SSUG::Digital: 009 – Deep Thought: An AI Project for Autonomous Driving Development

Continental, a tier-1 automotive supplier, runs a new high-performance cluster based on NVIDIA DGX, IBM Spectrum Scale and IBM ESS to boost autonomous driving development performance. Continental uses this system for deep learning, simulation, virtual data generation and related workloads. The new cluster reduces development time from weeks to hours. Speakers from Continental and the business partner SVA will present business requirements and derived workloads, the Spectrum and ESS implementation, and first operational experience.

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Q&A

Did Continental ever look at Spectrum Discover for tagging? Any feedback on pros/cons for its usefulness at Continental?
We did not have a chance to look into Spectrum Discover.

Related material

• Continental: Automotive supercomputer
• Continental press release

User Group Host: Bill Anderson

Speaker

Speaker Name	Photo	Bio
David Enenkel		David Enenkel is the Head of IT Operations at Continental - ADC GmbH. He has over 20 years of IT-Infrastructure experience and moved into the area of ADAS 2,5 years ago. He and his team are supporting the ADC engineers to find and establish feasible IT solutions/services for the specific ADAS demands as well as operating the platforms and data centers. He led the Supercomputer project as the IT project manager and is happy to give an insight into all ups and downs building up such an environment.
Viktor Pál		Viktor Pál is working as a Deep Learning Infrastructure Architect at Continental and is currently also acting as Technical Team Lead. He has more than 14 years of IT Infrastructure experience and started working at Continental two years ago. Viktor and his team are supporting AI development by designing, implementing and operating the environment that enables Deep Learning at Continental. He contributed to the Supercomputer project as a Solution Architect and he will talk about the challenges of AI Infrastructure as Code.
Jochen Zeller		Jochen is IT Architect at www.sva.de. He has more than 20 years of IT experience, is part of the SVA IT Architects team and technical leader of the Spectrum Scale team. His Spectrum Scale and infrastructure projects span various industries and fields, such as HPC, health care, autonomous driving, banking, insurance, etc. When he is not working with his customers, he sits in his glider and flies away - at least in summer.