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Nic Cope
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Nic Cope

Sr Principal Engineer, Upbound

Nic is a Senior Principal Engineer at Upbound and a core maintainer of Modelplane and Crossplane. He's spent the last 15+ years working on cloud and infrastructure, including designing and building Crossplane from v0.1 through v2.0, and is now bringing that work to AI inference with Modelplane.

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Modelplane v0.4: NVIDIA Dynamo and AI Cluster Runtime
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Modelplane v0.4: NVIDIA Dynamo and AI Cluster Runtime

Modelplane v0.4 can serve models with NVIDIA Dynamo for gang scheduling and fast P2P weight transfer, and can build the software each cluster runs at hardware-validated versions from NVIDIA AI Cluster Runtime. Cloud providers start on demand.

Nic Cope
Nic Cope
·8 min read
Why Day 0 for Nemotron 3.5 Lightning wasn't a scramble
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Why Day 0 for Nemotron 3.5 Lightning wasn't a scramble

NVIDIA released Nemotron-3.5-Lightning this morning. It was running on Modelplane by the afternoon, without a line of new Modelplane code, because day-zero model support is built into the design, not a scramble by the team.

Nic Cope
Nic Cope
·4 min read