This IBM® Redpaper publication describes the architecture, installation procedure, and results for running a typical training application that works on an automotive data set in an orchestrated and secured environment that provides horizontal scalability of GPU resources across physical node boundaries for deep neural network (DNN) workloads.

This paper is mostly relevant for systems engineers, system administrators, or system architects that are responsible for data center infrastructure management and typical day-to-day operations such as system monitoring, operational control, asset management, and security audits.

This paper also describes IBM Spectrum® LSF® as a workload manager and IBM Spectrum Discover as a metadata search engine to find the right data for an inference job and automate the data science workflow. With the help of this solution, the data location, which may be on different storage systems, and time of availability for the AI job can be fully abstracted, which provides valuable information for data scientists.

Chapter 1. Overview

Chapter 2. Proof of concept environment

Chapter 3. Installation

Chapter 4. Preparation and functional testing

Chapter 5. Deep neural network training on the Audi Autonomous Driving Dataset semantic segmentation data set