KUALA LUMPUR: YTL Power International will deploy and manage one of the world's most advanced supercomputers with the DGX Cloud, powered by NVIDIA Grace Blackwell.

The company announced the formation of YTL AI Cloud, a specialised provider of massive-scale GPU-based accelerated computing.

YTL AI supercomputer will surpass more than 300 exaflops of artificial intelligence (AI) compute, making it one of the fastest supercomputers in the world, it said in a statement.

With the help of an AI supercomputer, generative AI technologies should progress more quickly, it said.

YTL Power is one of the first companies to use the fifth-generation NVLink-equipped, multi-node, liquid-cooled NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 rack-scale system. 

The company said that the supercomputer will be connected using the NVIDIA Quantum InfiniBand networking infrastructure.

This platform is similar to a single GPU, with 1.4 exaflops of AI capability and 30TB of high-speed memory that can handle even the most demanding computational tasks, it said.

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim congratulated YTL on this significant milestone, a first for Malaysia.

"This will accelerate the country's adoption of AI and spearhead the development of our own sovereign cloud. The collaboration with NVIDIA is a testament to Malaysia's attractiveness as a hub for digital investments," Anwar said in the statement.

YTL Power managing director, Datuk Seri Yeoh Seok Hong, said the company is proud to be working with NVIDIA and the Malaysian government to bring powerful AI cloud computing here.

"We are excited to bring this supercomputing power to the Asia Pacific region, which has been home to many of the fastest-growing cloud regions and many of the most innovative users of AI in the world," he said.

Gobind Singh Deo, Malaysia's Minister of Digital, said that AI plays a key role in propelling the global digital economy.

He said it is important for Malaysia to have one of the strongest NVIDIA cloud computing infrastructures, as this will spur innovation.

"Having one of the most powerful NVIDIA cloud computing infrastructures in Malaysia is a game changer and will spark innovation and development of solutions foundational to the success of the Malaysia Digital Economy Blueprint," he said.

https://www.nst.com.my/business/corporate/2024/03/1027554/ytl-power-develops-one-worlds-best-advanced-supercomputers