NVIDIA Unveils AI Platform to Minimize Downtime in Supercomputing Data Centers
22 June 2020 - 05:00PM
ISC Digital—NVIDIA today unveiled the NVIDIA®
Mellanox® UFM® Cyber-AI platform, which minimizes downtime in
InfiniBand data centers by harnessing AI-powered analytics to
detect security threats and operational issues, as well as predict
network failures.
This extension of the UFM platform product portfolio — which has
managed InfiniBand systems for nearly a decade — applies AI to
learn a data center’s operational cadence and network workload
patterns, drawing on both real-time and historic telemetry and
workload data. Against this baseline, it tracks the system’s health
and network modifications, and detects performance degradations,
usage and profile changes.
The new platform provides alerts of abnormal system and
application behavior, and potential system failures and threats, as
well as performs corrective actions. It is also targeted to deliver
security alerts in cases of attempted system hacking to host
undesired applications, such as cryptocurrency mining. The result
is reduced data center downtime — which typically costs more than
$300,000 an hour, according to research by ITIC.(1)
“The UFM Cyber-AI platform determines a data center’s unique
vital signs and uses them to identify performance degradation,
component failures and abnormal usage patterns,” said Gilad
Shainer, senior vice president of marketing for Mellanox networking
at NVIDIA. “It allows system administrators to quickly detect and
respond to potential security threats and address upcoming
failures, saving cost and ensuring consistent service to
customers.”
Ecosystem SupportOrganizations that have long
been employing the UFM platform in their data centers have
expressed strong interest in the latest offering.
Allan Williams, associate director of services and technology at
the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI Australia), said:
“NCI plays a pivotal role in the national research landscape. Our
supercomputing infrastructure serves 5,000 researchers who use it
for critical national and global activities. UFM enables us to
effectively manage our supercomputers and to optimize performance.
We look forward to utilizing the new capabilities of UFM Cyber-AI
to enhance even further our supercomputing utilization and improve
our return on investment.”
Douglas Johnson, associate director of the Ohio Supercomputer
Center, said: “We have been using the UFM platform for years in our
InfiniBand data centers. UFM and the expertise from the Mellanox
networking team have been fundamental ingredients in the management
of our network and the stability we’ve achieved. We see great
advantages in the UFM Cyber-AI platform.”
Extending UFM PlatformThe UFM Cyber-AI platform
complements the UFM Enterprise platform, which provides network
monitoring, management, performance optimization, configuration
checks and secure cable management.
NVIDIA also added today a third member of the UFM family, the
UFM Telemetry platform. This tool captures real-time network
telemetry data, which is streamed to an on-premises or cloud-based
database to monitor network performance and validate the network
configuration.
Supporting Resources:
- Learn more about the UFM Appliance product line.
- Learn more about NVIDIA Mellanox Quantum™ HDR 200Gb/s
InfiniBand Smart Switches.
- Learn more about NVIDIA Mellanox ConnectX®-6 HDR 200Gb/s
InfiniBand adapters.
About NVIDIA NVIDIA’s (NASDAQ: NVDA) invention
of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market,
redefined modern computer graphics and revolutionized parallel
computing. More recently, GPU deep learning ignited modern AI — the
next era of computing — with the GPU acting as the brain of
computers, robots and self-driving cars that can perceive and
understand the world. More information at
http://nvidianews.nvidia.com/.
For further information, contact:Kristin
UchiyamaSenior PR ManagerNVIDIA
Corporation+1-408-313-0448kuchiyama@nvidia.com
(1) ITIC 2020 Global Server Hardware, Server OS
Reliability Survey — March 2020
https://www.ibm.com/downloads/cas/DV0XZV6R.
Certain statements in this press release including, but not
limited to, statements as to: the benefits, performance and
abilities of the NVIDIA Mellanox UFM Cyber-AI platform; the UFM
Cyber-AI platform’s ability to use a data center’s vital sign to
detect performance degradation, component failures and abnormal
usage patterns, and it allowing system administrators to detect and
respond to threats and address upcoming failures; organizations
having strong interest in the UFM platform; the advantages in the
UFM Cyber-AI platform; leveraging the capabilities of UFM-AI to
improve supercomputing operations and protect compute and storage
resources; and the benefits and performance of the UFM Enterprise
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