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NHN Cloud Corp., a cloud computing unit of South Korea’s web firm NHN Corp., is setting its sights on a graphics processing unit (GPU)-based cloud service armed with Nvidia Corp.’s H100 chips.
Kim Dong-hoon, chief government of NHN Cloud, stated on Tuesday the corporate goals to show right into a GPU-based cloud service agency from a central processing unit (CPU)-based firm.
“Demand for GPU infrastructure from synthetic intelligence firms is quickly rising. However there may be nonetheless no absolute chief within the GPU cloud market,” he stated.
NHN Cloud just lately outfitted its knowledge facilities in Korea with 1,000 Nvidia H100 AI GPU chips – the biggest amongst Korea’s cloud service suppliers (CSPs).
NHN Cloud can be constructing its personal AI ecosystem with the launch in 2022 of AI Simple Maker, a platform that permits shoppers to simply make the most of high-performance computing (HPC) cloud servers when growing AI providers.
With its cloud providers, NHN Cloud plans to quickly enter the European and Southeast Asian markets, the CEO stated.
KOREA’S BIG 3 CSPs
NHN Cloud’s two different crosstown rivals – Naver Cloud Corp. and KT Cloud Corp. – are additionally launching AI cloud providers.
Final October, Naver Cloud, an affiliate of Korea’s high web agency Naver Corp., launched Neurocloud for HyperCLOVA X, an AI cloud service optimized for its generative AI mannequin HyperCLOVA X.
KT Cloud, a unit of Korea’s telecom big KT Corp., just lately unveiled AI Practice, an AI mannequin studying help service, and plans to launch AIOps, a machine studying analytics software within the third quarter.
In keeping with market analysis agency Fortune Enterprise Insights, the worldwide GPU cloud market is forecast to develop from an estimated $4.3 billion this 12 months to $49.8 billion by 2032.
A cloud service is any service obtainable to customers on demand through the web from a cloud computing supplier’s server versus the corporate’s personal on-premises server.
Cloud providers are designed to offer straightforward, scalable entry to functions, assets and providers, and are totally managed by cloud service suppliers. Cloud computing is mostly used to explain Web knowledge facilities or IDCs, a core a part of cloud infrastructure.
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In-Soo Nam edited this text.