Pure Storage FlashBlade helps improve data
processing performance and data read speeds within GPU servers,
enabling a 2.6x increase in GPU usage after adoption
SANTA
CLARA, Calif., Aug. 15,
2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG),
the IT pioneer that delivers the world's most advanced data storage
technology and services, today announced that Chungbuk Technopark,
a regional innovation hub in Chungcheongbuk-do Province, has
leveraged FlashBlade®, its unified fast file and object
storage platform, to enhance the AI development environment it
provides to local businesses by boosting storage data processing
performance and significantly improving GPU usage.
Customer Challenge:
Chungbuk Technopark is an innovation hub that supports growth
and economic development in the Chungcheongbuk-do province of
South Korea, including a
development environment for deep learning and machine learning that
helps local companies develop AI products. To support AI
initiatives, the company needed storage with AI-optimized
performance, simple management, and that was easily
upgradeable.
Customer Impact:
Chungbuk Technopark built its AI environment around the NVIDIA
DGX A100 system. After comparing flash storage solutions, it
selected Pure Storage FlashBlade for a seamless integration with
its DGX systems, maximizing the efficiency and management of data
used to develop and train AI technologies. Benefits that Pure
Storage delivers to Chungbuk Technopark include:
- Advanced AI development infrastructure: Chungbuk
Technopark increased data processing performance twofold, improved
the GPU server's data read speed, and expanded GPU usage from 30%
to 80%—an increase of about 2.6x. It also enhanced performance,
scalability, and data availability for the AI development
environment, while also achieving a tenfold increase in
reliability.
- Zero downtime to meet a growing workload: FlashBlade
allows Chungbuk Technopark to increase performance and capacity
without any downtime or data migrations. This means more reliable
service for companies that rely on the AI platform.
- Simple, efficient storage management: With Pure's
AI-powered full-stack storage management and monitoring software,
Pure1®, Chungbuk Technopark's staff spends much less time and cost
managing storage capacity and performance.
Pure Storage supports Chungbuk Technopark's efforts to help
local companies innovate AI-enabled services and products. A
promising beauty-tech startup, for example, uses the AI platform to
analyze skin and scalp conditions and market customized beauty
products. A fast-growing local startup successfully developed AI
technology to analyze the movement of wild boars. This helps
livestock farmers prevent African Swine Fever (ASF), a development
that earned the company the 'H1 2022 Best Patent Award of Korea' by
The Hankook Ilbo.
Executive Insight:
- "With the introduction of Pure Storage FlashBlade, we have
trained our AI models faster with 2x faster data read speeds.
FlashBlade has paved the way for us to build a better AI
development environment, enabling many companies in the region to
achieve significant business results." -- Cheol-hong Kim,
Digital Strategy, Team Leader, Chungbuk Technopark
- "The advancement of the AI development environment
of Chungbuk Technopark has helped many local businesses
maximize the potential of AI and data and accelerate innovation. We
will continue to collaborate with companies and institutions in
Korea by providing modern all-flash storage infrastructure to
efficiently meet the exploding data demands of the AI era." --
Jaesung Yoo, Managing Director, Pure
Storage Korea
Learn More:
- Chungbuk Technopark Case Study
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