Naver said Thursday it has completed Korea’s largest artificial intelligence (AI) computing cluster, powered by 4,000 of Nvidia’s B200 graphics processing units (GPUs). The company has now secured world-class computing capacity with the new infrastructure, which will accelerate the internet giant's efforts to advance its own foundation models and expand AI application across products and industries. Naver said the new B200 cluster combines its in-house technologies in cooling, power distribution and network optimization, based on its experiences in designing and operating large-scale GPU systems, such as Nvidia’s DGX SuperPOD in 2019. “The completion of the latest AI infrastructure is significant because it goes beyond a technology investment to become a core asset that strengthens the nation’s AI competitiveness and technological sovereignty,” Naver CEO Choi Soo-yeon said. “With faster training and iterative development now possible, team Naver will continue delivering practical value by bringing advanced AI across services and industries.” The cluster, designed for massive parallel computing and high-speed interconnects, is expected to deliver performance comparable to some of the high-ranking systems on the world’s top 500 supercomputers, allowing faster AI development. The company’s own simulations showed that training a 72-billion-parameter model that previously took around 18 months on Naver’s A100-based infrastructure with 2,048 GPUs can now be completed in roughly six weeks with the new B200 cluster. Naver explained that with training efficiency improving more than twelvefold, it expects to run more experiments and iterative training cycles to boost model quality while significantly enhancing speed and flexibility across AI model development. The company plans to leverage this new cluster to accelerate the ongoing development of its proprietary foundation models. It aims to scale up training of its Omni models, which are capable of processing text, images, video and audio, to bring their performance to global standards and roll them out across services and industry in stages.   (ICE SEOUL)

Fonte notizia: The Chosun Daily