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Yotta launches Shakti Cloud – India's largest supercomputer with 16 exaflops AI computing power with NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPU to drive large-scale AI innovation in India
MUMBAI, India, Dec. 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Yotta Data Services today announced a collaboration with NVIDIA to deliver cutting-edge GPU computing platforms and infrastructure for its Shakti Cloud platform. The collaboration will boost the development of AI solutions in India by putting next-generation AI capabilities within the reach of numerous organizations, enterprises, AI researchers and a host of startups across the country. With this offering, Yotta customers will be able to train large language models (LLM) and other AI workloads that meet the growing needs of the Indian, Asian and broader global markets.
Yotta has already placed a major order for NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs, a powerful GPU for AI and HPC workloads, and plans to go live with 4,096 GPUs by January 2024 and 16,384 GPUs by June 2024. With full NVIDIA support and a shared vision to develop India's sovereign AI landscape, Yotta also plans to massively increase its GPU stable to 32,768 by the end of 2025. This will directly address the huge demand for high-performance GPUs by research labs, enterprises and startups for HPC and AI workloads.
With this collaboration, Yotta becomes the first NVIDIA Partner Network Cloud Partner (NCP) in India and joins NCP's global roster as an Elite Partner.
Additionally, Yotta is operationalizing an NVIDIA-powered reference architecture with NVIDIA InfiniBand networking that will enable GPU clusters to deliver high performance at scale for large AI training and inference workloads, as well as HPC workloads. .
Yotta's Shakti Cloud AI platform will include multiple PaaS services from day one, including foundational AI models and applications that will help Indian businesses build powerful AI tools and products.
Yotta will deploy the first 16,384 GPU cluster at NM1, Yotta's most acclaimed and largest Asia Uptime Tier-IV data center, located in Navi Mumbai. Next, Yotta will deploy a similarly sized cluster at D1, Yotta's newest and largest hyperscale data center in Greater Noida, near Delhi.
This collaboration comes at a time of phenomenal growth in AI adoption efforts in India, where the country is becoming a hub for research, online gaming and digital content creation. AI adoption in India is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of over 20% to reach $14 billion by 2030. Similarly, the Indian gaming industry is expected to grow furiously to reach $5 billion by 2025. All of these industries rely heavily on GPU computing to meet expected customer demands.
Darshan Hiranandani, Co-Founder and Chairman of Yotta, and Sunil Gupta, Co-Founder and CEO of Yotta, share the enthusiasm. "Yotta is proud to join forces with NVIDIA, a global leader in GPU technology, in India to launch our Shakti Cloud platform and usher in a new era of computing innovation in line with the Hon'ble Prime Minister's vision of a digital Bharat. We are excited to embark on this journey, leveraging our scalable data center and cloud infrastructure and NVIDIA's cutting-edge GPU technology to empower Indian enterprises, governments, startups and researchers with unparalleled GPU-as-a-Service solutions to catalyze advances. In AI, machine learning, gaming, content creation and scientific research. Yotta aims to accelerate innovation and transform industries across India, offering the power of NVIDIA GPUs as a service to drive growth, efficiency and excellence. This collaborative work represents an important milestone in our journey, and we are excited about the endless possibilities it offers for our clients and for India as a whole. “We are also grateful for the continued support of the Ministry of Information Technology and the governments of Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh for making this a reality.”
Commenting on this development, Jay Puri, executive vice president of global field operations at NVIDIA, said: "India has become a vibrant hub for technological innovation and digital transformation. Our collaboration with Yotta will help open access to specialized infrastructure that makes AI possible at scale and brings GPU capabilities to customers in India, accelerating advancements in AI and driving innovation across industries.”
Key highlights of the collaboration:
Yotta aims to democratize access to GPU resources, fostering innovation and competitiveness in various sectors. Yotta's Shakti Cloud will offer GPUs and various associated AI and PaaS services in a highly cost-effective manner on an hourly usage model, with options for long-term reservations.
Yotta's commitment to technological excellence and innovation aligns perfectly with its mission to accelerate digital transformation across India.
To read more about Yotta's Shakti Cloud GPU-as-a-Service offerings, visit: https://yotta.com/shakticloud
About Yotta
Yotta Data Services is a new-age digital transformation service provider offering cloud, GPU, data center hosting, connectivity, cybersecurity services, cyber workspaces, managed applications and a wide range of managed IT services. Yotta operates its cloud regions in its two hyperscale data center parks in Panvel (Navi Mumbai) and Greater Noida (Delhi). The Yotta cloud is composed of Meity (VCC and GCC). Yotta is working to launch its open source-based feature-rich hyperscale cloud “Yntraa” by the end of 2023.
Yotta's first data center - Yotta NM1 data center in Panvel, part of a gigantic 600 MW DC campus, has been recognized as the best data center in APAC by the Datacloud Global Awards in 2021 and 2023 and is the second largest Uptime Institute Level IV certified facility in the world. Yotta Greater Noida DC Park, inaugurated in October 2022, is a gigantic 180 MW campus, the largest in the entire north of India. Yotta's numerous recognitions and certifications include RBI's Cyber Security and Localization Framework, ISO27017 for Protection of Personal Information in the Public Cloud, ISO 27701 for Privacy Information Management (PIMS), PCI-DSS and SOC2-Type 2 , SOC3, among others. For more information, visit www.yotta.com
About NVIDIA Corporation
NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA) is a global leader in GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) technology. The company designs and manufactures advanced GPUs that power a wide range of applications, including gaming, artificial intelligence, data centers and automotive computing. NVIDIA's innovative technology is driving advances in industries such as deep learning, autonomous vehicles and supercomputing. Founded in 1993 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, NVIDIA continues to revolutionize computing, providing solutions that enable people and businesses to achieve unprecedented levels of performance. For more information, visit www.nvidia.com
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