Nvidia announced the availability of Nvidia AI Enterprise, a software suite of AI tools and frameworks that enables the hundreds of thousands of companies running VMware vSphere to virtualise AI workloads on Nvidia-certified systems.
Leading manufacturers Atos, Dell Technologies, Gigabyte, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Inspur, Lenovo and Supermicro are offering Nvidia-certified systems optimised for AI workloads on VMware vSphere with Nvidia AI Enterprise. Separately, Dell Technologies announced Dell EMC VxRail as the first hyperconverged platform to be qualified as a certified system for Nvidia AI Enterprise.
To help teams of data scientists run their AI workloads most efficiently, Domino Data Lab announced it's validating its Domino Enterprise MLOps Platform with Nvidia AI Enterprise, which runs on mainstream Nvidia Systems.
Among the earliest to use Nvidia AI Enterprise is Cerence, a provider of conversational AI for automotive and mobility markets with nearly 400 million Cerence-powered vehicles shipped worldwide. The company is using AI Enterprise to develop intelligent in-car assistants and digital co-pilots.
In addition, University of Pisa, an Italian public research university, is supporting HPC and AI training across multiple disciplines to advance scientific studies with the Nvidia software.
Nvidia AI Enterprise enables IT professionals that use VMware vSphere to run traditional enterprise applications to support AI workloads while using the same tools they use to manage large-scale data centres and hybrid clouds.
Nvidia-certified systems feature a wide range of Nvidia GPUs, including the A100, A30, A40, A10 and T4. These mainstream accelerated systems provide customers with a broad selection of options for scale-out, multinode, AI application performance on vSphere that is virtually indistinguishable from bare-metal servers.
Nvidia AI Enterprise is available from Nvidia channel partners worldwide, including Atea, Carahsoft, Computacenter, Insight Enterprises, NTT, SoftServe and SVA System Vertrieb Alexander.
Subscription licenses start at USD 2,000 per CPU socket for one year and include Business Standard Support (five days a week, nine hours a day). Perpetual licences are USD 3,595 and require additional support purchase. Customers can upgrade to Business Critical Support for non-stop access to Nvidia AI expertise.
