Singtel, SK Telecom prep GPUaaS choices

Whereas SK Telecom focuses on its residence market, Singtel has partnered on GPUaaS in APAC and Europe

Singtel and SK Telecom have each lately introduced partnerships geared towards GPU-as-a-service (GPUaaS) choices whereby GPU clusters operated by the businesses are made out there for third-party AI workloads. 

Singtel is outwardly casting a large web, saying offers with Bridge Alliance on Aug. 19, Hitachi on Aug. 26, Nscale on Aug. 29, and GMI Cloud on Sept. 3. These all comply with a February announcement from Singtel that it joined the NVIDIA Accomplice Community Cloud Program which brings NVIDIA’s full-stack of {hardware} and software program to Singtel’s Nxera knowledge heart enterprise. 

Bridge Alliance is a consortium of 35 operators who will make use of Singtel’s GPUaaS to carry accelerated computing for AI to markets throughout Southeast Asia, together with Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand. As adoption of the brand new service scales up, Singtel plans to deploy extra GPU clusters. 

Tying this to 5G, Singtel has used its proprietary Paragon orchestration platform to manage “a multi-edge compute and NVIDIA GPU atmosphere whereas enabling prospects to deploy 5G use instances at pace and at scale,” in accordance with the corporate. “With extra telcos deploying 5G community companies, we see this real-time AI providing powered by GPUaaS at 5G edge at low latencies as a key development driver for his or her enterprise enterprise,” Singtel Digital InfraCo CEO Invoice Chang mentioned in a assertion concerning Bridge Alliance members. 

In June this yr Singtel and Hitachi introduced a collaboration to combine Paragon with Hitachi’s AI functions for manufacturing and different enterprise prospects. Within the newest, the 2 corporations are working underneath a memorandum of understanding “to sustainably improve knowledge heart efficiency and capabilities, thereby accelerating AI adoption and digital transformation of enterprises,” in accordance with a press launch. 

With Nscale, an AI cloud platform supplier, Singtel will increase GPU capability in Europe. Nscale operates each AMD and NVIDIA GPUs in its footprint. Whereas Singtel prospects will be capable of entry Nscale infrastructure in Europe, Nscale prospects may have entry to Singtel’s NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPU clusters in Southeast Asia. Paragon will once more be used for orchestration, in accordance with Singtel. 

And the newest, Singtel and GMI Cloud have partnered to, once more, mix their GPU clusters and make them out there as-a-service for enterprise AI functions. GMI Cloud CEO Alex Yeh mentioned the collaboration is “creating an ecosystem that can speed up AI adoption, enabling telecom suppliers and enterprises to boost their companies and drive innovation within the area.” 

In South Korea, SK Telecom is working with GPU cloud agency Lambda “to determine a large-scale NVIDIA GPU cluster” to help cloud companies, together with GPUaaS “on an as-needed foundation to develop or make the most of AI companies,” in accordance with an announcement

.“A strategic partnership with Lambda will strengthen our competitiveness in AI cloud companies and develop larger enterprise alternatives in Korea,”SKT VP and Head of the Enterprise Enterprise Division Kim Kyeong-deog mentioned in an announcement.