MUNICH, Oct. 10, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- GPU Technology
Conference — Oracle (NYSE:ORCL) and NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA)
today announced that Oracle is the first public cloud provider to
support the NVIDIA HGX-2™ platform on Oracle Cloud
Infrastructure, to meet the needs of the next generation of
analytics, machine learning and AI. The companies are also
announcing the general availability of support for GPU-accelerated
deep learning and HPC containers from the NVIDIA GPU
Cloud™ (NGC) container registry on Oracle Cloud
Infrastructure.
From enabling autonomous vehicles to driving global climate
simulations, rapid progress in AI and HPC has transformed entire
industries while also demanding massive increases in complexity and
compute power. HGX-2 is designed for multi-precision computing to
accelerate the most demanding applications by unleashing 2
petaflops of computing power and half a terabyte (TB) of total GPU
memory with 16 NVIDIA Tesla® V100 Tensor Core GPUs interconnected
with NVSwitch™. Supporting HGX-2 on both Oracle Cloud
Infrastructure bare-metal and virtual machine instances, Oracle and
NVIDIA are helping customers solve the greatest AI and HPC
challenges for the most complex workloads.
Oracle is also announcing support for RAPIDS™
open-source software introduced today by NVIDIA for executing
end-to-end data science training pipelines accelerated on NVIDIA
GPUs. RAPIDS will be available this week on Oracle Cloud
Infrastructure via NGC. RAPIDS dramatically accelerates data
science pipelines by moving workflows onto the GPU. This optimizes
machine learning training with more iterations for better model
accuracy. Data scientists can quickly integrate RAPIDS with
hassle-free integration and minimal code changes, enabling them to
significantly accelerate the Python data science toolchain. With
this new offering and support for NGC containers, Oracle and NVIDIA
are allowing customers to easily deploy containerized applications
and frameworks for HPC, data science and AI and run them seamlessly
on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is also working with NVIDIA to
support RAPIDS across its platform, including the Oracle Data
Science Cloud, to further accelerate customers' end to-end data
science workflows. RAPIDS software runs seamlessly on the
Oracle Cloud, allowing customers to support their HPC, AI and data
science needs, all while taking advantage of the portfolio of GPU
instances available on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
"We are very excited about this collaboration with NVIDIA. As
the world of computing continues to push the boundaries of what's
possible, we are providing our customers with the software, tools
and cloud infrastructure needed to solve the most complex
challenges," said Clay Magouyrk,
senior vice president, software development, Oracle Cloud
Infrastructure. "Whether you are an engineer, data scientist,
researcher or developer, we are bringing the power of compute and
cloud to your fingertips.
"This new collaboration with Oracle will help fuel incredible
innovation across a wide range of industries," said Ian Buck, vice president and general manager of
Accelerated Computing at NVIDIA. "By taking advantage of NVIDIA's
latest technologies, Oracle is well positioned to meet surges in
demand for GPU acceleration for deep learning, high-performance
computing, data analytics and machine learning."
Supporting Resources
- Oracle blog: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure & NVIDIA announce
HGX-2 & NVIDIA Data Science Platform
- Learn more about HPC on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
About Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Oracle Cloud
Infrastructure is the enterprise Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
platform. Companies of all sizes rely on Oracle Cloud to run
enterprise and cloud native applications with
mission-critical performance and core-to-edge security. By
running both traditional and new workloads on a comprehensive cloud
that includes compute, storage, networking, database, and
containers, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure dramatically increases
operational efficiency and lowers total cost of ownership. For
more information,
visit https://cloud.oracle.com/iaas.
About Oracle
The Oracle Cloud offers complete SaaS
application suites for ERP, HCM and CX, plus best-in-class database
Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
from data centers throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. For more information about Oracle
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About NVIDIA
NVIDIA's (NASDAQ: NVDA) invention of the
GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined
modern computer graphics and revolutionized parallel computing.
More recently, GPU deep learning ignited modern AI — the next era
of computing — with the GPU acting as the brain of computers,
robots and self-driving cars that can perceive and understand the
world. More information at http://nvidianews.nvidia.com/.
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