Artificial Intelligence and BrooksNetworks

The AI Development world and our growing focus on all that surrounds AI.

 

BrooksNetworks has been providing Managed IT Services and network consulting in Orange County, California for well over a decade.  Our first customers happened to be companies based on the creative process. Designing everything from shopping centers to watches. We have built our networking models to withstand the stress they must endure to survive the creative process throughout the infrastructure of a small business network.  We have learned  to always design and implement systems with very low tolerance for inefficiencies and failures. Our core customer base has remained focused on dealing with the tough stuff.  Providing the right solutions for design, marketing and engineering firms who have relied on high-end hardware in order to produce results for their clients.

 

These vertical markets tend to benefit from solutions that push the technology development curve forward when it comes to merging data sources, digital presentation and dynamic manipulation of the process. We have, in turn, found it advantageous to stay ahead of the technological curve.  The outward advent of our plans to focus on Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Design and Rendering systems and other graphic-intense processes are new to us in many ways, but at the core of this evolutionary milestone in our industry, lies the element of "business as usual" when it comes to our approach to vetting and implementing specific systems.  We are not alone in understanding that there will always be something new on the horizon.  Tomorrow will always bring a solution that will lead to the functional antiquation of today's systems. This perpetual sprint forward in technology makes our job as a consultative body for our customer one of the most important things we do.  If our recommendations to invest in infrastructure turns out to be a failure a small business may lose their ability to compete.  Needless to say, we take our own research and benchmarking processes very seriously.

 

In late 2014 we begin to implement a cloud render farm which was designed specifically to utilize the power of GPU's to render digital output that has relied on CPUs for as long as rendering from the moment small businesses, namely small engineering and architectural firms as well as independent advertising agencies were given the power to create original digital content themselves..

 

Computer Aided Design (CAD) technology gave individuals the ability to take their artistic vision and turn that vision directly into elaborate, artwork,, precise structural plans  and  animations.  Over the course of a few years,  an end to the freehand pencil "sketchpad"  would be replaced ubiquitously, by resource-hungry applications along with a familiar interface allowing the user to drawl on an intuitive superficial device that acted as a piece of paper,.  This device rightly named "Sketchpad" simplified the paradigm shift in the mind's of designers. There was very little merit one could use to argue against the transition into CAD systems. The science of design would quickly realize the efficiencies of having the process aided by computers. There would be no turning back.

 

The CAD evolution from that point until today has been the second largest influence pushing the need for faster more reliable personal computers. (If you were thinking video games were the primary driving force, you are correct) The capabilities of the hardware and the functionality of the software would constantly push the evolution of technology to its limits.  This has never been more true than it is today.

 

Our original concept, providing organizations who are actively producing digital media in-house, a cost effective alternative to using their internal systems for these hardware-intense rendering processes has become one of our flourishing endeavors over that short period of time.  The concept of outsourcing the resource intense process of rendering is far from ground breaking.  It is a concept and a service that is provided through "Render Farms" all over the world.  However, most of these data processing houses have been engineered for CPU-based rendering.  Unfortunately, the CPU render model is quickly being replaced by a GPU-centric systems. This has created a serious business issue for the providers who have established render farms based on a processing model that was the standard up until very recently.  BrooksNetworks was lucky enough to find out very early in our procurement process that capital investment in GPU systems was key to having a competitive edge.

 

As we developed our systems, we not  only began to notice that GPU rendering was much faster than CPU processes of that nature, we also notice a paradigm shift to use the power of GPU processing architecture to tackle then new generations of AR, VR and AI.

 

In turn, we decided to put our development efforts into a much broader scope than to simply flatten digital media for delivery.  The systems we developed, with NVidia GPUs at the core, have been proven to be the "go to" platform for the giants of the tech industry and our efforts are now in tandem with those widely publicized efforts put forth by the leaders in AI development today.  This section of our website is devoted these three terms, and how they are all part of this rapidly evolving stage in technology.  Monumental strides are bing made with relation to Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality.  These huge leaps forward are made possible by the enormous processing power coming to market.  This race to harness data, and to create systems we can hardly imagine has created an ultra competitive environment of development.  So competitive that the technological giants involved have done the unthinkable.  They have all concluded that they must develop their systems in an open source manner.  Does this surprise you?  if the newsworthiness of this decision is any indication, i think everyone in the technology industry is more than just a little intrigued.