NVIDIA Japanese cloud leader builds NVIDIA AI infrastructure for industrial transformation in the AI ​​era

NVIDIA press release (2024.11.13) NVIDIA Japanese cloud leader builds NVIDIA AI infrastructure to transform industries in the AI ​​era SoftBank, GMO Internet Group, Hi-Res, KDDI, RUTILEA, and Sakura Internet use NVIDIA accelerated computing, networking, and software to advance robotics, automotive, healthcare, communications, and public sector development in Japan
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Tokyo – NVIDIA AI Summit Japan – November 13, 2024 – NVIDIA announced today that Japan’s cloud leaders SoftBank Corp. (hereinafter referred to as “SoftBank”), GMO Internet Group, Inc. (hereinafter referred to as “GMO Internet Group”), Hi-Res Inc. (hereinafter referred to as “Hi-Res”), and KDDI Corporation (hereinafter referred to as “KDDI”) , RUTILEA Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as RUTILEA), and Sakura Internet Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Sakura Internet) will use NVIDIA announced that it is leveraging its accelerated computing, networking, and software to build its AI infrastructure. The Japanese cloud provider’s services are supported through a Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry program to provide critical computing resources across the industry. Cloud providers are supporting AI development by operating AI data centers in the central, northern, and western regions of the country and adding tens of thousands of NVIDIA GPUs to strengthen national and regional computing infrastructure. Masu. NVIDIA Founder/CEO Jensen Huang said: “Japan has demonstrated technological prowess for decades, powering the country’s incredible transformation in the AI ​​industrial revolution.Together with NVIDIA, Japanese cloud providers will We are building critical AI infrastructure to advance Japan’s leadership in healthcare and solve the most pressing challenges facing citizens and customers around the world.” “Decades of Japanese technology excellence will enable Japan to undergo incredible transformation in the AI ​​industrial revolution. We are building critical AI infrastructure to improve our capabilities and solve the most pressing challenges for our nation and our customers around the world.” Cloud services across Japan support industry with NVIDIA AI SoftBank selected the NVIDIA Blackwell platform to build Japan’s most powerful AI supercomputer. This includes the DGX B200 (
https://www.nvidia.com/ja-jp/data-center/dgx-b200/ ) The world’s first NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD (
https://www.nvidia.com/ja-jp/data-center/dgx-superpod/ ) is included. SoftBank uses NVIDIA AI infrastructure to accelerate a wide range of industries, including its subsidiary SB Intuitions. SB Intuitions uses NVIDIA AI infrastructure for research and development of a large-scale language model developed in-house specifically for Japanese. GMO Internet Group is built on Dell PowerEdge servers and uses NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPUs (
https://www.nvidia.com/ja-jp/data-center/h200/ ), NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet for AI ( https://www.nvidia.com/ja-jp/networking/spectrumx/ ) platform, NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPU (
https://www.nvidia.com/ja-jp/networking/products/data-processing-unit/ ), NVIDIA AI Enterprise (
https://www.nvidia.com/ja-jp/data-center/products/ai-enterprise/ ) We are launching “GMO GPU Cloud,” Japan’s first local cloud service equipped with a full stack of software suites. The service is expected to offer cloud-based AI computing to Japanese businesses later this month. GMO GPU Cloud customers can use NVIDIA AI Enterprise software to accelerate generative AI applications running in production. Hi-Res has established Hi-Res Kagawa, a dedicated AI data center powered by NVIDIA technology, to accelerate AI development in Japan. Hi-Res Kagawa, which uses NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPUs, plans to start operating the “GPUSOROBAN” AI supercomputer cloud service next month. A second high-resolution AI data center is scheduled to become operational early next year. Together, the two data centers will provide access to 1,600 NVIDIA GPUs to researchers and businesses in Japan’s western Shikoku and Chugoku regions, as well as manufacturing, research and educational
institutions outside Japan’s metropolitan areas. It is expected that AI development will be accelerated. KDDI is collaborating with ELYZA to launch an AI computing infrastructure built on NVIDIA HGX systems to support the development of generative AI and specialized LLMs. KDDI customers use NVIDIA software and this infrastructure to accelerate AI model training and inference, build digital twins, and run simulation workloads for autonomous vehicles, robot motion control, and sensor data processing. You will be able to do it. KDDI also introduced the NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 with Grace Blackwell Superchip ( https://www.nvidia.com/ja-jp/data-center/gb200-nvl72/ ) We are planning a liquid-cooled data center that will adopt the platform. This data center will be used as a new resource for AI development in Japan. Kyoto-based NVIDIA Inception member RUTILEA has doubled down on the latest NVIDIA Hopper compute infrastructure to further strengthen its infrastructure in its AI cloud data center. The startup provides more than 1,000 NVIDIA Hopper GPUs to support building foundational models for animation, retail and food service,
vision-based editing, data extraction, and LLM development. In addition, AI Fukushima, a subsidiary of RUTILEA, will begin operating a new data center in Okuma Town, Fukushima Prefecture in September to support continued industrial recovery following the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake. . AI Fukushima operates the infrastructure introduced by RUTILEA, and aims to revitalize the local economy and contribute to regional development by providing cutting-edge AI computing
infrastructure. Sakura Internet plans to expand the number of NVIDIA Hopper GPUs in its “High Firepower” cloud service for generative AI from 2,000 to nearly 4,000. Sakura Internet will continue to use NVIDIA HGX B200 equipped with Blackwell GPU ( https://www.nvidia.com/ja-jp/data-center/hgx/ ) and other GPUs will be installed at the Ishikari data center in Hokkaido, which is powered by 100% renewable energy, by 2027. Furthermore, Sakura Internet plans to provide approximately 10,800 GPUs as part of its high-performance AI computing service. Sakura Internet’s customers include the National Institute of Informatics (NII), a public research
organization. NII has established the Large-Scale Language Model Research and Development Center (LLM Research and Development Center) to promote collaboration between industry, government, and academia through open generative AI research and development activities in Japan, and to advance research and development of Japanese-language medical LLM. I am. Tier IV, a Japan-based self-driving software development startup, is also using NVIDIA-accelerated Sakura Internet computing in its vision of “democratizing self-driving” using open source software. Masu. *This announcement material is a press release released on November 12, 2024 (US time) (
https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/japan-cloud-leaders-build-nvidia-ai-infrastructure-to-transform-industries ) is an abridged translation. About NVIDIA Since its founding in 1993, NVIDIA ( https://www.nvidia.com/ja-jp/ ) (NASDAQ: NVDA) is a pioneer in accelerated computing. Invented by the company in 1999, the GPU is fueling the growth of the PC gaming market, redefining computer graphics, and igniting the modern AI era while helping to digitize industries. NVIDIA is a full-stack computing company with data center-scale products that are currently reshaping the industry. For more information, follow this link: https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/