- InstaDeep's work within machine learning and
artificial intelligence provides optimised decision-making products
and solutions across numerous industry applications.
- To expand its research and development, InstaDeep
was looking for a specialist HPC-Ready data centre capable of
hosting their NVIDIA powered supercomputers.
- Kao Data's Harlow campus provides the perfect home for
InstaDeep's high-density HPC cluster.
LONDON, Jan. 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Kao Data, the
specialist developer and operator of advanced, carrier-neutral data
centres for high performance colocation, has today announced a new
customer contract with InstaDeep, a global leader in artificial
intelligence (AI) powered decision-making solutions for enterprise.
The new high performance computing (HPC) installation at Kao Data's
Harlow campus allows InstaDeep to expand its research and
development capabilities. Deployment of this sophisticated
technical platform reinforces InstaDeep's position as one of
Europe's preeminent providers of
decision-making processes for real-life industrial
environments.
Recently selected by CB Insights as one of the 100 most
promising AI start-ups in the world, InstaDeep, a high-growth, AI
scale-up, utilises its significant expertise within GPU-powered
computing, machine learning and reinforcement learning to build
products such as its unique DeepChain™ technology - a cloud-native
protein design platform which allows the discovery of new protein
designs validated with molecular dynamics simulations without human
interaction. Today InstaDeep's global reach includes a strategic
collaboration with BioNTech on the discovery and development of
novel immunotherapies, collaboration with Total on 3D microfossil
image detection, segmentation and classification, and development
of a train capacity and traffic management system for Deutsche
Bahn.
InstaDeep's supercomputer includes AMD EPYC (Milan) powered hardware, supported with the
latest generation NVIDIA DGX A100 GPUs, Mellanox switches and a
Ceph distributed storage system. It is specifically configured to
allow all compute nodes (CPUs and GPUs) access to the storage
cluster, optimising performance and accelerating the reinforcement
learning process. Given the advanced computing footprint InstaDeep
will be operating and the massive datasets they will be utilising,
choosing an industrial scale data centre that specialised in
hosting HPC and NVIDIA GPUs was crucial.
After reviewing a number of providers, Kao Data was chosen
because of the data centre's technical excellence within HPC and
AI, the specialist support from Kao Data's team, and the ability
for InstaDeep to bespoke build and host their cluster within 28kW
adjacent and contiguous racks in a dedicated Technology Suite. In
addition, Kao Data's Megaport-enabled campus is engineered to be
ultra-efficient and sustainable, meaning InstaDeep could benefit
from competitive pricing and 100% certified, renewable power.
"InstaDeep is an EMEA leader in decision-making AI, hence it is
key to deploy our supercomputing and AI hardware within a
technically superior environment, capable of supporting the latest
HPC and GPU-powered technologies," said Karim Beguir, CEO and
Co-Founder of InstaDeep. "By working with Kao Data we have found a
data centre that offers world-class infrastructure, specialist HPC
support and the scalability to help us to grow our industry-leading
AI product platforms and solutions."
"Kao Data is delighted to welcome InstaDeep as our first new
client of 2021," said Lee Myall,
Chief Executive Officer at Kao Data. "Like ourselves, they are a
pioneering, high-tech organisation that are at the very forefront
of their industry and their disruptive use of HPC and AI is
enabling them to create tremendous competitive advantage for their
customers. We look forward to supporting their efforts and helping
their business to innovate and grow."
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About Kao Data
Founded in 2014, Kao Data develop and operate advanced data
centres for high performance colocation. From our hyperscale
inspired campus in the heart of the UK Innovation Corridor between
London and Cambridge - we provide cloud, HPC, AI and
enterprise customers with a world-class home for their
compute.
Our Harlow campus - built on the site of Sir Charles Kao's pioneering discovery of fibre
optic cable in 1966 - is a development of four state-of the-art,
OCP-Ready™, carrier neutral data centres. When fully completed the
15 acre, +£230m campus will support an ITE load of over 40MW,
across 150,000sq ft of technical space – all powered by 100%
renewable energy.
Backed by Legal & General and Goldacre - Noé Group, Kao Data
is one of the largest campus developments in the UK and represents
the future in sustainable, efficient and scalable computing -
providing an industry blueprint to develop further best-in-class
data centres.
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About InstaDeep
Founded in 2014, InstaDeep is an EMEA leader in decision-making
AI products for the Enterprise, with headquarters in London, and offices in Paris, Tunis,
Lagos, Dubai and Cape
Town. With expertise in both machine intelligence research
and concrete business deployments, the Company provides a
competitive advantage to its partners in an AI-first world.
Leveraging its extensive know-how in GPU-accelerated computing,
deep learning and reinforcement learning, InstaDeep has built
products, such as its novel DeepChain™ platform, that tackle the
most complex challenges across a range of industries. InstaDeep has
also developed collaborations with global leaders in the Artificial
Intelligence ecosystem, such as Google DeepMind, NVIDIA and Intel.
The Company is part of Intel's AI Builders program and was named a
Preferred Deep Learning Partner by NVIDIA.
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