ITglobal.com: AI Cloud

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2023: Launch of AI Cloud service in Russia

The company ITGLOBAL.COM began providing its customers Russia AI with the Cloud service, under which the business can rent cloudy servers with powerful GPUs. The company announced this on August 28, 2023.

Five to ten years ago, graphics processors were used mainly for graphics and visualization. With the advent of general-purpose computing on GPUs, GPUs began to be used in other areas, such as AI high-performance computing and. machine learning

The expansion of the use of GPUs was due to their parallel computing capabilities. Unlike CPUs designed to handle sequential tasks, GPUs can handle many tasks in parallel.

When the business grew to complex analytics of its products and customers, building demand models and implementing AI for smart recommendations to consumers, when machine vision and IoT devices were introduced in production, CPU performance became lacking, and parallel computing on the GPU entered the game. Then the issue of purchasing expensive equipment became acute, which is not enough to simply buy, subsequently it must be maintained, repaired and updated. It is important to take into account that GPU models are released annually and are very superior to their predecessors. So that companies can effectively solve their problems, but at the same time save budgets, we launched the AI Cloud service, "said Alina Zhigalova, director of service development ITGLOBAL.COM.

ITGLOBAL.COM 's GPU Cloud Compute is a view public cloud based on VMware where virtual machines I work with graphics video cards Nvidia A800, tensor cores and 80 GB of RAM. For AI Cloud, customers pay according to the Pay as you go model, that is, only for the resources issued by the VM.

Within AI Cloud service to customers well six vGPU configurations on VM: 1vGPU.10GB (1vGPU Instance, 10 GB vGPU RAM), 1vGPU.20GB, 2vGPU.20GB, 3vGPU.40G, 4vGPU.40G, 7vGPU.80GB. Profiles have already been configured, they are easy to select and add when creating a VM. Thus, a business can use the most suitable option for its tasks, - said Alina Zhigalova, director of service development ITGLOBAL.COM.

The cloud provider for August 2023 has eight data centers in seven countries around the world on three continents. AI Cloud service has already been built and implemented in Russia, Kazakhstan and the Netherlands. In data centers, ITGLOBAL.COM installs its own high-end hardware: high-performance vStack-R servers, GPU A800 accelerator NVIDIA and storage NetApp All-Flash.