Frank Denneman

Do you create vSphere clusters that contain ESXi hosts with different CPU and memory configurations?

@alexellisuk haven't looked at that yet. Will post some results soon

@FrankDenneman How did you find the speed of it vs let’s say a large NVIDIA GPU?

DGX Spark arrived Friday. First thing I did was run NemoClaw with Nemotron locally. No cloud, just a small box on my desk acting like a personal AI runtime. What stood out wasn’t that it works, but how different unified memory feels. The usual GPU signals no longer apply. Wrote up what I found: frankdenneman.ai/posts/2026-03-… #DGX #NVIDIA

Part 10 of Architecting AI Infrastructure is live. Multi-GPU inside a single host is not just about adding more GPUs. Once a model spans GPUs, communication becomes part of the runtime path. This article walks through the full spectrum: PCIe NVLink domains 4 GPU NVLink 8 GPU split domains HGX with NVSwitch From independent accelerators to a unified GPU fabric inside a single server. Understanding this is key to scaling distributed inference and MoE models. Part 10: Understanding Multi-GPU Topologies Within a Single Host: frankdenneman.ai/2026-03-27-Und…

Agentic AI changes how GPUs are used. Instead of short prompt–response interactions, agents keep sessions alive while they reason, call tools, and loop through workflows. The KV cache doesn’t disappear; it accumulates. That changes GPU memory planning. New article frankdenneman.nl/2026-03-12-dur… Explains why durable sessions, multi-step reasoning, and tool calls create persistent GPU memory pressure, and why infrastructure teams need to start planning for it. #AI #GPU #NVIDIA #VCF

New tool: Same-size vs Mixed-size Placement Simulator See how vGPU profile choices shape cluster-wide GPU capacity over time. Not just per GPU. Walkthrough: frankdenneman.nl/posts/2026-03-… Simulator: frankdenneman.nl/tools/same-siz…

@sama In depth analysis (wrapup of everything that happened here on X too) on why you are able to make a deal where @DarioAmodei can't: docs.google.com/document/d/1NL…

@DCasota AFAIK, right now we do not have support for ASICs. Just 'regular' GPUs from NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel. Are you talking about the Taalas device, right? Looks really promising.

Part 5 of the Architecting AI Infrastructure series is live. This article shows how startup order and assignment policy shape fragmentation, consolidation, and future placement opportunities. frankdenneman.nl/posts/2026-02-…

Started an 'Architecting AI Infrastructure' series. Part 4 published today: frankdenneman.nl/posts/2026-02-…

new blog post: Which Multi-GPU Configurations Are You Planning to Deploy? tinyurl.com/multi-gpu-surv… #AI #GPUs #NVIDIA

Explore was incredible again. Attendees were locked in. Great conversations with customers, full focus during break-out sessions. It was an awesome week, one of the best I've ever had. #vmwareexplore2025

Why you want to use Enhanced vMotion for vGPU VMs in VCF 9.0 for LLM workloads: tinyurl.com/yu2nd3nh #AI #LLM #VCF #NVIDIA #VMware #vMotion

A WHOLE NEW 'kitten kaboodle' of software systems! An excerpt from 'Cloud Native AI' paper by @CloudNativeFdn, shared by @FrankDenneman of @VMware [by @Broadcom] Link to paper: cncf.io/wp-content/upl…

Hey it’s @FrankDenneman in the @virtspeaking studio at #VMwareExplore

@VMware (by @Broadcom) #VCF #LLM #RAG - Building an Efficient AI Ingestion Pipeline: A Guide for Infrastructure Teams on Data Transformation and Vector Database Optimization (by @FrankDenneman) @VMwareCloud @VMwareVCF #vExpertHybridCloud @vExpert dy.si/Brv6mR2

Check out my latest article: Building an Efficient AI Ingestion Pipeline: Data Ingestion Strategies linkedin.com/pulse/building… via @LinkedIn

New blog post: Building an Efficient AI Ingestion Pipeline: A Guide for Infrastructure Teams on Data Transformation and Vector Database Optimization linkedin.com/pulse/building… #AI #RAG #VMware

@jamesrvh724 @lamw I watched the AI session from @vhojan and @FrankDenneman - that’s a must watch!

@johjustinmurray helping that audience understand the key concepts of VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA. Waiting line outside #AI