diff --git a/docs/reference-architectures/cisco-ucs-llm-serving/README.md b/docs/reference-architectures/cisco-ucs-llm-serving/README.md index 5319a031e..a01394fba 100644 --- a/docs/reference-architectures/cisco-ucs-llm-serving/README.md +++ b/docs/reference-architectures/cisco-ucs-llm-serving/README.md @@ -237,3 +237,5 @@ enough that dedicated GPU compute would sit largely idle between bursts, the CPU deployable option rather than a fallback of last resort. The GPU wins clearly on latency and throughput at scale; AMX makes the CPU competitive enough that the choice is meaningful rather than obvious. + +Both serving instances were provisioned through Spinifex's EC2-compatible endpoint as standard EC2 instance types — `m8i.2xlarge` for the CPU path, `g6.2xlarge` for the GPU path — with standard `aws ec2` CLI calls. Teams already operating AWS infrastructure can point their existing tooling at a Spinifex node with a single profile swap. diff --git a/docs/reference-architectures/cisco-ucs-platform-benchmark/README.md b/docs/reference-architectures/cisco-ucs-platform-benchmark/README.md index efac517b0..e370f5e53 100644 --- a/docs/reference-architectures/cisco-ucs-platform-benchmark/README.md +++ b/docs/reference-architectures/cisco-ucs-platform-benchmark/README.md @@ -235,3 +235,5 @@ for CPU-bound concurrent work is 2 worker processes per 8-vCPU instance before l degrades — confirmed as compute contention rather than a storage or network ceiling — while the GPU instance shows no strain through the full sweep, consistent with the L4 sitting at 22–35% utilisation under a single worker. + +All benchmark instances were provisioned through Spinifex's EC2-compatible endpoint using standard `aws ec2` CLI calls — the same instance types, placement groups, and security groups that work on AWS work here unchanged. Teams already operating AWS infrastructure can point their existing tooling at a Spinifex node with a single profile swap. diff --git a/docs/reference-architectures/cisco-ucs-vision-pipeline/README.md b/docs/reference-architectures/cisco-ucs-vision-pipeline/README.md index 95969d445..dc3f6b983 100644 --- a/docs/reference-architectures/cisco-ucs-vision-pipeline/README.md +++ b/docs/reference-architectures/cisco-ucs-vision-pipeline/README.md @@ -233,12 +233,15 @@ model artefacts worth keeping should be copied to Predastore before running this ### 6. Conclusion -This pipeline demonstrates a genuinely mixed CPU/GPU edge-AI workload — Intel +This pipeline demonstrates a mixed CPU/GPU edge-AI workload — Intel AMX-accelerated detection and NVIDIA L4-accelerated captioning, running as independent EC2-compatible instances against a shared S3-compatible object store, on Cisco Unified Edge hardware managed entirely through standard AWS tooling. AMX delivers a real, accuracy-neutral 2.4–3x throughput gain on this hardware; the L4 leaves significant headroom at this workload's current scale; and streaming from a central bucket rather -than a private local volume costs 59–62% throughput, precisely because each frame is a -small, latency- rather than bandwidth-bound request — a concrete, measured answer to -what "the edge-AI pipeline is S3-backed" actually costs, not just a claim that it works. +than a private local volume costs 59–62% throughput, because each frame is a +small, latency- rather than bandwidth-bound request. Teams already operating +AWS infrastructure can point their existing tooling at a Spinifex node with a +single profile swap — EC2 instances, Viperblock EBS volumes, Predastore S3 +buckets, and OVN VPC networking all provisioned from the same Terraform +resources that work on AWS.