Daniel Kallner
Daniel Kallner is the Founder and CTO of Octopus Computer Solutions, bringing over two decades of leadership in cloud platforms, large-scale infrastructure, and production systems. He has led complex deployments from first principles, building and scaling platforms that support billions of transactions daily. With deep expertise in open-source technologies—especially Kubernetes, OpenStack, and GPU-accelerated platforms—Daniel works closely with engineering teams and Fortune 500 organizations worldwide as a trusted technical advisor.
OctavaAI was created to share this hands-on experience, focusing on how AI systems operate in real production environments, and to provide practical insights into building, running, and scaling AI platforms beyond theory and demos.
Deploying and Using NVIDIA KAI Scheduler in Production
Introduction Running AI workloads in production is no longer just about having GPUs – it is about using them efficiently across multiple jobs and teams AT THE SAME TIME. As Inference adoption grows, organizations will discover that simple GPU allocation leads to fragmentation, idle resources, and scheduling conflicts. This is where NVIDIA KAI Scheduler comes […]
Hello, Real-World AI
Real-world AI is where models leave notebooks. GPUs are shared, schedulers make decisions, memory fragments, GPU fractions, latency matters, and “it worked on my computer” just isn’t enough. OctavaAI was created to focus on this exact moment – where theory meets systems, and where AI engineers and data scientists need more than benchmarks to succeed. […]