Rakesh Kumar

Vice President

AI Infrastructure Solutions and Performance Benchmarking

Rakesh Kumar is the Vice President for Cisco's AI Infrastructure Solutions and Performance Benchmarking. He has an extensive background in developing networking silicon and systems, security platforms, and parallel computing systems. Currently, he leads Cisco’s AI Infrastructure solutions and Performance Benchmarking team to ensure that Cisco solutions meet and exceed industry performance metrics, helping our customers achieve optimal performance.

Articles

DATA CENTER

Rakesh Kumar

Scale-across: Why the future of distributed AI isn’t in one data center

6 min read

AI workloads are outgrowing the standalone data centers. Discover how a “scale-across” Ethernet fabric unifies distributed clusters, backed by Cisco Zeus AI Lab benchmarking, to ensure peak performance and ROI across any distance.

DATA CENTER

Rakesh Kumar

Benchmarking scale-out AI fabrics with Cisco N9000 + AMD Pensando™ Pollara 400 NICs

6 min read

Cisco N9000 switches and AMD Pensando Pollara 400 NICs deliver a high-performance AI fabric. MLPerf-validated, this solution eliminates GPU underutilization, maximizing ROI by accelerating enterprise AI training and inference workloads.

DATA CENTER

Rakesh Kumar

Uncompromised Ethernet: Performance and Benchmarking for AI/ML Fabric

4 min read

Highlights the benefits of Ethernet over InfiniBand in AI/ML environments, focusing on Cisco Silicon One’s ability to manage network congestion and enhance performance for AI/ML workloads. It underscores the significance of benchmarking and KPI metrics in assessing network solutions, featuring the Cisco Zeus Cluster with 128 NVIDIA H100 GPUs and advanced congestion management technologies like dynamic load balancing and packet spray.