Taiga Cloud Announces Strategic European Partnership with GIGABYTE
October 9, 2023 | PR Newswire
Taiga Cloud, Europe's first and largest Generative AI Cloud Service Provider and part of Northern Data Group, has entered into a strategic European partnership with GIGABYTE, an industry innovator and leader in the enterprise computing market. The partnership positions Taiga Cloud to meet the surging demand for compute power for Generative AI applications.
The partnership follows the recent investment in 20 NVIDIA H100 GPU pods, each made up of 512 H100 GPUs, which will be supplied by GIGABYTE. This purchase builds on Taiga's position as Europe's largest independent Cloud Service Provider (CSP) of NVIDIA hardware - now with over 19,000 NVIDIA H100, A100 and RTX A6000 GPUs – affirming its status as an Elite NVIDIA partner.
GIGABYTE worked closely with Taiga Cloud engineers to uniquely configure the NVIDIA H100 GPU infrastructure into pods of 512 GPUs, connected into islands of four pods each (2,048 GPUs) using NVIDIA BlueField DPUs and the NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand platform. The configuration will help to power the next wave of innovation in the Generative AI market by enabling efficient and quick means of training LLMs, offering businesses Generative AI solutions in a much shorter timeframe.
Through supplying Taiga Cloud with the highly sought after NVIDIA H100 GPUs, GIGABYTE is facilitating the acceleration of the chip supply chain in Europe. Customers can pre-register their interest in H100s, with access going live before the end of 2023. This partnership is the evolution of more than two years of collaboration between the companies, which began with GIGABYTE supplying NVIDIA A100s to Taiga Cloud which are hosted in Northern Data Group's pioneering data center in Boden, Sweden.