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Replay of the HPCwire Webinar:  Accelerating GPU Based Applications with NVIDIA Validated Magnum IO GPUDirect Storage and Pavilion

What can be achieved using applications such as AI/ML, Deep Learning, and Big Data Analytics has been revolutionized by Magnum IO GPUDirect Storage’s capabilities. Agencies have invested in these solutions to power their next generation applications, but to get the results they expect requires storage that can meet the I/O demands of these systems.

Learn how Pavilion shatters the storage bottleneck with the solution validated by NVIDIA Magnum IO to improve performance.

Join Rob Davis from NVIDIA and Costa Hasapopoulos from Pavilion to learn how NVIDIA tested storage can:
● Dramatically accelerate applications, reducing time to results
● Help you to efficiently scale to the largest data sets
● Enable you to get the most out of your GPU based systems

The live event was moderated by:

With over a decade’s experience covering the HPC space, Tiffany is one of the preeminent voices reporting on advanced scale computing today. Since joining the HPCwire team in 2006, Tiffany has played an essential role in steering editorial strategy, engaging with key audiences, and delivering groundbreaking content when readers need it most. As Managing Editor for HPCwire, Tiffany brings an unmatched wealth of expertise, insights, and editorial prowess based on years of experience covering high performance, cloud, AI, and other advanced computing technologies.

Tiffany TraderManaging Editor & Editorial Director, HPCwire

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Our Panel

Rob Davis is the Vice President of Storage Technology at the Nvidia Networking BU where he focuses on ways to apply high-speed interface technology to storage systems. As technology leader and visionary for more than 35 years, he has been a key evaluator and decision maker for the development of storage networking products.  He is currently leading the development and marketing of products based on NVMe over fabrics, which will allow for the high-speed networking of PCIe-based storage. Davis was previously Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at QLogic, where for 15 years he drove development and marketing of Fibre Channel, Ethernet and InfiniBand technology into new markets such as blade servers. Prior to QLogic, Davis spent 20 years at Ancor Communications, which QLogic acquired in 2000. At Ancor, Davis served as Vice President of Advanced Development, Director of Technical Marketing, and Director of Engineering. He drove development and marketing of their Fibre Channel products in the early 90s and their InfiniBand products in the late 90s. Davis’ in-depth expertise spans Virtualization, Ethernet, Fibre Channel, SCSI, iSCSI, InfiniBand, RoCE, SAS, PCI, PM, SATA, and Flash Storage.

Rob DavisVice President, Storage Technology, NVIDIA

Costa is the Chief Field Technology Officer at Pavilion Data Systems and brings over 35 years of experience in IT hardware, software and solutions experience including over 20 years of experience in the storage industry.  His experience ranges from executive leadership roles in sales, technical sales, services, field product marketing/solution development all focused on understanding the needs of customers and “solving real world problems with technologies”.  

Prior to joining Pavilion, Costa has had many executive leadership roles in the storage/server industry.  From the President of Equus Compute Solutions a a white box server manufacturer, to World Wide VP of Storage Sales at IBM, to 10 years as  Americas CTO for Hitachi Data System, to World Wide Vice President of Services and Solutions for McData/Computer Network Technologies.  In these roles he has sold and designed storage solutions for some of the largest enterprises in the world including:  Google/YoutTUBE, eBay, PayPal, Allstate Insurance, Walmart to several of the largest financial institutions in the world as well as the largest health insurance provider in the United States.  Costa has been involved in the storage industry since the start of shared storage and SAN’s.  In fact Costa started his storage career as the General Manager of Imation’s Storage Area Network testing and interoperability lab in 1999 when shared storage solutions were just coming to market.

Costa has also served on several as an advisory to several VC’s and Private Equity backed companies.  

Costa holds a BS in Computer Science from Iowa State University.

Costa HasapopoulosChief Field Technology Officer, Pavilion Data Systems