Nevena Milinković
Senior Technical Manager / Nutanix
Nevena is a Senior Technical Manager at Nutanix Serbia, where she has spent more than seven years building and leading a team of engineers responsible for our hypervisor - AHV, a virtualization software that manages the lifecycle and resources of virtual machines. Her team tackles complex control plane challenges, including GPUs management, hotspot mitigation, and cross cluster live migration. Their work has a global impact, empowering the virtualization stack that supports many of Nutanix’s 31,000+ customers.
Where Virtualization Fits in the AI Factory Infrastructure?
The infrastructure required to power AI workloads has been more demanding than ever, forcing enterprises to make a big compromise. They are running the workloads directly on physical servers to gain optimal performance, but that can often mean trading on the security aspects, isolation, and lifecycle management.
In this talk, Nevena will explain how Nutanix overcomes this gap and how we can achieve near bare-metal performance for AI workloads without losing the benefits of virtualization. We will see how AHV hypervisor makes optimal VM placement decisions by understanding the full hardware topology and device interconnections. She will show how system-defined VM profiles make deployment workflow simple for the end user on complex, GPU-dense systems, such as Nvidia HGX.
We will go one layer above the hypervisor as well to see how Nutanix leverages its Kubernetes Platform (NKP) to enable optimal deployments of AI workloads.