PEAK:AIO announced that it has collaborated with Scan and Micron Technology, Inc. to deliver unparalleled
artificial intelligence (AI) performance and scalability with PEAK:AIO's
introduction of Micron's ground-breaking 30TB drives.
Micron
turbocharges PEAK:AIO's
AI Data Server, unlocking new levels of performance and scale, delivering
up to 650TBs of storage capacity in a single 2U server with enough
performance to supercharge the hardiest of AI projects. With over 171GB/sec internal performance, PEAK:AIO is
futureproofing compatibility while maximising NVIDIA's network connectivity
such as the Connect-X range and BlueField DPUs.
"The
AI market is evolving rapidly, driven by startups and research institutions
seeking cutting-edge capabilities. Strategic allocation of funds is crucial,
particularly towards GPU resources," said Elan Raja, CEO of Scan International,
an NVIDIA Elite Partner who ran and oversaw the tests. "As resellers, our
responsibility is to help drive client innovation and advise on technology.
With PEAK:AIO's latest solution coupled with Micron's newest drives,
capabilities that were previously only accessible to those with much larger
budgets are now available to everyone."
Beyond
ground-breaking performance, Micron and PEAK:AIO together address the critical
aspects of power efficiency, cooling, and space utilization in AI installations. The combination of
Micron 9400 NVMe SSDs and the PEAK:AIO AI Data Server with 650TBs of capacity
and up to and up to 170GB/sec of performance in a 2U form factor is available
at 1/6th of the
footprint and cost of systems that would typically provide that level of power.
PEAK:AIO
achieves its exceptional performance without resorting to historic storage
benchmarking practices such as using multiple clients. PEAK:AIO's full
performance can be delivered to a single GPU client server. No other solution
in the market matches this level of performance delivered to a single client.
"Maximising
internal RAID performance is important, but in real life AI solutions, the true
value of high-performance storage capabilities lies in the ability to be shared
with other AI/GPU systems through newer and innovative RDMA protocols, such as
GPUDirect Storage by NVIDIA and RDMA NFS," said Eyal Lemberger, CTO,
PEAK:AIO. "Developing, managing, and supporting this complex ecosystem is
what truly takes focus. With the help of Micron, what PEAK:AIO has achieved is a realistic, large scale
storage appliance in a small 2U footprint, designed for AI teams, not storage
for Linux administrators, and priced to align with GPU-centric budgets."