DENVER, Nov. 15,
2023 /PRNewswire/ -- From Supercomputing 2023, WekaIO
(WEKA), the data platform software provider for AI and other
performance-intensive workloads, announced today that it is working
with Applied Digital Corporation (Nasdaq: APLD), a designer,
builder, and operator of next-generation digital infrastructure for
high-performance computing (HPC) applications and workloads, to
provide an underlying accelerated software architecture
underpinning its recently launched AI Cloud Service. Applied
Digital is developing a turnkey offering that allows enterprise
customers to purchase and use GPU resources on-demand, at scale,
across its data centers for AI model training and inference in
virtualized, bare-metal, and containerization environments.
WEKA has partnered with Applied Digital to
improve GPU utilization and efficiency for AI customers.
Artificial intelligence (AI) holds significant business
potential that many enterprises are eager to capitalize on, like
supporting the creation of new value propositions, increasing
operational efficiencies, and accelerating research and development
or time to insight.
However, the high cost and complexity of owning and operating
thousands of GPUs for AI is prohibitive. Customers turn to
providers like Applied Digital for cloud access to support AI and
HPC workloads. Applied Digital's customers use some of the world's
largest GPU clusters, with plans to scale to 10,000 GPUs or more
per cluster, requiring data access of one terabyte per second or
more.
The WEKA® Data Platform optimizes data pipelines for
generative AI and HPC workloads, boosting GPU data center
efficiency. WEKA customers can achieve 1.8 terabytes per second of
bandwidth in a single rack, lowering infrastructure costs and
energy usage, improving GPU utilization by up to 20 times, and
reducing training time by 10-100 times.
Applied Digital has partnered with WEKA to improve GPU
utilization and efficiency, deliver high-performance data storage
and management capabilities, simplify data onboarding, and allow
customers to seamlessly scale deployments ranging from a fraction
of a GPU to tens of thousands of GPU servers.
"The rapid rise of generative AI has intensified demand for the
GPUs required to build AI models and applications, but many
businesses don't want to deal with the complexity or expense of
owning and housing them," said Mike
Maniscalco, Chief Technology Officer at Applied Digital.
"Customers looking for a facility to provide access to large-scale
GPU servers on-demand are hard-pressed to find it. Applied
Digital's AI Cloud Service offerings were created to improve that
access, and the WEKA Data Platform has been key to helping our GPUs
run more efficiently and cost-effectively at scale with exceptional
performance – and pass those benefits on to our customers."
"Visionary companies like Applied Digital are wisely responding
to skyrocketing demand for GPU-accelerated computing resources at
scale by creating innovative "GPU-as-a-service" offerings to
support the development of generative AI applications on demand.
But running large-scale, multi-GPU clusters is hugely performance
and resource-intensive – if you can't fully maximize the potential
of your GPUs or keep their energy consumption in check, you can't
deliver optimal productivity, cost optimization, and value to your
customers," said Jonathan Martin,
president at WEKA. "This is quite literally what the WEKA Data
Platform was built for. WEKA is proud to be on the bleeding edge of
this rapidly emerging market, helping to bring maximum performance,
flexibility, efficiency, and sustainability to the world's leading
GPU cloud providers."
About Applied Digital
Applied Digital Corporation
(Nasdaq: APLD) designs, develops and operates next-generation data
centers across North America to
provide digital infrastructure solutions to the rapidly growing
high-performance computing (HPC) industry. Find more information at
www.applieddigital.com. Follow us on Twitter at @APLDdigital.
About WEKA
WEKA is leading a paradigm shift in how data is stored, managed,
and processed in the cloud and AI era. The WEKA® Data
Platform is a software solution transforming stagnant data silos
into dynamic data pipelines that power GPUs efficiently and fuel
performance-intensive workloads seamlessly and sustainably. Its
advanced cloud-native architecture is optimized to solve complex
data challenges at scale, delivering 10-100x performance
improvements across edge, core, cloud, hybrid and multicloud
environments. WEKA helps the world's leading data-driven
organizations accelerate research and discovery breakthroughs and
business outcomes – including 11 of the Fortune 50. The company
operates in over 20 countries globally and is backed by dozens of
world-class investors. Learn more at www.weka.io, or connect with
us on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook.
WEKA and the WEKA logo are registered
trademarks of WekaIO, Inc. Other trade names used herein may be
trademarks of their respective owners.
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