Yotta Data Services from India has announced a strategic relationship with global GPU technology provider NVIDIA. The cooperation is aimed at delivering cutting-edge GPU computing infrastructure and platforms for Yotta’s Shakti Cloud platform, advancing the development of AI solutions across India by bringing state-of-the-art AI capabilities within reach of numerous organizations.
Yotta Data Services is a cutting-edge supplier of digital transformation services in India, which include managed applications, cloud computing, GPUs, data center hosting, connectivity, cybersecurity services, and cyber workspaces. At its two hyperscale data center parks in Panvel (Navi Mumbai) and Greater Noida (Delhi), Yotta runs its cloud regions. The Meity empaneled cloud of Yotta (VCC & GCC). By the end of 2023, Yotta hopes to introduce ‘Yntraa,’ an open source hyperscale cloud with a wealth of features.
Through the strategic relationship with NVIDIA, Yotta’s clients would be able to train AI workloads, such as large language models (LLMs), to meet the increasing demands of the Indian, Asian, and wider global markets.
With intentions to launch with 4096 GPUs by January 2024 and 16,384 GPUs by June 2024, Yotta Data Services has already placed a sizable order for NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs, a powerful GPU for AI and HPC applications. By the end of 2025, Yotta also intends to significantly scale up its GPU stable to 32,768 with full support from NVIDIA and a common goal of creating India's own AI environment. This would immediately meet research laboratories’, businesses’, and startups’ enormous need for high-performance GPUs for HPC and AI workloads.
Yotta enters the worldwide NVIDIA Partner Network cloud partner (NCP) list as an Elite Partner and becomes the first NVIDIA Partner Network cloud partner in India as a result of this partnership.
“India has emerged as a vibrant hub for technological innovation and digital transformation,” said Jay Puri, Executive Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations at NVIDIA. “Our collaboration with Yotta will help open up access to the specialized infrastructure that makes AI possible at scale and bring GPU capabilities to customers in India, accelerating advancements in AI and fostering innovation across industries.”
Range of PaaS Services
Additionally, Yotta is implementing a reference architecture powered by NVIDIA and equipped with NVIDIA InfiniBand networking, which would enable GPU clusters to provide the highest performance at scale for large-scale HPC and AI training and inferencing applications.
From the start, Yotta's Shakti Cloud AI platform will provide a range of PaaS services, including fundamental AI models and apps that will assist Indian businesses in developing effective AI tools and solutions.
The first cluster of 16,384 GPUs will be installed by Yotta at NM1, the company's large Uptime Tier-IV data center in Asia, which is situated in Navi Mumbai. Next, Yotta plans to set up a cluster of a comparable size at D1, its biggest and most recent hyperscale data center located in Greater Noida, close to Delhi.
“Yotta is proud to join forces with NVIDIA, a global leader in GPU technology, in India to launch our Shakti Cloud platform to usher in a new era of computing innovation in line with the vision of the Hon'ble Prime Minister for a digital Bharat. We're excited to embark on this journey, leveraging our scalable cloud and data center infrastructure and NVIDIA's cutting-edge GPU technology to empower Indian businesses, governments, startups, and researchers with unparalleled GPU-as-a-Service solutions to catalyze advancements in AI, machine learning, gaming, content creation, and scientific research,” said Darshan Hiranandani, Co-founder & Chairman of Yotta, and Sunil Gupta, Co-founder & CEO of Yotta. “Yotta aims to accelerate innovation and transform industries across India, delivering the power of NVIDIA GPUs as a service to drive growth, efficiency, and excellence. This collaborative work represents a significant milestone in our journey, and we are excited about the endless possibilities it holds for our customers and India as a whole. We are also thankful for the continuing support of the Ministry of Information Technology and the governments of Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh for making this a reality.”
