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ames Singer graduated from Utah State University with a BS and MS in electrical engineering and began his career
working in the server industry as a hardware design engineer and as a technologist for the last 29 years employed
by Compaq, RLX Technologies, HP/HPE and Everspin. For the past three years, James has worked as a technologist
in Dell Technologies' CTIO office, focusing on Intelligent Connected Vehicles (ICV) and Edge-use cases.
How many miles would autonomous
vehicles have to drive to
demonstrate they are safer than a
human driver?
Each year automobile crashes result
in about one fatality per 100
million miles driven. A study conducted
by the Rand Corporation
estimates that to properly train an
autonomous vehicle to perform
equivalent to a human driver requires
8.8 Billion miles, and 11
Billion miles to perform 20% better
than a human driver. With a
fleet of 100 autonomous vehicles
being test-driven 24-hours-a-day,
365 days a year at an average
speed of 25 mph, that would take
more than 400 years. Increasing
the safety and reliability of an autonomous
vehicle requires billions
of simulated miles and hundreds
of thousands of captured and decorated
simulated scenarios to supplement the millions of
miles driven by a real-world fleet. All this can be accomplished
in an infrastructure optimized for Machine
Learning Operations, Software-in-the-Loop (SiL) development
and testing and Hardware-in-the-Loop (HiL) validation
in an on-premises or multi-cloud environment.
Also of utmost importance is the software-application
ecosystem. Aligning and partnering with the best software
application expertise in the automotive industry
(bit.ly/3ChMrlO) will be the optimal path to success.
James Singer
True or false: Managing a small environment is the same
as managing a large scale-out environment.
False. Managing up to 10 servers and a few GB's of storage
is very different than managing thousands or even tens of
thousands of servers and hundreds of PBs of storage.
Consider the analogy of owning one cow versus a herd of
cattle. At scale, the primary focus is herd management, not
the care and feeding of individual animals. Optimizing at
small scale and preparing for large-scale operation requires
us to first understand the fundamental challenges of
a growing environment. The amount of storage and compute
grows exponentially as customers move from SAE L2
to L5 autonomy. This requires looking ahead to the future
and investing in platforms that can easily scale with increasing
data requirements.
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What value does the Edge offer to
companies in the automotive space?
Industry analysts predict that more
than 50% of new IT infrastructure
will be deployed at the edge by
2023. And the number of new operational
processes deployed on
edge infrastructure will grow from
less than 20% today to more than
90% by 2024 (bit.ly/3cdBvef). The
Edge represents both a dramatic
opportunity and a potential stumbling
block due to the physical
limitations that are often found
locally, as well as the imposed
constraints of latency and data
gravity that make it difficult to
transport data to clouds. Dell
Technologies is in a unique position
to provide a complete Edge
solution for the auto-motive industry,
with experience managing,
operating, and securing heterogenous
systems deployed at a massive scale that are remotely
and widely distributed. In fact, 69% of Fortune
100 companies already use Dell Technologies for their
edge computing solutions.
Why is Dell Technologies important to the automotive
industry?
Dell Technologies has years of experience building server
and storage systems and managing data at scale - some
80% of the leading automotive suppliers use Dell
PowerScale storage (bit.ly/3l08GHd). Dell is also making
significant Edge investments to enable the automotive
industry to capture, process and manage massive
amounts of data. using end-to-end infrastructure solutions
spanning HPC, compute, storage, acceleration, and
networking capabilities. Automotive customers choose to
work with us because of our years of experience with
large Enterprise and Edge environments, expertise in
data management and our robust portfolio of partnerships.
Dell Technologies has a clear vision of the entire
automotive pipeline from the Edge to Core to Cloud.
Bookmark Dell.to/automotive-events to be the first to
read about upcoming automotive innovations from
Dell Technologies.
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