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OCF pairs with Clarifai to strengthen its AI offering

Posted on July 20, 2021 by - News

HPC outfit OCF  has teamed up with Clarifai to support its increased investment in AI and enhanced AI compute power.

For those who came in late, Clarifai’s deep learning AI platform uses machine learning to understand unstructured image, video, text and audio data. Data scientists, developers and researchers working with OCF will, it is claimed, benefit from the easy integration of Clarifai’s AI platform to identify and analyse images, videos and text significantly faster.

OCF Sales Director Andrew Dean said: “OCF has been supplying infrastructure for AI and machine learning for a number of years. Clarifai’s comprehensive software platform and pre-trained AI models will integrate with this infrastructure, enabling our customers to develop powerful AI applications using image analysis and natural language processing (NLP), whatever their business or research requirements.

OCF partners with RONIN

Posted on May 21, 2021 by - News

OCF, a high-performance compute (HPC), storage, cloud and AI integrator, has partnered with the cloudy RONIN to provide its customers with an  application to support and ease the adoption of HPC cloud services in research institutions.

RONIN’s web application allows researchers to launch complex compute resources, while helping to control usage, scheduling and budget management.

The pair are members of the AWS Partner Network (APN), OCF and RONIN will together be able to help research computing take advantage of the benefits of public cloud. Using RONIN, researchers can spin-up environments as needed for short term requirements or assess the usefulness of advancements in co-processors or software frameworks without the onus of large capital expenditure or long lead times.  It also supports those organisations taking their first steps in AI and machine learning, giving them easy access to the latest GPU technology.

Graphcore launches new partner programme

Posted on September 25, 2020 by - News

Graphcore has unveiled its first global channel partner programme.

The new Elite Partner Program consists of a network of distributors and resellers that will work to fulfill demand for Graphcore’s AI compute platform, the IPU-M2000, and IPU-POD for scale-out and supercomputing deployments.

In a statement the outfit said the go-to-market programme’s scale and reach reflect the momentum that its Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU) has built up so far and there is high demand around the world for its recently-announced second-gen IPU systems.

Graphcore CEO Nigel Toon said: “The Graphcore Elite Partner Programme allows us to serve commercial, academic and governmental customers around the world, through some of the most trusted names in the information technology supply chain.”

Nvidia gives Elite Partner status to OCF

Posted on June 9, 2017 by - News

datacenter_server_678_678x452OCF has been awarded lite Partner status with Nvidia for its Accelerated Computing antics.

This makes the outfit only the second business partner in Northern Europe to achieve this level.

Nvidia’s Elite Partner level is only awarded to partners that have the knowledge and skills to support the integration of GPUs, as well as the industry reach to support and attract the right companies and customers using accelerators.

OCF has been a business partner with Nvidia for over a decade and has designed, built, installed and supported a number of systems throughout the UK that include GPUs. Most recently, OCF designed, integrated and configured ‘Blue Crystal 4’, an HPC system at the University of Bristol, which includes 32 nodes with two Nvidia Tesla P100 GPUs accelerators each.

OCF has supplied two IBM Power Systems S822LC for HPC systems, codenamed ‘Minsky’, to Queen Mary University of London.

The two systems, which pair a POWER8 CPU with four Nvidia Tesla P100 GPU accelerators, are being used to aid world-leading scientific research projects as well as teaching, making QMUL one of the first universities in Britain to use these powerful deep learning machines. The university was also the first in Europe to deploy an Nvidia DGX-1 system, described as the world’s first AI supercomputer in a box.