FPT Smart Cloud, a Silver Member of OpenInfra Foundation, uses OpenStack to power AI workloads in Vietnam, compared with proprietary solutions like VMware and Microsoft Azure.
The company has built a significant OpenStack footprint for AI workloads and high-performance computing, leveraging features like flexibility for customization and mature cloud ecosystem.
FPT Smart Cloud utilizes OpenStack for managing AI factories in Vietnam and Japan, offering services like bare metal, GPU cloud instances, and Kubernetes provisioning.
For storage, they employ SAN storage, Ceph, and local NVME, with performance improvements seen compared to VMware.
In another use case, FPT AI eKYC offers secure digital onboarding and authentication to Vietnamese banks, demonstrating scalability and agility with OpenStack.
By optimizing existing AI/HPC workloads with OpenStack, FPT achieved a 7% GPU efficiency increase and multi-million dollar savings.
Technologies like NUMA, HugePage, CPU pinning, and NVMe storage contribute to GPU optimization and network/storage capacity enhancements.
FPT leverages OpenStack features like DPDK, SR-IOV, and vGPU live migration to improve high availability for critical AI and HPC workloads.
The 'OpenInfra for AI' Working Group, including members like FPT Smart Cloud, aims to promote OpenStack as the go-to open-source infrastructure technology for AI workloads.
Collaboration within the OpenInfra community focuses on enhancing infrastructure for AI workloads and addressing software gaps to support AI scenarios.
Joining the OpenInfra Foundation can support the efforts to advance OpenStack adoption for AI workloads.