NVIDIA bets on IT innovation with NetApp

NetApp storage systems enabled the engineering team to process more than 4.5 million jobs per day.

For two decades, NVIDIA has pioneered visual computing, the art and science of computer graphics. Its technologies are transforming a world of screens into a world of interactive discovery, for everyone from gamers to scientists, from consumers to enterprise customers.

How NVIDIA doubled its technical computing capacity with NetApp and accelerated innovation in new markets

NVIDIA’s graphics processing unit (GPU) technology enables innovations in healthcare, science, transportation, entertainment and more, presenting countless new opportunities for the enterprise. The performance and reliability of your engineered compute farm is absolutely essential to being the first to market with new chip designs, and to increasing revenue and delivering value to your partners and customers. To achieve your business goals today and in the future, high-performance storage is essential.

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About 5,000 engineers were challenged to go beyond the PC and apply the GPU’s high-performance parallel computing capabilities to new lines of business, such as supercomputing, automotive, infotainment, navigation, healthcare and mobile devices.

The company had to innovate rapidly, and engineers had to test and run simulations on the company’s computer fleet every minute, every day. However, the company’s storage infrastructure was slow and overwhelmed by downtime. After evaluating several storage vendors, NVIDIA selected NetApp to provide the reliability and performance needed to drive the business forward. The impact was immediate.

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NVIDIA now has the NetApp storage solution, which, combined with the most reliable and powerful compute farm, allows the company’s engineers to innovate faster and deliver game-changing technologies to all industries. NVIDIA chips are now being used to power computer systems used in cancer and HIV research, to help automakers develop self-driving vehicles, to accelerate the discovery of oil and natural gas, and even to help NASA operate the Curiosity Rover on Mars. Thanks to this and other advancements, NVIDIA is quickly establishing its name outside the realm of PC gaming.

From the beginning, NetApp has worked closely with NVIDIA to build the foundation for this relentless innovation. Since day one, NVIDIA has seen huge improvements in stability and performance, which have only increased over time. Engineers can now perform twice as many jobs per day and respond more quickly to new business requirements. There is a direct correlation between the investment you make in NetApp and the success of the company as a whole.

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“NetApp has allowed us to more than double the capacity of our compute farm in just two years. This is a tremendous success for me and a great achievement for IT,” said Bob Worrall, CIO of NVIDIA Corporation.

Advantages

Currently, NVIDIA’s 15 PB of design data will double in two years, giving the company’s thousands of engineers near-instant access to approximately 40 PB of data. With NetApp, the profits from additional storage systems, caching and other optimizations that make up the overall processing efficiency of the compute factory have more than doubled, and the ratio of CPU time to clock time has also improved. Up to 19% improvement in clock time performance for builds and up to 25% improvement in execution times was observed.

With NetApp at the center of its innovation factory, NVIDIA drives advances in cancer research, PC gaming, visual effects, science, supercomputing and the automotive industry. So with NetApp, NVIDIA finds new ways to confirm that growth is an asset, not a liability.

“Increasing the storage I/O performance of NetApp systems has allowed us to go from 2 million to 4.5 million jobs per day in our compute farm,” explains Pethuraj Perumal, IT Storage Manager at NVIDIA. Additionally, the solution virtually eliminated downtime in the computing environment, providing NVIDIA engineers with uninterrupted access to data that accelerates product time to market.

About NetApp

NetApp creates innovative data storage and management solutions that accelerate business progress and achieve extraordinary profitability. Our commitment to living our core values ​​and being consistently recognized as a great place to work around the world is critical to our long-term growth and success, as well as the success of our partners and customers. Discover our passion for helping businesses around the world go further, faster at www.netapp.com/mx/‎

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