Everpure FlashBlade NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD Reference Architecture

NVIDIA
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FlashBlade
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Technology Integrations
NVIDIA
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Executive Overview

NVIDIA® DGX™ SuperPOD™ with Everpure® FlashBlade® is a turn-key data center for the AI enterprise with scale-out storage, optimized for AI. It is a multi-user system optimized for large scale AI and HPC applications. It functions as a unified system, managing simultaneous users with advanced access controls for resource scheduling.

NVIDIA® DGX™ SuperPOD™ represents the next generation of scale-out compute clusters that demand the most from their storage fabrics. Newer protocols like RoCE have further increased the need for simple and performant solutions that can handle the complexity and high performance demands of today’s AI workloads.

The data ingestion, processing, and storage requirements for large-scale enterprise AI require the high-performance, highly efficient storage that Everpure FlashBlade was architected to deliver.

Scaling to meet these workloads is an ever growing part of pushing the boundaries of what is possible to achieve the next AI plateau. Some of the key features of the SuperPOD are

  • Scalability: It can scale up to thousands of NVIDIA GPUs and multiple PBs of DirectFlash®, making it suitable for large-scale AI model training and inference.

  • Performance: The NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD is based upon the infrastructure built at NVIDIA for internal research purposes and is designed to solve the most challenging computational problems of today.

  • Software Integration: The solution comes with NVIDIA Base Command™, which includes AI workflow management and infrastructure optimization tools.

  • Enterprise Support: Get dedicated expertise and services to help enterprises deploy and manage their AI infrastructure effectively.

Solution Overview

Integrating Everpure FlashBlade//S™ into the NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD storage fabric provides an AI data storage platform with enterprise-grade data services that accelerates AI data pipelines with a parallel architecture and multi-dimensional performance. FlashBlade allows capacity and performance to be scaled independently and can be continuously improved over time without disruption to meet changing and growing needs of an NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD environment. This includes values such as:

  • Data-in-Place Non-Disruptive Upgrades

    • Non-disruptively upgrade storage processor and/or storage capacity resources independently to either scale them within a technology generation or upgrade them to newer generations. With FlashBlade, customers can enjoy continuous data-in-place hardware and software innovation without requiring planned downtime and disruption windows.

  • Ease of Use & Management

    • Single integrated solution for all stages of an AI data pipeline with a simple architecture - easy to deploy, manage, and use.

  • Environmental Efficiency

    • A more powerful, ESG-friendly AI infrastructure delivering high density, reduced power consumption, and unmatched data center efficiency.

  • Performance at Any Scale

    • Start your AI journey at any scale and seamlessly grow and adapt as needed.

  • Agile AI Platform

    • Built for future innovations from Everpure and NVIDIA as the AI landscape and customer requirements evolve.

  • Trusted Industry Leaders

    • Innovation leaders in the market joining to deliver state-of-the-art flash-based AI-ready infrastructure since 2018, with the introduction of the Everpure AIRI® solution.1

This platform handles a multitude of use cases like LLMs, generative AI, Computer vision, deep learning recommendation systems, high performance computing, and more.

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NVIDIA, DGX, and SuperPOD are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of NVIDIA Corporation in the U.S. and other countries. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

1 https://investor.purestorage.com/news-and-events/press-releases/press-release-details/2018/Announcing-AIRI-Industrys-First-Integrated-AI-Ready-Infrastructure-for-Deploying-Deep-Learning-at-Scale/default.aspx