YTL Power International Bhd will deploy and manage one of the world’s most advanced supercomputers on Nvidia Grace Blackwell-powered DGX Cloud – an AI supercomputer for accelerating the development of generative AI.

YTL Power said it was among the first companies to adopt the Nvidia GB200 NVL72, which is a multi-node, liquid-cooled, rack-scale system with fifth-generation NVLink.

In a statement today announcing the formation of YTL AI Cloud, it said the supercomputer will be interconnected by Nvidia Quantum InfiniBand networking platform.

NVIDIA founder/CEO said the chipmaker was working with YTL AI Cloud to bring a world-class accelerated computing platform to Southeast Asia.

“This latest supercomputer marks one of the first deployments of the Nvidia GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip on DGX Cloud, supporting the growth of accelerated computing in the Asia Pacific region,” he said in the same statement.

The statement was timed to coincide with Nvidia’s developer’s conference in San Jose, US, coming at a time that the technology giant was seeking to solidify its position as the go-to supplier for AI companies.

It said the YTL AI Supercomputer will be located in a 1,640-acre data center facility in the YTL Green Data Center Campus, Johor, powered by a renewable energy source from its on-site 500MW solar power facility.

The supercomputer will help meet the demand for highly scalable, high-performance cloud-based solutions for AI/ML workloads, it added. –TMR