Singapore – Hitachi Vantara, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., has recently introduced Hitachi iQ, an end-to-end solution powered by the NVIDIA HGX. This new solution delivers fast, scalable, and resilient infrastructure tailored for modern AI systems.
As a new initiative, it further offers cost-efficient solutions for applications such as large language models, inferencing, model training, digital twins, analytics, and image processing. Particularly, it also aims to maximise AI performance and reliability, with Hitachi iQ saturating GPUs with data to deliver faster time to insight.
Moreover, the Hitachi iQ with NVIDIA HGX combines storage, networking, servers with NVIDIA H100 and H200 Tensor Core GPU options, and the NVIDIA AI Enterprise end-to-end, cloud-native software platform for the development and deployment of generative AI applications.
It also delivers improved data processing of distributed file systems that allows for more effective pattern identification, while access to diverse datasets helps AI models learn from a wider range of scenarios.
Furthermore, with NVIDIA HGX, Hitachi iQ improves the economics and sustainability of AI through a zero-copy architecture that eliminates wasteful data copying and transfer times between storage silos for different phases of AI.
On the other hand, the updated Hitachi Content Software for File platform with generation 5 PCIe adds extreme performance capabilities for Hitachi iQ and other data solutions where performance is mission-critical and provides significant performance upgrades for high-performance computing and artificial intelligence workloads.
High-density object storage integrated with Hitachi Content Software for File also enables scaling of compute and storage independently with the flexibility to adapt to diverse and fluctuating data sizes, data types, and workloads.
Jason Hardy, chief technology officer for artificial intelligence at Hitachi Vantara, said, “Our customers are looking for advanced solutions to meet the ever-evolving demands of AI, and the Hitachi iQ offering with NVIDIA HGX is the latest example of how we are at the forefront of AI innovation.”
“As one of the only vendors to offer a complete, end-to-end AI infrastructure solution, we marry world-class technology with deep industry expertise for a powerful, one-stop-shop experience,” Hardy further added.
Shar Narasimhan, director of data centre GPUs and AI at NVIDIA, also stated, “Pairing NVIDIA’s accelerated computing platform with the deep industrial expertise of Hitachi Vantara helps address the growing demand for enterprise-grade AI infrastructure and applications, delivering high-performance computing capabilities for AI workloads to enable faster training, fine-tuning, and inferencing.”
Meanwhile, Allen Lee, managing director of Genesis Networks Pte Ltd, commented, “There is immense pressure to leverage AI right now, but in the education space, it needs to tie directly to ROI. Optimised to drive industry-specific results from a partner with the experience to help us make it happen, that’s what we see in Hitachi iQ.”
