YTL Power International today announced the formation of YTL AI Cloud, a specialized provider of large-scale GPU-based accelerated computing, and that the company will deploy and manage one of the world’s most advanced supercomputers on the NVIDIA Grace Blackwell-based DGX Cloud – an artificial intelligence (AI) supercomputer to accelerate the development of generative
AI.
YTL is among the first to introduce NVIDIA GB200 NVL72, a liquid-cooled, multi-node rack-scale system with fifth-generation NVLink.
The supercomputer is networked via the NVIDIA Quantum InfiniBand networking platform. The platform acts as a single GPU with 1.4 exaflops of AI performance and 30 TB of fast memory and is designed for the most compute-intensive workloads.
The YTL AI supercomputer will achieve AI computing power of over 300 exaflops, making it one of the fastest supercomputers in the world.
“NVIDIA is partnering with YTL AI Cloud to bring a world-class accelerated computing platform to Southeast Asia – driving scientific research, innovation and economic growth across the region,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA, in a statement released today by YTL Power International.
“This latest supercomputer represents one of the first deployments of the NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell superchip on DGX Cloud and supports the growth of accelerated computing in the Asia Pacific region.”
Previously, Huang had introduced the new generation of AI graphics processors during the company’s developer conference in California (Main image). The first Blackwell chip is called GB200 and will ship later this year.
YTL Power International Managing Director Datuk Seri Yeoh Seok Hong said his company is proud to partner with NVIDIA and the Malaysian government to bring high-performance AI cloud computing to Malaysia.
“We are excited to bring this supercomputing power to the Asia Pacific region, which is home to many of the fastest-growing cloud regions and many of the world’s most innovative AI adopters,” Yeoh added.
The YTL AI supercomputer will be housed in a 1,640-acre data center at the YTL Green Data Center Campus in Johor and powered by renewable energy from the site’s 500 MW solar array.
This supercomputer will help meet the demand for highly scalable, high-performance cloud-based solutions for AI/ML workloads. Johor, Malaysia is located just 50 km from some of the world’s densest network connection points in neighboring Singapore.
YTL Power International announced in December that it is partnering with NVIDIA to develop AI infrastructure in Malaysia as part of a $4.3 billion investment deal, with the first phase expected to be operational by mid-2024.
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