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.
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.