AIDC Now: Introduction to Building AI Data Centers with Apstra
AIDC Now: Introduction to Building AI Data Centers with Apstra
Building AI data centers is challenging, time-consuming and expensive. Our AIDC Now demo series will show how Juniper’s AI data center solution with Apstra provides a fast and flexible way to deploy and manage high performing networks for AI workloads.
You’ll learn
How Juniper’s AI data center solution can help you deploy high performing AI training, inference, and storage clusters.
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Transcript
Intro
0:01 Building AI Data Centers can be challenging, expensive and time consuming.
0:06 We're speaking from experience here.
0:08 Building our AI lab at Juniper came with a steep learning curve,
0:11 but that experience helped us
0:13 understand ways to make it easier for our customers to build their own AI Data Centers.
Overview
0:18 Our demo today is based on several real world Juniper deployments
0:22 combined into one representative customer that we'll call A1 Arcade.
0:27 A1 Arcade, is a content provider specializing in on-line video games.
0:31 They want to use AI to model elite gamers to improve their games’
0:35 non-player characters.
0:37 The challenge is that A1 Arcade is under tight budget and time constraints.
0:42 Sound familiar yet?
0:43 They’re also being challenged to find a solution that supports
0:46 their multi-vendor data centers without adding additional IT staff.
0:51 To get this done, the customer is using Juniper's AI DC Solution,
The Customer
0:55 a pillar of Juniper's AI-Native Networking Platform,
0:58 to deploy new frontend and backend data centers.
1:02 By deploying Juniper's Apstra and AI to automate the design
1:06 and deployment of multivendor DCs.
1:09 800G ethernet based solutions built on PTX and QFX switching.
1:14 And using Juniper Validated Designs or JVDs,
1:18 They can start with pre-validated and tested AI blueprints
1:21 to quickly deploy stable AI environments.
Apstra Demo
1:24 So we're going to take a look at how A1 Arcade uses Apstra
1:28 to automate the deployment of their new data centers.
1:30 First, of course, we need to log in to Apstra.
1:33 Out of the box, Apstra ships with a number of pre-loaded
1:36 rack and network templates for many standard designs.
1:39 For new AI deployments, Juniper has posted AI blueprints onto GitHub.
1:44 A1 Arcade simply needs to use our Terraform provider to pull these templates into Apstra.
1:50 Once unpacked, you can see there's a JVD blueprint for each of the new AI datacenters.
1:55 JVDs are pre validated to exponentially simplify
1:59 AI DC deployments, helping our customers quickly achieve stable AI production environments.
2:05 With the blueprints installed, we can now follow Apstra's logical process
2:10 to add devices and network parameters to get our data centers fully operational.
2:15 And it really is that easy.