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Join Microsoft at GTC, a global technology conference running March 20 – 23, 2023, to learn how organizations of any size can power AI innovation with purpose-built cloud infrastructure from Microsoft. 


 


Microsoft’s Azure AI supercomputing infrastructure is uniquely designed for AI workloads and helps build and train some of the industry’s most advanced AI solutions. From data preparation to model and infrastructure performance management, Azure’s comprehensive portfolio of powerful and massively scalable GPU-accelerated virtual machines (VMs) and seamless integration with services like Azure Batch and open-source solutions helps streamline management and automation of large AI models and infrastructure. 


 


Attend GTC to discover how Azure AI infrastructure optimized for AI performance can deliver speed and scale in the cloud and help you reduce the complexity of building, training, and bringing AI models into production. Register today! GTC Developer Conference is a free online event.  


 


Microsoft sessions at NVIDIA GTC 


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Add the below Microsoft sessions at GTC to your conference schedule to learn about the latest Azure AI infrastructure and dive deep into a variety of use cases and technologies.  


 


Featured sessions 


Accelerate AI Innovation with Unmatched Cloud Scale and Performance 


Thursday, Mar 23 | 7:00 AM – 7:50 AM MST  


Nidhi Chappell, General Manager, Azure HPC, AI, SAP and Confidential Computing 


Kathleen Mitford, Corporate Vice President, Azure Marketing, Microsoft 


Manuvir Das, Head of Enterprise Computing, NVIDIA


Azure’s purpose-built AI infrastructure is enabling leading organizations in AI to build a new era of innovative applications and services. The convergence of cloud flexibility and economics, with advances in cloud performance, is paving the way to accelerate AI initiatives across simulations, science, and industry. Whether you need to scale to 80,000 cores for MPI workloads, or you’re looking for AI supercomputing capabilities, Azure can support your needs. Learn more about Azures AI platform, our latest updates, and hear about customer experiences. 


 


Azure’s Purpose-Built AI Infrastructure Using the Latest NVIDIA GPU Accelerators 


On-demand 


Matt Vegas, Principal Product Manager, Microsoft 


Microsoft offers some of the most powerful and massively scalable Virtual Machines, optimized for AI workloads. Join us for an in-depth look at the latest updates for Azure’s ND series based on NVIDIA GPUs, engineered to deliver a combination of high-performance, interconnected GPUs, working in parallel, that can help you reduce complexity, minimize operational bottlenecks operations, and can deliver reliability at scale. 


 


Talks and panel sessions 




















































































Session ID



Session Title



Speakers



Primary Topic



S51226



Accelerating Large Language Models via Low-Bit Quantization



Young Jin Kim, Principal Researcher, Microsoft


Rawn Henry, Senior AI Developer Technology Engineer, NVIDIA



Deep Learning – Inference



S51204



Transforming Clouds to Cloud-Native Supercomputing: Best Practices with Microsoft Azure



Jithin Jose, Principal Software Engineer, Microsoft Azure


Gilad Shainer, SVP Networking, NVIDIA



HPC – Supercomputing



S51756



Accelerating AI in Federal Cloud Environments



Bill Chappel, Vice President of Mission Systems in Strategic Missions and Technology, Microsoft


Steven H. Walker, Chief Technology Officer, Lockheed Martin


Matthew Benigni, Chief Data Officer, Army Futures Command


Christi DeCuir, Director, Cloud Go-to-Market, NVIDIA



Data Center / Cloud – Business Strategy



S51703



Accelerating Disentangled Attention Mechanism in Language Models



Pengcheng He, Principal Researcher, Microsoft


Haohang Huang, Senior AI Engineer, NVIDIA



Conversational AI / NLP



S51422



SwinTransformer and its Training Acceleration



Han Hu, Principal Research Manager, Microsoft Research Asia


Li Tao, Tech Software Engineer, NVIDIA



Deep Learning – Training+



S51260



Multimodal Deep Learning for Protein Engineering



Kevin Yang, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research New England



Healthcare – Drug Discovery



S51945



Improving Dense Text Retrieval Accuracy with Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search



Menghao Li, Software Engineer, Microsoft


Akira Naruse, Senior Developer Technology Engineer, NVIDIA



Data Science



S51709



Hopper Confidential Computing: How it Works under the Hood



Antoine Delignat-Lavaud, Principal Researcher Microsoft Research, Microsoft


Phil Rogers, VP of System Software, NVIDIA



Data Center / Cloud Infrastructure – Technical



S51447



Data-Driven Approaches to Language Diversity



Kalika Bali, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research India


Caroline Gottlieb, Product Manager, Data Strategy, NVIDIA


Damian Blasi, Harvard Data Science Fellow, Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University


Bonaventure Dossou, Ph.D. Student, McGill University and Mila Quebec AI Institute


EM Lewis-Jong, Common Voice – Product Lead, Mozilla Foundation



Conversational AI / NLP



S51756a



Accelerating AI in Federal Cloud Environments, with Q&A from EMEA Region



Bill Chappel, Vice President of Mission Systems in Strategic Missions and Technology, Microsoft


Steven H. Walker, Chief Technology Officer, Lockheed Martin


Larry Brown, SA Manager, NVIDIA


Christi DeCuir, Director, Cloud Go-to-Market, NVIDIA



Data Center / Cloud – Business Strategy



S51589



Accelerating Wind Energy Forecasts with AceCast



Amirreza Rastegari, Senior Program Manager, Azure Specialized Compute, Microsoft


Gene Pache, TempoQuest



HPC – Climate / Weather / Ocean Modeling



S51278



Next-Generation AI for Improving Building Security and Safety



Adina Trufinescu, Senior Program Manager, Azure Specialized Compute, Microsoft



Computer Vision – AI Video Analytics



 


Deep Learning Institute Workshops and Labs 


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We are proud to host NVIDIA’s Deep Learning Institute (DLI) training at NVIDIA GTC. Attend full-day, hands-on, instructor-led workshops or two-hour free training labs to get up to speed on the latest technology and breakthroughs. Hosted on Microsoft Azure, these sessions enable and empower you to leverage NVIDIA GPUs on the Azure platform to solve the world’s most interesting and relevant problems.  


Register for a Deep Learning Institute workshop or lab today! 


 


Learn more about Azure AI infrastructure 



Whether your project is big or small, local or global, Microsoft Azure is empowering companies worldwide to push the boundaries of AI innovation. Learn how you can make AI your reality.  


Azure AI Infrastructure 


Azure AI Platform 


Accelerating AI and HPC in the Cloud 


AI-first Infrastructure and Toolchain at Any Scale 


The case for AI in the Azure Cloud 


AI Infrastructure for Smart Manufacturing 


AI Infrastructure for Smart Retail 

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