Techy Tuesdays Monthly Meet-Up

This is a regular monthly meet-up aimed to bring local digital and tech businesses together to meet and connect. Attendees can simply come to the lunchtime meet-up or take up the option to work at Society1 at a discounted rate for the day and join in the meet-up around lunchtime whilst making the most of the facilities available.

The Tech Meet-Up is held 12 noon - 1pm on the ground floor, hosted by Lancashire Digital Hub.

Attendees are welcome to take advantage of a discounted day pass at Society1 to enjoy a day of coworking. Anyone attending the lunchtime meet-up is eligible to a discounted day pass at £16 to work at Society1 9am - 5pm on the day of the Tech Meet-Up. If you would like to book your day pass simply email the Society1 team at work@society1.co.uk to book you in.

What to expect from this monthly meet-up, hosted by Lancashire Digital Hub :

Each month there will be a guest speaker / topic facilitator to get the meet-up started. 

 Following this there will be opportunity to join the discussion. There will also be an opportunity the get to know other attendees with some time for informal networking. The meet-up will last for for around an hour (12 noon - 1pm)

The speaker for this month's Techy Tuesday is James Wright.

Title: Hardware-Accelerated Containerization with the NVIDIA Container Toolkit.

Description:
The advent and adoption of containerization technologies, such as Docker and the subsequent OCI specification, have revolutionized how we develop and deploy our software; we can consistently run our applications and services between environments regardless of the underlying host's operating system or processor architecture, and the adjacent tooling massively improves developer experience. These portability and isolation benefits have seen the introduction of the container primitive to the GPU, with NVIDIA providing its own toolkit and runtime for running containerized applications in a hardware-accelerated environment.

In this talk, I'll introduce the NVIDIA Container Toolkit and its underlying runtime before delving into how it can be—and when and why it should be—used to run containerized CUDA applications such as TensorFlow models and Blender rendering pipelines, complementing existing Docker primitives and tooling. I'll also touch upon how it can be integrated with Kubernetes, allowing us to cluster our hardware-accelerated software across complex node topologies.

Looking forward to seeing you all there!!