IBM Storage With Nvidia DGX A100 Systems

By Boston Labs Ltd.

Designed as a scalable unit that can be scaled expanded to meet growing business and research needs, the IBM Storage’ Spectrum Scale with Nvidia Corp. DGX A100 systems supports organisations looking to satisfy the needs for multiple workloads, from providing as-a-service access for small interactive jobs, to supporting cluster-wide jobs that make the full use of multi-GPU and multi-node resources.

Spectrum Scale provides a storage framework with scalability, extensibility, and the enterprise attributes required, including data protection, data tiering, and hybrid cloud integration.

Spectrum Scale is a cluster file system that provides concurrent access to a single file system or set of file systems from multiple nodes. The nodes can be SAN attached, network attached, a mixture of both, or in a shared nothing cluster configuration. This enables performance access to this common set of data to support a scale-out solution or to provide a highly available platform. With businesses creating, analysing and keeping more data than ever before, there is a recognition that the cloud is becoming difficult to manage within organisations. An organisation’s underlying information architecture must support the hybrid cloud, big data and AI workloads, along with traditional applications, while ensuring security, reliability, data efficiency and high performance. Spectrum Scale meets these challenges as a scale-out high performance global parallel file system.

We are aware of Nvidia’s DGX A100 which was announced at last years GTC. It features 8 Nvidia A100 Tensor Core GPUs which provides the fast results that are critical for AI workloads. It is the universal system for all AI workloads – from analytics to training to inference. It also offers the ability to deliver fine-grained allocation of computing power, using the Multi-Instance GPU (MIG) capability in the A100 Tensor Core GPU, which enables administrators to assign resources that are right-sized for specific workloads. Now enterprises can create a complete workflow from data preparation and analytics to training and inference using an easy-to-deploy AI infrastructure.

Boston is a close partner of IBM and Nvidia. The Spectrum Scale and DGX A100 certified system is available to test at Boston Labs, where its team are on hand ready to help deliver your goals. and we offer testing on the DGX A100 with Spectrum Scale!

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Video: IBM Spectrum Scale provides optimized big data storage on premises or in the cloud
Video: Introducing Nvidia DGX A100