NHN Cloud, a leading cloud service provider in South Korea, has selected Dell Technologies to provide the infrastructure for its new AI and high performance computing (HPC) facility.

The Gwangju AI data center will provide the compute needed for NHN Cloud customers running AI and HPC projects. The Dell-powered infrastructure will also run national AI research and development AI research and development projects in South Korea through an agreement with Gwangju Metropolitan City, South Korea and South Korea’s Artificial Intelligence Industry Cluster Agency.  

“Reliable infrastructure is key for making AI work,” said Donghoon Kim, chief executive officer, NHN Cloud. “We are seeing substantial demand from the public and private sectors for computing resources to support AI. With industry-leading cloud services and powerful infrastructure solutions from Dell Technologies, we’re able to deliver a robust platform to our customers researching and using AI.”

NHN Cloud’s new data center will use Dell PowerEdge XE9680 servers, each equipped with eight NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs and offering lower operating costs for NHN Cloud along with a more efficient environmental footprint. Based on average power usage effectiveness (PUE) ratings among South Korea data centers, the new facility will be more energy efficient than average data centers in the country[i]. The data center will also be the first NVIDIA H100 GPU-based data center designed specifically for AI and HPC workloads in South Korea.

“AI is becoming one of the most important tools for organizations of all types and sizes,” said Kevin Kim, senior vice president and managing director, Korea, Dell Technologies. “Through our collaboration, we will continue to help public and private organizations unlock the power of AI.”

The cloud service provider will use Dell ProSupport for Infrastructure services to get the maximum uptime from its new PowerEdge XE9680 servers[ii]. ProSupport offers a combination of IT expertise, proactive issue detection with automated case creation, and insights through AIOps tools, including CloudIQ, which proactively monitors the health of Dell IT infrastructure using machine learning, to support the new servers.

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2. [i] NHN Cloud predicts the Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) of the Gwangju AI Data Center will be 1.33, which is about 20% lower than the average PUE of other domestic data centers in South Korea. PUE is an indicator of power usage efficiency. The lower the number is, and the closer it is to one, the higher the efficiency. The average PUE of domestic private data centers is 1.73, according to the Korea IT Service Industry Association.
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