Equinix Launches Fully Managed NVIDIA DGX AI Supercomputing Service

Equinix has unveiled a fully managed private cloud service, now available, providing enterprises with an accessible solution for acquiring and overseeing their NVIDIA DGX AI supercomputing infrastructure. The service, featuring NVIDIA DGX systems, networking, and the AI Enterprise software platform, is deployed and operated by Equinix in its key International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data centers globally. Charles Meyers, Equinix’s CEO, highlighted the need for adaptable and scalable hybrid infrastructure for enterprises to tap into the potential of generative AI, offering a quick and cost-effective way to adopt advanced AI infrastructure.

Jensen Huang, NVIDIA’s CEO, emphasized the transformative impact of generative AI on various industries and praised the new service that allows enterprises to own NVIDIA AI supercomputing globally, managed by Equinix. The scalable service supports enterprises in achieving the necessary AI performance levels for developing and running large-scale models. Industries such as biopharma, financial services, software, automotive, and retail are among the early adopters, utilizing the service to build AI Centers of Excellence for diverse applications like speeding up drug development, creating AI copilots, and developing virtual productivity assistants.

Equinix’s fully managed NVIDIA AI supercomputing service offers easy access to AI infrastructure, high-speed private network access, and private interconnections to cloud services. It ensures compliance with data security requirements and facilitates the retrieval of generative AI information across corporate networks. The service includes access to NVIDIA AI Enterprise software, providing pretrained models, optimized frameworks, and accelerated data science software libraries for various applications, such as language models, healthcare, and data science. Moreover, the comprehensive solution offers enterprise-grade support and security, with Equinix’s data center professionals aiding in the rapid deployment of custom AI models and access to NVIDIA AI experts.