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Scaleway Accelerates AI Innovation with DDN

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Overview

Scaleway, a European leader in cloud and AI services, needed to support its growing portfolio of AI workloads with a scalable and high-performance data platform. As AI adoption has surged, the demand for efficient, sustainable, and powerful infrastructure has continued to increase. Partnering with DDN enabled Scaleway to meet these needs, ensuring its customers have access to world-class AI training environments. 

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We needed a top-performing data solution to complement NVIDIA’s high-end DGX GPU cluster offering. Now our clients can train very large AI models over a distributed solution that’s directly connected to the GPU clusters

Adrienne JanChief Product Officer at Scaleway
Scaleway: Customer Testimonial

Challenges 

As AI workloads grow in complexity, Scaleway faces several challenges, including: 

  • ScalabilityProviding enough storage to support large AI models without compromising performance. 
  • High-performance requirementsEnsuring their data infrastructure could keep pace with the intense data demands of distributed GPU clusters. 
  • SustainabilityMaintaining high energy efficiency and resource conservation in line with Scaleway’s environmental goals. 
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We’re seeing more and more companies looking for large AI infrastructures for training and computing, and we needed to scale to meet that demand

Adrienne JanChief Product Officer at Scaleway.

Solution: Partnership with DDN 

To address these challenges, Scaleway turned to DDN’s AI data platform, which is designed for high-performance environments like Scaleway’s NVIDIA DGX GPU clusters. By leveraging DDN’s solutions, Scaleway was able to provide its clients with the robust, scalable infrastructure required for advanced AI training. 

Key elements of DDN’s solution include: 

  • High-throughput storage Optimized for the demanding AI workloads Scaleway’s clients require. 
  • Sustainable infrastructure DDN’s energy-efficient data solution seamlessly integrated with Scaleway’s sustainability-focused data center, DC5, which uses adiabatic cooling to lower energy and water consumption. 
  • Seamless integration with AI workloads DDN’s solution was directly connected to Scaleway’s GPU clusters, ensuring smooth data access and performance across all nodes. 
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We’ve been blown away by the quality and linearity of DDN’s solution. It allows us to maintain consistent performance across all nodes accessing data, even as demand grows

Adrienne JanChief Product Officer at Scaleway

Results

Scaleway’s partnership with DDN has delivered powerful results, enabling the company to enhance its AI infrastructure significantly: 

  • Scalable infrastructure With 1.8 petabytes of storage distributed across the cluster, Scaleway’s clients can efficiently train even the largest AI models. 
  • High performance and reliability DDN’s solution ensures that AI workloads run smoothly, with no performance slowdowns as data demands increase. 
  • Sustainability By integrating with Scaleway’s energy-efficient data center, DDN helped minimize the environmental impact of scaling AI infrastructure. 
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Most of our clients are training large or very large AI models, so having 1.8 petabytes of capacity distributed across the whole cluster is key for ease of training and reactivity of job parallelization

Adrienne JanChief Product Officer at Scaleway

Business Outcome 

Thanks to DDN’s high-performance and scalable solutions, Scaleway is now equipped to meet the growing demands of AI development. Scaleway can confidently offer its clients cutting-edge AI infrastructure with seamless, reliable, and sustainable performance. 

  • Operational efficiency DDN’s integration reduced the complexity of managing large AI workloads, improving system performance and efficiency. 
  • Future-proof infrastructure Scaleway is now prepared to support future AI innovations and larger, more complex AI models. 
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DDN has supported us every step of the way, allowing us to offer a qualitative experience to our AI clients. Their partnership is a key part of our ability to deliver world-class AI solutions

Adrienne JanChief Product Officer at Scaleway

Looking Ahead 

Scaleway and DDN will continue their collaboration to push the boundaries of AI infrastructure. As AI workloads evolve, Scaleway is poised to meet new challenges with DDN’s high-performance solutions. 

Last Updated
Oct 30, 2024 8:04 AM