst and visionary who has delivered transformational product concepts across five generations of network architectures. Matt has been awarded 23 U.S. patents to date.
Matt holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering with First Class Honors from Queen’s University and is a registered P.Eng.
Prior to joining Cornelis, Matt held various senior leadership roles at high-growth companies, including CTO, Field CTO, Corporate Evangelist, and Founder. He is an expert and energetic strategist, analyst and visionary who has delivered transformational product concepts across five generations of network architectures. Matt has been awarded 23 U.S. patents to date.
Matt holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering with First Class Honors from Queen’s University and is a registered P.Eng.