Nvidia announced at Mobile World Congress that it is partnering with Google Cloud to set up the industry’s first AI-on-5G Innovation Lab with a view to accelerating the creation of smart cities, smart factories and other advanced 5G and artificial intelligence applications. Starting in the second half of the year, the lab will give participating network infrastructure and AI software partners access to Google Cloud’s Anthos platform and Nvidia computing hardware and software platforms that let them harness data and AI to drive business performance, improve operational efficiency and optimise safety and reliability, said the companies.
The news comes a couple of months after Nvidia said it would be teaming with Google Cloud, Fujitsu, Mavenir, Radisys and Wind River to develop solutions for its AI-on-5G platform. Under the partnership, Google Cloud is extending the Anthos application platform to the network edge, allowing telecommunications service providers and enterprises to rapidly deliver new services and applications over 5G.
Nvidia said its AI-on-5G platform gives enterprises, mobile network operators and cloud service providers a single, converged foundation for handling both 5G and edge AI computing. The platform uses the Nvidia Aerial software development kit with the Nvidia BlueField-2 A100 converged card that combines GPUs and DPUs as well as the company’s '5T for 5G' solution.
The company also announced at MWC that the next-generation of its Aerial A100 AI-on-5G computing platform will incorporate 16 Arm-based CPU cores into the Nvidia BlueField-3 A100 to create a self-contained, converged card that delivers enterprise edge AI applications over cloud-native 5G vRAN with improved performance per watt and faster time to deployment.
