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DDN Selected by Jump Trading to Accelerate AI Quantitative Trading at Massive Scale

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Wednesday, April 24, 2024

CHATSWORTH, Calif., April 24, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- DDN®, the global leader in artificial intelligence (AI) and multi-cloud data management solutions, today announced that Jump Trading, a leading quantitative trading firm, has selected DDN to bolster its high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure. By leveraging DDN's cutting-edge storage solutions, Jump Trading aims to accelerate its AI-driven quantitative trading strategies and maintain its competitive edge in the fast-paced world of global financial markets.

Key Points: 
  • CHATSWORTH, Calif., April 24, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- DDN ®, the global leader in artificial intelligence (AI) and multi-cloud data management solutions, today announced that Jump Trading, a leading quantitative trading firm, has selected DDN to bolster its high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure.
  • By leveraging DDN's cutting-edge storage solutions, Jump Trading aims to accelerate its AI-driven quantitative trading strategies and maintain its competitive edge in the fast-paced world of global financial markets.
  • By combining high-performance flash storage with intelligent data management software, DDN enables Jump Trading to accelerate data access, optimize storage resources and streamline AI and machine learning workflows.
  • The collaboration between DDN and Jump Trading underscores the growing importance of high-performance storage in the financial services industry, particularly in the realm of AI-driven quantitative trading.

DDN Opens European Demo Lab and Research Office in Collaboration with CINECA

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Wednesday, April 10, 2024

CHATSWORTH, Calif., April 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- DDN ®, the global leader in artificial intelligence (AI) and multi-cloud data management solutions, today announced, in partnership with CINECA , the opening of its European Demo Lab and Research Office.

Key Points: 
  • CHATSWORTH, Calif., April 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- DDN ®, the global leader in artificial intelligence (AI) and multi-cloud data management solutions, today announced, in partnership with CINECA , the opening of its European Demo Lab and Research Office.
  • "Collaborating with a trusted partner such as DDN on the new European Demo Lab and Research office to provide best-in-class infrastructure and tools will help drive innovation forward today and into the future."
  • Located in Bologna, Italy, the new demo lab provides direct, hands-on access to a multitude of DDN solutions, including EXAScaler ®, DDN Insight and Infinia .
  • The new European Demo Lab and Research Office opening event will take place on Wednesday, April 10, 2024, at the new location in Bologna, Italy.

DDN Delivers Four Terabytes per Second of Accelerated Storage Performance in Groundbreaking NVIDIA Eos AI Supercomputer

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Tuesday, March 19, 2024

SAN JOSE, Calif., March 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- (GTC, DDN Booth #816) –  DDN®, the global leader in artificial intelligence (AI) and multi-cloud data management solutions, announces its successful implementation of DDN EXAScaler® AI storage (A3I®) in NVIDIA Eos, a TOP10 supercomputer based on NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD.  

Key Points: 
  • The result is 12 petabytes of DDN storage delivering four terabytes per second of data speed to serve an impressive 18.4 exaflops of FP8 NVIDIA AI performance.
  • NVIDIA Eos powers the largest AI workloads, large language models, recommender systems, and simulations delivering NVIDIA's latest AI innovations.
  • "NVIDIA DGX SuperPODs like Eos provide a full-stack blueprint for turnkey enterprise AI supercomputing, and DDN A3I delivers high performance, power efficient storage for Eos to deliver the data needed for advanced AI training."
  • DDN storage in NVIDIA Eos highlights what organizations and sovereign AI entities in data centers and the cloud can achieve.

DDN Appliance Combines AI Storage and NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs for Enhanced Full-Stack Data Center and Cloud Efficiency

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Tuesday, March 19, 2024

SAN JOSE, Calif., March 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- (GTC, DDN Booth #816) -- DDN®, the global leader in artificial intelligence (AI) and multi-cloud data management solutions, today demonstrated its reference architecture, which integrates NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs into DDN EXAScaler® and Infinia storage appliances. Benefits extend to the full end-to-end AI data center stack, synergizing with networking platforms such as NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet for accelerating multi-tenant AI clouds.

Key Points: 
  • Benefits extend to the full end-to-end AI data center stack, synergizing with networking platforms such as NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet for accelerating multi-tenant AI clouds.
  • The added ability to distribute data operations to client or storage DPUs is critical for effective management and processing of AI data for generative AI clouds and data centers.
  • "DDN has seamlessly integrated NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs into its storage solutions, enabling organizations to scale their AI infrastructures with enhanced efficiency and delivering exceptional performance and value at rack- and data center-scale," said Rob Davis, vice president of storage technology at NVIDIA.
  • DDN will be exhibiting its DDN Infinia and EXAScaler solutions with NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs at booth #816 at NVIDIA GTC , a global AI conference, running through March 21.

DDN AI400X2 Turbo Appliance Accelerates Gen AI and Inference for Data Center and Cloud by 10x

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Tuesday, March 19, 2024

SAN JOSE, Calif., March 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- GTC, DDN Booth #816 -- DDN®, the global leader in artificial intelligence (AI) and multi-cloud data management solutions, today announced the latest addition to its powerful A3I® solutions, the DDN AI400X2 Turbo. 30% more powerful than the AI400X2, the previous industry performance leader, the AI400X2 Turbo boasts faster performance and expanded connectivity options.

Key Points: 
  • How to Safely and Successfully Boost Your Data Center Productivity and ROI : Dr. James Coomer, senior vice president, Products, DDN, will demonstrate concrete technical industry examples on how to achieve full-stack and data center-scale acceleration with data storage solutions.
  • AI Data Summit: Faster and Safer GPU ROI Acceleration in Data Centers and the Cloud: DDN and NVIDIA : Dr. James Coomer, senior vice president, Products, DDN, will join NVIDIA and Lambda to explore how to deploy and scale GPU infrastructures faster and how those deployments can be made more efficient and cost-effective.
  • Accelerate Generative AI ROI and End-to-End ML Life Cycles for LLM by Optimizing Data Architectures : Dr. James Coomer, senior vice president, Products, DDN, will explore how data architectures can accelerate generative AI ROI and end-to-end ML life cycles for LLM.
  • Optimizing AI Data Centers: Advanced Accelerated Data Storage Strategies for Enhanced Productivity and Efficiency : Dr. James Coomer, senior vice president, Products, DDN, will provide a technical presentation that focuses on optimizing NVIDIA GPU data centers through AI-accelerated data storage solutions.

DDN AI400X2 Turbo Appliance Accelerates Gen AI and Inference for Data Center and Cloud by 10x

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Monday, March 18, 2024

SAN JOSE, Calif., March 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- GTC, DDN Booth #816 -- DDN®, the global leader in artificial intelligence (AI) and multi-cloud data management solutions, today announced the latest addition to its powerful A3I® solutions, the DDN AI400X2 Turbo. 30% more powerful than the AI400X2, the previous industry performance leader, the AI400X2 Turbo boasts faster performance and expanded connectivity options.

Key Points: 
  • How to Safely and Successfully Boost Your Data Center Productivity and ROI : Dr. James Coomer, senior vice president, Products, DDN, will demonstrate concrete technical industry examples on how to achieve full-stack and data center-scale acceleration with data storage solutions.
  • AI Data Summit: Faster and Safer GPU ROI Acceleration in Data Centers and the Cloud: DDN and NVIDIA : Dr. James Coomer, senior vice president, Products, DDN, will join NVIDIA and Lambda to explore how to deploy and scale GPU infrastructures faster and how those deployments can be made more efficient and cost-effective.
  • Accelerate Generative AI ROI and End-to-End ML Life Cycles for LLM by Optimizing Data Architectures : Dr. James Coomer, senior vice president, Products, DDN, will explore how data architectures can accelerate generative AI ROI and end-to-end ML life cycles for LLM.
  • Optimizing AI Data Centers: Advanced Accelerated Data Storage Strategies for Enhanced Productivity and Efficiency : Dr. James Coomer, senior vice president, Products, DDN, will provide a technical presentation that focuses on optimizing NVIDIA GPU data centers through AI-accelerated data storage solutions.

DDN to Support Deployment of New Large-Scale NVIDIA GPU Clouds

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Monday, March 18, 2024

SAN JOSE, Calif., March 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- (GTC, DDN Booth #816) -- DDN®, the global leader in artificial intelligence (AI) and multi-cloud data management solutions, today announced worldwide support for Cloud Partners in the NVIDIA Partner Network hosting large-scale GPU services. This support expands upon DDN's success with NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD customers and AI cloud providers building hosted solutions for large-scale model training.

Key Points: 
  • DDN Supplies Optimized Data Management Solutions to Cloud Partners in the NVIDIA Partner Network for Distributed Training of LLMs, Foundation Models & Generative AI
    SAN JOSE, Calif., March 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- (GTC, DDN Booth #816) -- DDN ®, the global leader in artificial intelligence (AI) and multi-cloud data management solutions, today announced worldwide support for Cloud Partners in the NVIDIA Partner Network hosting large-scale GPU services.
  • This support expands upon DDN's success with NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD customers and AI cloud providers building hosted solutions for large-scale model training.
  • DDN announces worldwide support for Cloud Partners in the NVIDIA Partner Network hosting large-scale GPU services.
  • With a strong track record of deployments backing hundreds of thousands of NVIDIA GPUs worldwide, DDN has repeatedly demonstrated its ability to make GPU-based cloud implementations more efficient and cost-effective.

DDN and Sandia National Laboratories Collaboration Expands Infinia Data Platform Ecosystem for Data at Scale and Parallel Workloads

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Tuesday, November 14, 2023

CHATSWORTH, Calif., Nov. 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- DDN®, the global leader in artificial intelligence (AI) and multi-cloud data management solutions, collaborated with Sandia National Laboratories to enhance its DDN Infinia ecosystem support and optimization for high-performance computing (HPC) workloads. The result is enhanced data provisioning, high-performance at scale and quality of service (QoS) benefits for Sandia's extreme data, scale and parallelism workload needs.

Key Points: 
  • The result is enhanced data provisioning, high-performance at scale and quality of service (QoS) benefits for Sandia's extreme data, scale and parallelism workload needs.
  • "Working with DDN to influence the capabilities of its data management platform for our wide range of interfaces with different usage requirements addresses interesting challenges," said James Laros, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories.
  • DDN has been a trusted technology partner, demonstrating it can handle today's data requirements with the ability to scale and troubleshoot potential data needs of tomorrow."
  • Our collaboration with Sandia has allowed us to further expand DDN Infinia's data management capabilities that will meet their complex requirements today and well into the future."

DDN Launches Infinia Next-Generation Software-Defined Storage for Enterprise AI and Cloud Needs Everywhere and All at Once

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Wednesday, November 8, 2023

CHATSWORTH, Calif., Nov. 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- DDN®, the global leader in artificial intelligence (AI) and multi-cloud data management solutions, today announced DDN Infinia – a next-generation software-defined storage platform which leverages two decades of DDN engineering in file system, data orchestration and AI-based optimization, all coming together to usher the era of accelerated computing and generative AI.

Key Points: 
  • DDN Infinia combines multi-tenancy at scale, containerization and the highest levels of speed and efficiency customers have come to expect from DDN systems, with ease of management and powerful security attributes.
  • DDN Infinia removes hardware dependencies with built-in core features to answer the requirements for secure enterprise-wide AI data management.
  • DDN Infinia fulfills data management requirements with a new software-defined platform that delivers high performance and is simple to deploy and scale.
  • DDN Infinia is also available for deployment on Google Cloud, with additional cloud support coming in the future.

DDN Launches Infinia Next-Generation Software-Defined Storage for Enterprise AI and Cloud Needs Everywhere and All at Once

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Wednesday, November 8, 2023

CHATSWORTH, Calif., Nov. 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- DDN®, the global leader in artificial intelligence (AI) and multi-cloud data management solutions, today announced DDN Infinia – a next-generation software-defined storage platform which leverages two decades of DDN engineering in file system, data orchestration and AI-based optimization, all coming together to usher the era of accelerated computing and generative AI.

Key Points: 
  • DDN Infinia combines multi-tenancy at scale, containerization and the highest levels of speed and efficiency customers have come to expect from DDN systems, with ease of management and powerful security attributes.
  • DDN Infinia removes hardware dependencies with built-in core features to answer the requirements for secure enterprise-wide AI data management.
  • DDN Infinia fulfills data management requirements with a new software-defined platform that delivers high performance and is simple to deploy and scale.
  • DDN Infinia is also available for deployment on Google Cloud, with additional cloud support coming in the future.