From Zero to the Clouds: SUSE GPU Roadmap and Innovation StrategySUSECON 2019 - FUT1432

Alessandro FestaSr. Product Manager GPU Accelerators and Artificial Intelligencealessandro.festa@suse.com

Agenda

• Let’s talk about GPU and AI

• Market outlook

• SUSE market position today

• SUSE Strategy outlook

• Call to action

• Q&A

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Why a Product Managerfor GPU and AI?

By 2023, 40% of I&O teams will use AI-augmented automation in large enterprises, resulting in higher IT productivity

1Source: Gartner Predicts the Future of AI Technologies, Gartner

40%

Why a Product Managerfor GPU and AI?Worldwide spending on AI systems is forecast to reach $35.8 billion in 2019, an increase of 44.0% over 2018.

IDC Spending Guide report expects spending on AI will more than double to $79.2

1Source: Worldwide Spending on Artificial Intelligence Systems Will Grow to Nearly $35.8 Billion in 2019, According to New IDC Spending Guide,, IDC

44%

GPU Market outlook

Graphic processing unit (GPU) market is predicted to surpass a revenue of over USD 80 billion by 2024 when the worldwide GPU industry shipments are anticipated to reach 121,000 thousand units.

1Source:(Graphic Processing Unit) GPU Market to cross $80bn by 2024: Global Market Insights, Inc.

$80bn

AI Market outlook

Global Artificial Intelligence market accounted for $15.70 billion in 2017 and is expected to reach $300.26 billion by 2026 growing at a CAGR of 38.8% during the forecast period.

1Source: Global Artificial Intelligence Market Outlook Report 2018: Market Accounted for $15.70 Billion in 2017 and is Expected to Exceed $300 Billion by 2026,Research And Markets

38.8%

SUSE market position

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GPU Enabler AI support AI@SUSE

Enabling GPU at SUSE

We are working with the leading vendors and many other partners in the Accelerators Market. Our goal is to serve our customers with the leading solutions but also to offer the most innovative ones.

Support Artificial Intelligence

With SUSE, you can simplifyand automate routine infrastructure, maintenance and DevOps tasks while reducing CapEx and OpEx.

Artificial Intelligence means many things and we are committed to become the Operating System “de facto” for it.

Inject Artificial Intelligence at SUSE

With SUSE, you can providea flexible IT and application delivery infrastructure for rapid product innovation and delivery with a faster ROI for your internal and external customers.

We are working to inject Artificial Intelligence within our products in a way that is transparent to you and simply “just work”.

Use case like predict a failure before it happens or suggest the best way to optimize a workload before a degradation occur and so on.

WARNING!

Disruptive Strategy Ahead

Technology Trends Shaping the WorldOpen Source Is The Key Enabler

Increase Agility

Service Customers Better

Deliver New Offerings Faster

Drive Efficiency

You are here

A Broad Ecosystem to help

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13,500+CertifiedHardware

InteroperabilityPart of company-wide mission

2500+CertifiedProducts

5000+CertifiedApplications

3200SolutionProviders& SystemIntegrators

1800TechnologyPartners

600TrainingPartners

5000+PartnerEcosystemmembers

Why SUSE? Why AI with SUSE ?

Three steps approach

Simplified access to GPU-enabled computing

Be the “de facto” Operating System for Data Scientist

Let AI in our products “just work”.

Adapt InjectAccelerate

Accelerate (GPU vision)

Simplified access to GPU-enabled computing

• GPU-enabled computing made simple

• GPU-enabled cloud images for Cloud providers

• GPU-enabled Container technology

Physical Infrastructure: Multi-platform Servers, Switches, Storage

Container ManagementSUSE CaaS Platform

StorageSUSE Enterprise Storage

NetworkingSDN and NFV

ComputeVirtual Machine& Container

Multimodal Operating SystemSUSE Linux Enterprise Server

Platform as a ServiceSUSE Cloud Application Platform

Private Cloud / IaaSSUSE OpenStack Cloud

Software-defined Infrastructure

SUSE Manager

Infrastructure & Lifecycle Management

Application Delivery

SUSE Global Services

Consulting Services

Select Services

Premium Support Services

Services

Business-critical Applications

Machine Learning

BusinessAnalytics

High PerformanceComputing

Traditional IT & Applications

Internet of Things

Open, Secure, Proven

Public Cloud

SUSE Cloud Service Provider

Program

SUSE: Underpinning Digital Transformation

Adapt (AI support vision)Be the “de facto” Operating System for Data Scientist

• Be the “de facto” Operating System for Data Scientist

• Support major ML frameworks out-of-the-box

• Provide a simple way for Data Scientist to ramp up their AI projects

Application Delivery

Physical Infrastructure:

Public Cloud

Storage NetworkingCompute

Multimodal Operating System

Platform as a Service

Private Cloud / IaaS

Software-Defined Infrastructure

Uyuni /Spacewalk

SALT

Monasca

Infrastructure & Lifecycle Management

Container Management

Open Source at the Heart of Our SDI and Application Delivery Approach

Inject (AI at SUSE vision)

Let AI in our products “just work”.

AI should be a commodity and should help customer to succeed not make their life more complex.

• Predictive Analytics use cases:• Alerting before things happen

• Optimize before things slow down

Leading Technology Innovation

SUSE was the first to:

• Develop enterprise Linux on SAP HANA, AWS and Azure public cloud

• Lead development of the commercial Linux market by delivering the first commercially supported Linux distribution

• Allow instant rollback of operating system changes

• Deliver a Linux high availability solution that supports geographic mirroring with a broad set of redundancy configurations

• Champion for simplified single system Linux configuration and management

• Bring an innovative approach to simplify the deployment of configurable infrastructure (OBS)

• Facilitate DevOps adoption through inclusion of Container technology in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

• Create the Portus project to simplify and secure management of container registries

WhereSUSE Leads

Linux in Automotive10 of the largest global automobile mfgs. are active SUSE customers

x10

Linux in Retail7 out of 10 of the largest retailers in theU.S. are active SUSE customers

7/10Linux in Telecom10 of the largest telecommunications carriers rely on SUSE

x10Linux in Pharma7 out of 10 of the largest pharmaceuticalcompanies use SUSE Linux Enterprise

7/10

Linux in Aerospace9 out of 10 of the largest aerospacecompanies rely on SUSE

9/10SAP on Linux70% of all SAP applications runningon Linux run on SUSE

70%

Linux in HPCHalf of the world’s 20 largest supercomputers run on SUSE

50%

Linux in Large EnterpriseOver 80% of the Fortune Global 50 areactive SUSE Customers

80%

Mainframe LinuxOver 15 years of mainframe Linuxmarket share leadership

15+

Linux in Manufacturing7 out of 10 world’s largest manufacturersuse SUSE Linux Enterprise

7/10

Linux in Finance4 out of 5 of the world’s largestbanks use SUSE Linux Enterprise

4/5

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Q1-Q4 2019

H1 2020

H1/H2 2020

H2 2020

H1 2021

GPU enablementPartner Hub InitiativeDataScience images (VM/Containers)

Partner Hub InitiativeMulti-GPU support (Intel, AMD, NVIDIA,etc…)ML Frameworks support (wave 1) – completedDSVM enhancement (HPC/Singularity,etc..)

ML @ SUSE programML Frameworks support (wave 2)DSVM enhancements

ML@SUSE program

ML@SUSE program

GPU Enabled containers/VM

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Call to Action

LearnAdapt

Innovate

It’s not just WHAT we do.It’s HOW we do it.

• AI market is starting to grow and many business opportunities will surface. We are ready are you? Come talk to us!

• If you’re a data scientist what do you use? Any simple way to make AI? No I’m not talking about the frameworks.

• AI is a commodity and everyone will expect to have it to a certain degree in our products.

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Come to talk to me at the HPC booth or at the DevZone!

Questions?