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Equinix offers managed private cloud with NVIDIA DGX AI supercomputing infrastructure
Equinix , the world ’ s digital infrastructure company , announced a fully managed private cloud service that enables enterprises to easily acquire and manage their own NVIDIA DGX AI supercomputing infrastructure for building and running custom generative AI models .
Available immediately , the service includes NVIDIA DGX systems , NVIDIA networking and the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform . Equinix installs and operates each customer ’ s privately owned NVIDIA infrastructure and can deploy services on their behalf in key International Business Exchange , IBX data centres globally .
“ To harness the incredible potential of generative AI , enterprises need adaptable , scalable hybrid infrastructure in their local markets to bring AI supercomputing to their data ,” said Charles Meyers , President and CEO of Equinix . “ Our new service provides customers a fast and cost-effective way to adopt advanced AI infrastructure that ’ s operated and managed by experts globally .”
“ Generative AI is transforming every industry ,” said Jensen Huang , founder and CEO of NVIDIA . “ Now , enterprises can own NVIDIA AI supercomputing and software , paired with the operational efficiency of Equinix management , in hundreds of data centres worldwide .”
Through the service , enterprises can scale their infrastructure operations to achieve the level of AI performance needed to develop and run massive models .
Early access companies using the service include leaders in biopharma , financial services , software , automotive and retail , which are building AI Centres of Excellence to provide a strategic foundation for a broad range of rapidly developing LLM use cases .
These include accelerating time to market for new medications , developing AI copilots for customer service agents and building virtual productivity assistants .
Equinix ’ s fully managed NVIDIA AI supercomputing service enables customers to operate their AI infrastructure in close proximity to their data .
The service offers high-speed private network access to global network service providers , enabling quick generative AI information retrieval across corporate wide area networks . In addition , it provides private , high-bandwidth interconnections to cloud services and enterprise service providers to facilitate AI workloads while meeting data security and compliance requirements .
Using the service , customers can easily access their NVIDIA AI Enterprise software to streamline the development and deployment of production-grade AI applications , including generative AI . NVIDIA AI Enterprise includes pretrained models , optimised frameworks and accelerated data science software libraries – such as the NVIDIA NeMo framework for building LLMs , NVIDIA RAPIDS for data science , NVIDIA Clara for healthcare and NVIDIA TensorRT- LLM for performance optimisation of large language models .
The comprehensive solution also features enterprise-grade support and security . This includes Equinix ’ s IBX data centre professionals to help customers rapidly build and deploy their custom AI models , as well as access to NVIDIA AI experts . p
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