Every once in a while, you see an impressive tech arrive on the market. Usually the engineer in me is blown away by its elegance and/or the freshness of the technical approach to a problem. But my inner businessman wonders whether the company founders will manage to propose a compelling business case to their customer … Continue reading What Happened to Cloud Paging Technology? →

A few years ago, I ran a cloud rendering startup that worked with VFX studios. We worked with a few mid-size studios, that used Windows on all their machines. We were faced with the challenge of deploying Windows server farms, and find practical ways to install programmatically heavy software (3dsMax, Maya, V-ray...) on all the … Continue reading Spoon: Containerization Before it was Cool, on Windows →

After years of working with industry on large-scale numerical simulations, VFX studios on massive rendering, and other compute-intensive stuff such as AI-powered satellite image analysis, I have now 1 habit: I'm always looking for the biggest bang for the buck, preferably cloud-based since I hate operating hardware. When it comes to HPC (high-performance computing), Xeon … Continue reading Hijacking the Blade Shadow PC for Deep Learning →

Once you're past the R&D phase, you have working deep neural nets, and you need to run them somewhere. If you want to avoid headaches with dependencies, you probably chose to make docker images out of your neural nets, with Tensorflow or equivalent + your code + your neural net weights. Problem is, if you … Continue reading Docker Registry Distribution in a Deep Learning Pipeline →