DDN Appliance Upgrades Boost Gpu Performance And Capacity Efficiency For AI Processing
SiliconANGLE, Thursday, November 21st, 2024
With the launch this week of upgrades for its data intelligence platform, DataDirect Networks Inc. has signaled its intent to bring significant scalability and GPU performance to the infrastructure necessary for processing AI workloads.
The company's deep integration with NVIDIA Corp. GPUs and the introduction of its next generation A3I data platform are designed to translate into faster AI training and delivery of real-time insights.
'Our largest customer has a hundred thousand GPUs, and overall we're supporting 500,000 GPUs globally - we've just doubled the density of our appliance,' said James Coomer, senior vice president of products at DDN. 'Performance efficiency and capacity efficiency are crucial to our customers. Huge data centers, they're struggling for power, struggling for space and struggling for GPUs. Our job is to help them reduce the amount of instruction they spend on our piece and deliver new acceleration.'