NVIDIA has announced the NVIDIA EGX Edge Supercomputing Platform – a high-performance, Cloud-native platform that lets organisations harness rapidly streaming data from factory floors, manufacturing inspection lines and city streets to securely deliver next-generation artificial intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT) and 5G-based services at scale, with low latency.
“We’ve entered a new era, where billions of always-on IoT sensors will be connected by 5G and processed by AI,” said Jensen Huang, NVIDIA founder and CEO, at a keynote at the start of MWC Los Angeles. “Its foundation requires a new class of highly secure, networked computers operated with ease from far away.
“We’ve created the NVIDIA EGX Edge Supercomputing Platform for this world, where computing moves beyond personal and beyond the cloud to operate at planetary scale,” he said.
The EGX platform features software to support a wide range of applications, including NVIDIA Metropolis, which can be used to build smart cities and intelligent video analytics applications, as well as the just-announced NVIDIA Aerial software developer kit. Aerial allows telcos to build completely virtualised 5G radio access networks that are highly programmable, scalable and energy efficient, and can ultimately enable them to offer new services such as smart factories, AR/VR and Cloud gaming.
As also announced today, early ecosystem partners collaborating with NVIDIA include Microsoft, Ericsson and Red Hat.
Expanding EGX Ecosystem
NVIDIA’s EGX ecosystem includes more than 100 technology companies worldwide, from startups to established software vendors, Cloud service providers, and global server and device manufacturers.
To accelerate the move to edge computing, NVIDIA has expanded its server-certification program to include a new designation, NGC-Ready for Edge, identifying systems powered by NVIDIA T4, Quadro RTX 8000 and V100 Tensor Core GPUs capable of running the most demanding AI workloads at the edge. Dell Technologies, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Lenovo, QCT and Supermicro are among the first to work with NVIDIA to certify their systems, now totaling more than 20 validated servers from more than a dozen manufacturers worldwide.
The EGX software stack architecture is supported by hybrid-cloud partners Canonical, Cisco, Nutanix, Red Hat and VMware.