December 17, 2024, Denmark – Denmark’s AI supercomputer, Gefion, has made it onto the list of the 7th overall-ranked production storage systems and 4th in the 10-node benchmark on the prestigious IO500 list, confirming its worth on a global scale. This international ranking highlights Gefion’s world-class data handling capabilities while firmly backing it up as one of the leaders in AI and high-performance computing (HPC).
The IO500 measures storage performance, including read, write, and data transfer speeds, important aspects for model training and large-scale simulations with an AI. Gefion’s outstanding input/output (IO) performance ensures a fast data access/retrieval rate that allows researchers to conduct within hours what would otherwise take weeks of processing with petabytes of actual data.
Gefion has also just recently scored 21st place on the TOP500 list of the most powerful supercomputers worldwide, which shows even further its combined strength of compute power and data efficiency.
“Gefion’s ranking on the IO500 list is another testament to our commitment to pushing technological boundaries in advanced computing for AI and research,” says Nadia Carlsten, CEO of the Danish Centre for AI Innovation (DCAI), which runs and operates Gefion.
“The powerful data storage and processing capabilities of Gefion mean that researchers can run larger, more intricate simulations and process datasets faster than ever,” she continues, emphasizing Gefion’s impact.
“Gefion is a monumental step forward for AI research and innovation, delivering the scale and precision needed to tackle the most complex challenges in fields like healthcare, sustainable energy, and quantum computing,” says Alex Bouzari, Co-founder and CEO of Data Direct Networks (DDN), who is supplying storage for the Gefion AI supercomputer.
Gefion, powered by semiconductor giant NVIDIA, is based on the architecture of SuperPOD NVIDIA DGX, which consists of 1,528 interconnected NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs with networking based on NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand.
Designed with future scalability, Gefion allows new generations of NVIDIA technology to be adopted seamlessly–guaranteeing that Denmark will always maintain its status as the world leader in AI and HPC innovations.
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