PanaAI to build Australia's fastest AI supercomputer

AI computing service and operations company PanaAI has announced plans to collaborate with NVIDIA to build the Southern Hemisphere’s fastest AI supercomputer in Australia.

The PanaAI AUS ASIF system is scheduled to come online in the first quarter of next year. It will host up to 4088 NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPUs, interconnected through the NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand platform, giving it a projected theoretical peak performance of 16.4 exaflops in half-precision.

This would make the machine the fastest AI supercomputing cluster in Australia and fastest AI supercomputer south of the equator, with each H200 GPU offering 141 GB of memory and 4.8 Tbps of bandwidth. The PanaAI AUS ASIF would also be one of the 10 most powerful AI supercomputers in the world.

A PanaAI spokesperson said the company is building the supercomputer to provide users with accelerated computing cloud services, AI compute power rentals and subscriptions for large language model training. The goal of the system will be to accelerate research and innovation across fields including health care, energy, financial services, autonomous driving, life sciences and public services.

“To meet the growing demand for generative AI and computing resources, PanaAI is planning to establish multiple world-class, powerful supercomputing systems to provide unparalleled accelerated services to users worldwide,” the spokesperson said. “We highly value our collaboration with NVIDIA to deliver AI cloud services and rapidly train large foundational models built on ever-expanding datasets of images, acoustics, and sensor information. We look forward to closer collaboration to support users around the globe.”

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