VMware and Nvidia have expanded their alliance to make it easier for enterprises to run GPU-accelerated AI applications in existing data centre infrastructure.
The virtualisation giant announced the expanded alliance with Nvidia Tuesday, saying that the GPU maker has exclusively certified VMware’s vSphere 7 Update 2 to support the new Nvidia AI Enterprise offering, a software suite of enterprise-grade AI tools and frameworks that enables Nvidia GPU-accelerated applications to run in virtual machines and containers.
VMware’s vSphere 7 Update 2 is also introducing support for Nvidia’s A100 Tensor Core GPU and its multi-instance GPU feature, which will allow data centre operators to split up individual A100s into as many as seven distinct instances for use by multiple users.
VMware and Nvidia team to deliver virtualized AI workloads
VMware Inc. and Nvidia Corp. today are teaming up to hasten development of enterprise artificial intelligence applications.
New releases of the virtualization giant’s vSphere 7 server virtualization and vSAN 7 storage virtualization product will run applications requiring AI-ready infrastructure with improved security and simplified operations. Specifically, VMware and Nvidia said they’ll deliver a software stack that enables customers to develop new applications as well as modernize existing applications and infrastructure using Nvidia hardware.
Updates to the jointly developed AI-Ready Enterprise platform include certification of VMware vSphere 7 Update 2 for Nvidia AI Enterprise, which is described as a cloud-native collection of optimized AI applications and frameworks. The combination enables up to 20 times faster performance of Nvidia graphic processing unit-based workloads on top of V
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