Seagate becomes member of I4DI in Driving Design of AI Supercomputer
Seagate has announced to be the newest member of the Innovations for Digital Infrastructure (I4DI), a partnership of innovative global technology leaders that are developing European-based supercomputing solutions to advance the region’s capabilities in solving the performance, power and efficiency issues challenging the industry today. It joins founding members PosAm, Towercom and Tachyum, and thus the partnership with SAV (Slovak Academy of Sciences) and MIRRI SR (Ministry of Investment, Regional Development and Informatization of the Slovak Republic) within the National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC).
I4DI provides freedom and openness similar to Open Compute to the European HPC market. The consortium brings together companies in storage, networking, rack manufacturing, power, software, services and telecommunications spaces to help transform the entire EU region from an importer of data center and supercomputer technologies to an innovative leader in research for worldwide AI and HPC solutions. Seagate brings to the I4DI its 40+ years of experience in helping overcome exponential data growth with its breakthrough hard drives, solid state drives, systems and recovery services.
Mohamad El-Batal, EDS Chief Technologist and a member of the Seagate CTO office, says, “We recognize the importance of working with fellow technology companies to develop solutions that better both the industry as a whole and our standing within it. Joining the I4DI provides us with the opportunity to expand innovation that addresses the specific needs of the EMEA region while advancing technologies that can then be deployed to a worldwide marketplace. We look forward to the I4DI being a fruitful endeavor for all involved.”
The EU consumes 30 percent of the world’s supercomputing resources but has only 5 percent of the world’s capacity based on a recent EU report. This discrepancy has led the EU Commission to set out to determine its own destiny by building its own supercomputers and data centers, with improved efficiency and resource utilization to combat increased carbon emissions and global warming associated with traditional compute infrastructures.
I4DI-designed data centers will serve as a blueprint for future government or commercial cloud initiatives such as InoCloud. Because of dual use – both commercially and for government/AI workloads, new I4DI datacenters will be more efficient, enabling hardware utilization rates to improve to more than 90 percent vs. their current 40 percent utilization rates.
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