Pure Storage AIRI

AIRI is the complex infrastructure prepared for use of artificial intelligence (AI-Ready Infrastructure, AIRI) and Pure Storage and Nvidia developed jointly for expansion of opportunities of the Nvidia DGX systems.

2018

Availability of AIRI and AIRI Mini with the Cisco switches Nexus

The company Pure Storage announced on July 23, 2018 that AIRI and AIRI Mini, complete infrastructure solutions of Pure Storage companies and Nvidia, prepared for application artificial intelligence (AI), are available with now Ethernet-switches Nexus the companies Cisco (100Gb to Ethernet Nexus 9000).

As result, the general clients of Cisco and Pure Storage irrespective of the stage of digital transformation will be able to provide the solution of a wide range of problems of analytics for transformation of data into innovations.

FlashBlade constructed on arrays of storage and the Nvidia DGX-1 servers, AIRI offers the enterprises simple, fast and long-lasting infrastructure. Four Nvidia DGX-1 Systems systems, 15 edges of Pure FlashBlade on 17 Tbyte and two 100-gigabit switches with RDMA provide to AIRI performance of deep training 4 PFLOPS and high-speed performance of NFS at the level of 1.5 million IOPS, noted in the company.

In turn, AIRI Mini includes one array of Pure Storage FlashBlade with 7 edges on 17 Tbyte, two Nvidia DGX-1 servers and Cisco switches 100 GbE with support of GPUDirect RDMA technology for the maximum speed of the distributed training. AIRI Mini performance in the mode of deep training is 2 PFLOPS. All necessary software that data specialists could begin work on the projects right after inclusion of a system is included in the package.

As of July 23, AIRI and AIRI Mini are already available to acquisition through partners of Pure Storage.

Announcement of AI infrastructure of AIRI

In March, 2018 the Pure Storage company, producer of the platform of data storage all flash for the companies innovators, with assistance of NVIDIA company provided AIRI — the complex infrastructure prepared for use of artificial intelligence (AI-Ready Infrastructure, AIRI). Developed jointly by Pure Storage and NVIDIA, AIRI companies is the specialized solution for architects and scientists by data expanding possibilities of the NVIDIA DGX-1 platform for implementation of full-scale projects in the field of artificial intelligence (further "AI") in each organization. AIRI allows cloud providers, the commercial and state organizations to accelerate data analysis and quicker to create the innovations having a real impact on mankind.

AI opens opportunities before the companies to create innovations not only at the level of products, but also in daily operating activities in their aspiration to save leadership in the industries during enormous changes. According to forecasts of Gartner, by 2020 AI will be implemented in 80% the companies of the world. AIRI provides simple and at the same time powerful architecture which allows the companies to construct the infrastructure with focus on data helping to realize all potential of AI.

The infrastructure solution AIRI developed by Pure Storage and NVIDIA in the form of completely integrated hardware-software solution excludes difficulties which interfere with implementation full-scale Iiproyektov. AIRI works based on Pure Storage FlashBlade, the industry-first platform of data storage for modern analytics and AI, and four NVIDIA DGX‑1 supercomputers on the graphic processors NVIDIA Tesla V100 with an overall performance of 4 PFLOPS. Systems are connected among themselves by means of the Arista 100GbE switches supporting the GPUDirect RDMA technology allowing to reach the maximum capacity of the distributed training. AIRI includes a stack of deep training of NVIDIA GPU Cloud and functionality of Pure Storage AIRI Scaling Toolkit, they allow scientists to accelerate by data accomplishment Iizadach from several weeks or months to few o'clock.

AIRI is the solution which will allow architects and scientists to improve by data an indicator of "time to the answer" (time-to-insight) of any scale. Each organization generates and stores tons of data. To have an opportunity to make business it is "more smart", the innovative companies it is more, than ever, need extraction of valuable knowledge from this information.