Digital infrastructure company Equinix, Inc. (NASDAQ:EQIX) announced a fully managed private cloud service that enables enterprises to easily acquire and manage their own NVIDIA DGX AI supercomputing infrastructure for building and running custom artificial intelligence models.
Available immediately, the service includes NVIDIA DGX systems, NVIDIA networking and the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform. Equinix installs and manages each customer’s private NVIDIA infrastructure and can deploy services on their behalf in key International Business Exchange™ (IBX) data centers worldwide.
Through the service, enterprises can scale their infrastructure operations to achieve the level of AI performance required to develop and run massive models.
Early access companies using the service include leaders in biopharma, financial services, software, automotive and retail, who are building AI Centers of Excellence to provide a strategic foundation for a wide range of rapidly growing LLM use cases.
These include speeding up time to market for new drugs, developing AI pilots for customer service agents, and building virtual productivity assistants.
Equinix’s fully managed NVIDIA AI supercomputing service enables customers to operate their AI infrastructure in close proximity to their data.
The service offers high-speed private network access to global network service providers, enabling rapid retrieval of AI information across a wide area of corporate networks. Additionally, it provides high-bandwidth private connections to cloud services and enterprise service providers to facilitate AI workloads while meeting data security and compliance requirements.
Using the service, customers can easily access NVIDIA AI Enterprise software to optimize the development and deployment of production-grade AI applications, including genetic AI. NVIDIA AI Enterprise includes pre-trained models, optimized frameworks, and accelerated data science software libraries—such as the NVIDIA NeMo™ framework for building LLMs, NVIDIA RAPIDS™ for data science, NVIDIA Clara for healthcare, and NVIDIA TensorRT™— LLM for performance optimization of large language models.
The complete solution also features enterprise-grade support and security. This includes Equinix’s IBX data center professionals to help customers quickly build and deploy their custom AI models, as well as access to NVIDIA AI experts.