5 November 2024, Tue |
2:30 PM
NetApp, a global, cloud-led, data-centric software company, announced that NetApp EF600 all-flash NVMe storage combined with the BeeGFS parallel file system is now NVIDIA DGX SuperPODTM certified. The new certification streamlines AI and HPC infrastructure, allowing for faster implementation of these use cases.
Since 2018, NetApp and NVIDIA have provided hundreds of customers with a variety of solutions ranging from the establishment of AI Centers of Excellence to the resolution of massive-scale AI training challenges. The qualification of NetApp EF600 and BeeGFS file systems for DGX SuperPOD is the latest addition to the companies’ comprehensive set of AI solutions.
“The NetApp and NVIDIA alliance has delivered industry-leading innovation for years, and this new qualification for NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD builds on that momentum,” said Walid Issa, Senior Manager, PreSales and Solutions Engineering – Middle East Region at NetApp. “As performance and data demands are exploding, NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD, coupled with ONTAP AI platform and DGX Foundry AI service, ensures our customers get the best-in-class model training infrastructure, with the full support of AI industry leaders.”
“Organizations modernizing their business with AI and HPC need performance, flexibility and choice as they architect their infrastructure,” said Charlie Boyle, Vice President of DGX systems at NVIDIA. “Our collaboration with NetApp enables customers building their own AI Centers of Excellence to now choose NetApp storage for their NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD, as well as use the same leading platform available as hosted infrastructure through NVIDIA DGX Foundry.”
NetApp’s portfolio of NVIDIA-accelerated solutions includes ONTAP AI, which uses a field-proven reference architecture to eliminate guesswork for faster adoption, as well as a preconfigured, integrated solution that is easy to procure and deploy in a turnkey manner.
NVIDIA DGX Foundry, which includes NVIDIA Base Command software, and NetApp Keystone Flex Subscription are also included. This combination offers a world-class hosted infrastructure solution for businesses and data scientists who require a premium AI development experience without the hassle of building it themselves.
NetApp, in partnership with NVIDIA, also provides tailored solutions for a variety of industries, including financial services, medicine, manufacturing, retail, higher education, and government, and has sponsored and facilitated ideation workshops for customers embarking on AI journeys in order to accelerate success while mitigating risk.
“The AI lifecycle focus has moved up the development stack and away from the infrastructure management, driving the need for converged solutions and services that make it easier for organizations to simplify their infrastructure investments for AI use cases deployments,” said Ritu Jyoti, Group Vice President, AI/Automation Research & Advisory at IDC. “DGX SuperPOD is the latest milestone in a prolific partnership between NetApp and NVIDIA to address this need, and NetApp is well positioned to help customers solve their data management challenges regardless of where it resides.”
