DDN AI400X2 Turbo Acknowledged for
Accelerating Generative AI and Large Language
Model Adoption in Globally Recognized Annual Awards Program
CHATSWORTH, Calif. ,
July 1,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- DDN®, the global leader in
artificial intelligence (AI) and multi-cloud data management
solutions, today announced that it has earned its fourth "AI
Hardware Innovation Award," resulting in five consecutive annual
award recognitions in the prestigious AI Breakthrough Awards
program. For the past seven years, AI Breakthrough, a leading
market intelligence organization, has recognized the top companies,
technologies, and products in the AI market globally.
This year, DDN was commended for the newest addition to its
industry-leading AI solutions portfolio that serves various
industries by efficiently unlocking the full capabilities of
customers' GPU-based infrastructure, the AI400X2 Turbo. Introduced
at the beginning of 2024, the AI400X2 Turbo builds on the strength
of DDN's trusted and proven AI appliances and was specifically
developed for the most demanding AI customers, like GPU clouds,
national AI cloud providers and generative AI developers.
"As organizations continue to amplify their AI applications and
expand data capacity, they need solutions that can handle these
massive workloads at an even faster rate," said Steve Johansson, managing director, AI
Breakthrough. "DDN's AI400X2 Turbo supplies faster performance and
expanded connectivity options, leading to increased efficiency of
AI frameworks and software libraries, and high-performing GPUs.
We're so pleased to recognize the AI400X2 Turbo with our 'AI
Hardware Innovation Award!'"
Accelerating production AI applications for data centers and the
cloud by 10x over comparable AI storage solutions at a fraction of
the power, the AI400X2 Turbo delivers more AI training time to GPU
clusters, enhancing data center profitability and ROI by 30%. The
increase in hardware performance in the AI400X2 Turbo is
complemented by DDN's software optimizations that streamline data
movement through all parts of the AI infrastructure stack from the
storage, through the network, to the GPUs, and directly into
applications. These significant efficiency gains contribute to both
lower costs and better predictive capabilities.
"Data storage is a vital aspect in driving AI infrastructure and
software libraries, businesses require the highest quality in their
technology investments to increase efficiency and performance in
their workloads," shared Jyothi
Swaroop, chief marketing officer, DDN. "DDN's fifth
consecutive AI Breakthrough Awards win is a testament to the
solutions we provide to advance AI adoption. We are honored to
receive the 2024 award recognition for the DDN AI400X2 Turbo as
this appliance was specifically created to accelerate efficiency,
performance and power for massive GPU clouds, large-scale Gen AI
and large language models."
This year's AI Breakthrough program attracted more than 5,000
nominations from over 20 different countries throughout the world,
in categories such as Generative AI, Computer Vision, AIOps, Deep
Learning, Robotics, Natural Language Processing, industry specific
AI applications, and many more. A list of all the featured winners
for the 2024 AI Breakthrough Awards can be found here: AI
Breakthrough 2024 Award Winners.
About AI Breakthrough
Part of Tech Breakthrough, a
leading market intelligence and recognition platform for global
technology innovation and leadership, the AI Breakthrough Awards
program is devoted to honoring excellence in Artificial
Intelligence technologies, services, companies and products. The AI
Breakthrough Awards provide public recognition for the achievements
of AI companies and products in categories including Generative AI,
Machine Learning, AI Platforms, Robotics, Business Intelligence, AI
Hardware, Computer Vision and more. For more information
visit AIBreakthroughAwards.com.
About DDN
DDN is a leading global provider of data
storage and data management solutions at scale. We accelerate AI
and High Performance Computing workflows and applications in data
centers, private and public clouds, and at the edge. Thanks to our
technology, over 11,000 customers realize significant efficiencies
in their GPU and CPU compute farms, substantially reducing their
data center power consumption and footprint. Utilizing highly
optimized flash technology and AI-enabled software, our products
power some of the largest and most demanding customers in the world
in fields such as autonomous driving, AI chatbots, healthcare,
financial services, manufacturing, energy, government, public
sector, and research institutions, as well as generative AI and
data analytics applications. Explore our offerings further at
ddn.com.
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DDN@walt.com
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