Intelligent Data Centres Issue 06 | Page 54

Goonhilly opens new data centre with green HPC platform S atellite communications innovator and space gateway Goonhilly Earth Station has opened its new data centre and flexed its eco credentials by launching a managed green HPC platform for AI and ML compute on demand. requirements of 500KW and local wind power will be added to the mix shortly. demand, customers can reduce the cost of deployment and accelerate time to market. Goonhilly’s goal is to create a UK hub for AI and ML services that acts as a marketplace and allows academia and enterprise to collaborate and share ideas. Further extending its AI capabilities, Goonhilly has joined the NVIDIA Inception programme for businesses that are transforming industries through advancements in AI and data sciences. The new managed platform delivers high performance GPU-based compute and storage for decentralised and centralised AI and Machine Learning applications to meet the data-intensive needs of the automotive, life sciences and space/ aerospace marketplaces. Its onsite array of solar panels can also support the data centre’s full power By provisioning both compute and AI and Machine Learning resources on Goonhilly will use the NVIDIA DGX-1, the world’s first supercomputer purpose-built for enterprise AI and Deep Learning. Because Goonhilly’s tier 3/4 data centre sits at the junction of global subsea cables, satellite feeds and fibre, customers can analyse data at the edge, eliminating the cost of a leased line to send huge data One of the first organisations in the UK to deploy a liquid immersion cooling system from Submer to mitigate the power demands of high performance computing (HPC), Goonhilly’s green platform is designed to meet the data-intensive needs of the automotive, life sciences and space/ aerospace marketplaces. 54 Issue 06 www.intelligentdatacentres.com