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NVIDIA Announces New Switches Optimized for Trillion-Parameter GPU Computing and AI Infrastructure

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Monday, March 18, 2024
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The world’s first networking platforms capable of end-to-end 800Gb/s throughput, NVIDIA Quantum-X800 InfiniBand and NVIDIA Spectrum™-X800 Ethernet push the boundaries of networking performance for computing and AI workloads.

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  • The world’s first networking platforms capable of end-to-end 800Gb/s throughput, NVIDIA Quantum-X800 InfiniBand and NVIDIA Spectrum™-X800 Ethernet push the boundaries of networking performance for computing and AI workloads.
  • “NVIDIA Networking is central to the scalability of our AI supercomputing infrastructure,” said Gilad Shainer, senior vice president of Networking at NVIDIA.
  • “NVIDIA X800 switches are end-to-end networking platforms that enable us to achieve trillion-parameter-scale generative AI essential for new AI infrastructures.”
    Initial adopters of Quantum InfiniBand and Spectrum-X Ethernet include Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
  • Behind this transformation is the evolution of data centers into high-performance AI engines with increased demands for networking infrastructure,” said Nidhi Chappell, Vice President of AI Infrastructure at Microsoft Azure.

Hasura Supergraph Brings Unparalleled On-Demand Composability to APIs to Address Data and API Integration Challenges

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Tuesday, April 2, 2024
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Data API and GraphQL leader Hasura today announced the V3 of its platform, providing unparalleled on-demand API composability with a new domain-centric supergraph modeling framework, a distributed supergraph execution engine and a rich and extensible ecosystem of open source connectors to address the challenges faced during integration of data and APIs.

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  • Data API and GraphQL leader Hasura today announced the V3 of its platform, providing unparalleled on-demand API composability with a new domain-centric supergraph modeling framework, a distributed supergraph execution engine and a rich and extensible ecosystem of open source connectors to address the challenges faced during integration of data and APIs.
  • With ever-increasing data and service sprawl, fast, secure, and reliable API access to data is a common bottleneck in modern application development.
  • Build system, with instant API previews and rollback: Every iteration of the Hasura supergraph (changes to relations, permissions, data sources, etc.)
  • “We built the Hasura Data Delivery Network to answer a couple of hard questions,” said Tanmai Gopal, co-founder and CEO of Hasura.

DDN Delivers Four Terabytes per Second of Accelerated Storage Performance in Groundbreaking NVIDIA Eos AI Supercomputer

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Tuesday, March 19, 2024
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SAN JOSE, Calif., March 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- (GTC, DDN Booth #816) –  DDN®, the global leader in artificial intelligence (AI) and multi-cloud data management solutions, announces its successful implementation of DDN EXAScaler® AI storage (A3I®) in NVIDIA Eos, a TOP10 supercomputer based on NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD.  

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  • The result is 12 petabytes of DDN storage delivering four terabytes per second of data speed to serve an impressive 18.4 exaflops of FP8 NVIDIA AI performance.
  • NVIDIA Eos powers the largest AI workloads, large language models, recommender systems, and simulations delivering NVIDIA's latest AI innovations.
  • "NVIDIA DGX SuperPODs like Eos provide a full-stack blueprint for turnkey enterprise AI supercomputing, and DDN A3I delivers high performance, power efficient storage for Eos to deliver the data needed for advanced AI training."
  • DDN storage in NVIDIA Eos highlights what organizations and sovereign AI entities in data centers and the cloud can achieve.

DDN Appliance Combines AI Storage and NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs for Enhanced Full-Stack Data Center and Cloud Efficiency

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Tuesday, March 19, 2024
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SAN JOSE, Calif., March 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- (GTC, DDN Booth #816) -- DDN®, the global leader in artificial intelligence (AI) and multi-cloud data management solutions, today demonstrated its reference architecture, which integrates NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs into DDN EXAScaler® and Infinia storage appliances. Benefits extend to the full end-to-end AI data center stack, synergizing with networking platforms such as NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet for accelerating multi-tenant AI clouds.

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  • Benefits extend to the full end-to-end AI data center stack, synergizing with networking platforms such as NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet for accelerating multi-tenant AI clouds.
  • The added ability to distribute data operations to client or storage DPUs is critical for effective management and processing of AI data for generative AI clouds and data centers.
  • "DDN has seamlessly integrated NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs into its storage solutions, enabling organizations to scale their AI infrastructures with enhanced efficiency and delivering exceptional performance and value at rack- and data center-scale," said Rob Davis, vice president of storage technology at NVIDIA.
  • DDN will be exhibiting its DDN Infinia and EXAScaler solutions with NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs at booth #816 at NVIDIA GTC , a global AI conference, running through March 21.

DDN AI400X2 Turbo Appliance Accelerates Gen AI and Inference for Data Center and Cloud by 10x

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Tuesday, March 19, 2024
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SAN JOSE, Calif., March 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- GTC, DDN Booth #816 -- DDN®, the global leader in artificial intelligence (AI) and multi-cloud data management solutions, today announced the latest addition to its powerful A3I® solutions, the DDN AI400X2 Turbo. 30% more powerful than the AI400X2, the previous industry performance leader, the AI400X2 Turbo boasts faster performance and expanded connectivity options.

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  • How to Safely and Successfully Boost Your Data Center Productivity and ROI : Dr. James Coomer, senior vice president, Products, DDN, will demonstrate concrete technical industry examples on how to achieve full-stack and data center-scale acceleration with data storage solutions.
  • AI Data Summit: Faster and Safer GPU ROI Acceleration in Data Centers and the Cloud: DDN and NVIDIA : Dr. James Coomer, senior vice president, Products, DDN, will join NVIDIA and Lambda to explore how to deploy and scale GPU infrastructures faster and how those deployments can be made more efficient and cost-effective.
  • Accelerate Generative AI ROI and End-to-End ML Life Cycles for LLM by Optimizing Data Architectures : Dr. James Coomer, senior vice president, Products, DDN, will explore how data architectures can accelerate generative AI ROI and end-to-end ML life cycles for LLM.
  • Optimizing AI Data Centers: Advanced Accelerated Data Storage Strategies for Enhanced Productivity and Efficiency : Dr. James Coomer, senior vice president, Products, DDN, will provide a technical presentation that focuses on optimizing NVIDIA GPU data centers through AI-accelerated data storage solutions.

DDN AI400X2 Turbo Appliance Accelerates Gen AI and Inference for Data Center and Cloud by 10x

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Monday, March 18, 2024
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SAN JOSE, Calif., March 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- GTC, DDN Booth #816 -- DDN®, the global leader in artificial intelligence (AI) and multi-cloud data management solutions, today announced the latest addition to its powerful A3I® solutions, the DDN AI400X2 Turbo. 30% more powerful than the AI400X2, the previous industry performance leader, the AI400X2 Turbo boasts faster performance and expanded connectivity options.

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  • How to Safely and Successfully Boost Your Data Center Productivity and ROI : Dr. James Coomer, senior vice president, Products, DDN, will demonstrate concrete technical industry examples on how to achieve full-stack and data center-scale acceleration with data storage solutions.
  • AI Data Summit: Faster and Safer GPU ROI Acceleration in Data Centers and the Cloud: DDN and NVIDIA : Dr. James Coomer, senior vice president, Products, DDN, will join NVIDIA and Lambda to explore how to deploy and scale GPU infrastructures faster and how those deployments can be made more efficient and cost-effective.
  • Accelerate Generative AI ROI and End-to-End ML Life Cycles for LLM by Optimizing Data Architectures : Dr. James Coomer, senior vice president, Products, DDN, will explore how data architectures can accelerate generative AI ROI and end-to-end ML life cycles for LLM.
  • Optimizing AI Data Centers: Advanced Accelerated Data Storage Strategies for Enhanced Productivity and Efficiency : Dr. James Coomer, senior vice president, Products, DDN, will provide a technical presentation that focuses on optimizing NVIDIA GPU data centers through AI-accelerated data storage solutions.

DDN to Support Deployment of New Large-Scale NVIDIA GPU Clouds

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Monday, March 18, 2024
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SAN JOSE, Calif., March 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- (GTC, DDN Booth #816) -- DDN®, the global leader in artificial intelligence (AI) and multi-cloud data management solutions, today announced worldwide support for Cloud Partners in the NVIDIA Partner Network hosting large-scale GPU services. This support expands upon DDN's success with NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD customers and AI cloud providers building hosted solutions for large-scale model training.

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  • DDN Supplies Optimized Data Management Solutions to Cloud Partners in the NVIDIA Partner Network for Distributed Training of LLMs, Foundation Models & Generative AI
    SAN JOSE, Calif., March 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- (GTC, DDN Booth #816) -- DDN ®, the global leader in artificial intelligence (AI) and multi-cloud data management solutions, today announced worldwide support for Cloud Partners in the NVIDIA Partner Network hosting large-scale GPU services.
  • This support expands upon DDN's success with NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD customers and AI cloud providers building hosted solutions for large-scale model training.
  • DDN announces worldwide support for Cloud Partners in the NVIDIA Partner Network hosting large-scale GPU services.
  • With a strong track record of deployments backing hundreds of thousands of NVIDIA GPUs worldwide, DDN has repeatedly demonstrated its ability to make GPU-based cloud implementations more efficient and cost-effective.

Vultr Expands Footprint with New NVIDIA Cloud GPU Capacity Using Clean, Renewable, Hydropower in Sabey Data Centers

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Tuesday, March 5, 2024
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Vultr , the world’s largest privately-held cloud computing platform, today announced the expansion of its Seattle cloud data center region at Sabey Data Centers’ ​​ SDC Columbia location.

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  • Vultr , the world’s largest privately-held cloud computing platform, today announced the expansion of its Seattle cloud data center region at Sabey Data Centers’ ​​ SDC Columbia location.
  • Vultr’s expansion includes a significant new inventory of NVIDIA HGX H100 GPU clusters, available both on demand and through reserved instance contracts.
  • Sabey, one of the largest privately-owned multi-tenant data center operators in the U.S., builds and maintains energy-efficient data centers with the goal of reaching net-zero carbon emissions by 2029.
  • For more information about Vultr's cloud computing solutions and cloud data center locations, visit https://www.vultr.com/products/cloud-gpu/ .

Vultr and DDN Partner to Advance Innovation in AI and High-Performance Computing

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Tuesday, November 14, 2023
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Today, Vultr , the world’s largest privately-held cloud computing platform, announced that DDN ®, the global leader in artificial intelligence (AI) and multi-cloud data management solutions, is the latest ecosystem partner to join the Vultr Cloud Alliance .

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  • Today, Vultr , the world’s largest privately-held cloud computing platform, announced that DDN ®, the global leader in artificial intelligence (AI) and multi-cloud data management solutions, is the latest ecosystem partner to join the Vultr Cloud Alliance .
  • For organizations driving transformation through AI, the ability to optimize data infrastructure while benefiting from a dynamic cloud ecosystem is key.
  • "Combining DDN's robust storage for superior performance for large language models, generative AI, and machine learning applications with Vultr's globally distributed best-in-class computing capabilities eliminates these barriers."
  • Together, we are helping innovators advance their AI initiatives, while ensuring optimized data operations on a scalable cloud foundation.”
    DDN is the latest partner to join the Vultr Cloud Alliance.

DDN and Sandia National Laboratories Collaboration Expands Infinia Data Platform Ecosystem for Data at Scale and Parallel Workloads

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Tuesday, November 14, 2023
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CHATSWORTH, Calif., Nov. 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- DDN®, the global leader in artificial intelligence (AI) and multi-cloud data management solutions, collaborated with Sandia National Laboratories to enhance its DDN Infinia ecosystem support and optimization for high-performance computing (HPC) workloads. The result is enhanced data provisioning, high-performance at scale and quality of service (QoS) benefits for Sandia's extreme data, scale and parallelism workload needs.

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  • The result is enhanced data provisioning, high-performance at scale and quality of service (QoS) benefits for Sandia's extreme data, scale and parallelism workload needs.
  • "Working with DDN to influence the capabilities of its data management platform for our wide range of interfaces with different usage requirements addresses interesting challenges," said James Laros, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories.
  • DDN has been a trusted technology partner, demonstrating it can handle today's data requirements with the ability to scale and troubleshoot potential data needs of tomorrow."
  • Our collaboration with Sandia has allowed us to further expand DDN Infinia's data management capabilities that will meet their complex requirements today and well into the future."