Deployment Guide

Executive summary
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Executive summary
Modern computational requirements have evolved and diverged with the wide acceptance and use of
containers and virtualization. Today’s workloads are presenting challenges to the CPU-centric paradigm
which has been a key determinant of customers' server performance and utility needs. General purpose
CPUs no longer adequately handle these new workloads, whether they are artificial intelligence, machine
learning or virtual desktops. However, CPU power can be enhanced with add-in graphics processing units
(GPUs). GPUs leverage thousands of computing cores instead of the tens of cores that general purpose
CPUs can address. While, the cost of putting dedicated GPU hardware into every server is uneconomical,
VMware vSphere Bitfusion on PowerEdge servers enables network delivery of these shared resources to any
properly configured node. When Bitfusion is built into the well-known vSphere infrastructure and hardware
consolidation is enabled, administrators can optimize their use of expensive resources. This delivers immense
value to those networked nodes which require powerful GPUs to execute massively parallel workloads.