“By shipping the first fully integrated liquid-cooled Dell IR7000 rack with Nvidia GB200 NVL72, we have provided CoreWeave’s enterprise customers with the speed and scalability to accelerate their AI-driven projects. Dell and CoreWeave collaborate and enable enterprises to take advantage of AI,” said Jeff Clark, Dell Vice Chairman and COO.
Dell Technologies’ water-cooled servers and racks will form the backbone of CoreWeave’s expanded cloud services, a rising AI hyperscaler, after the companies announced a strategic partnership on Monday.
The companies said in a joint press release that the partnership was necessary to meet the demand for high-performance cloud environments. Hardware in this deal includes Dell’s liquid-cooled PowerEdge XE9712 servers that connect up to 36 Nvidia Grace CPUs and 72 Nvidia Blackwell GPUs at rack scale.
“The possibilities with AI are endless, and Dell is at the epicenter of this revolution,” Jeff Clark, vice chairman and chief operating officer of Dell Technologies, said in a statement accompanying the announcement. “By shipping the first fully integrated liquid-cooled Dell IR7000 rack with Nvidia GB200 NVL72, we provided CoreWeave’s enterprise customers with the speed and scalability to accelerate their AI-driven projects. Dell and CoreWeave Together, we enable businesses to take advantage of AI.”
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Dell founder, chairman and CEO Michael Dell said in November that the Round Rock, Texas-based company was the “first in the world” to ship the Nvidia GB200 NVL72 to a customer (CoreWeave). He said there is.
“We are excited to offer our liquid-cooled PowerEdge XE9712 to CoreWeave,” Dell wrote. “AI and HPC rockets have been greatly enhanced!”
By leveraging NVLink, 72 GPUs work as one to achieve 25x efficiency over H100 and run trillion-parameter LLM inference 30x faster. These devices are housed within Dell’s IR7000, a 21-inch wide water-cooled integrated rack that can capture nearly 100% of the heat generated to keep the system running.
“We are dedicated to pushing the boundaries of AI development, and when it comes to delivering world-class performance at scale, we are second to none at Dell,” said Brian Venturo, co-founder and chief strategy officer at CoreWeave, in a statement. Technologies is a strategic partner that brings cutting-edge cloud services to market to help customers build the next generation of AI applications.”
Dell’s AI infrastructure will be integrated with CoreWeave’s managed software cloud services, including CoreWeave Kubernetes Service and SUNK, a Slurm-on-Kubernetes integration, the statement said.
According to CoreWeave, the platform offers a combination of high performance, ease of use, security and flexibility. These capabilities, combined with CoreWeave’s Mission Control capabilities, ensure customers have access to massive Nvidia-accelerated computing and system performance.
During its third-quarter earnings call last month, Dell announced that it shipped $2.9 billion in AI servers, resulting in a backlog of AI servers of $4.5 billion. Meanwhile, Dell’s pipeline in Q5 was up more than 50% sequentially, with growth across all customer types.
CoreWeave’s Venturo recently said the company will be first to market with Nvidia’s Blackwell GPUs to meet the “insatiable demand” for its infrastructure and cloud services.
Dell-based CoreWeave clusters deliver up to 1.4 exaFLOPS of AI compute power per rack, enabling up to 4x faster training and 30x faster real-time inference for 1 trillion parameter models compared to previous generation GPUs I’ll make it. This architecture includes 13.5 TB of high-bandwidth, NVLink-attached GPU memory per rack, is optimized for large datasets, and also features liquid cooling to reduce energy consumption and costs. Masu. ”
Just last month, Roseland, New Jersey-based CoreWeave completed a $650 million secondary stock sale that included acquisitions from networking giant Cisco Systems, storage giant Pure Storage, and investment firms BlackRock, Coatue, and Fidelity. Confirmed that it was completed. It comes after securing $7.5 billion in debt financing led by Blackstone and Magnetar earlier this year.
Coreweave was valued at $19 billion in May, the Wall Street Journal and CNBC reported. CoreWeave, which was named to CRN’s list of 10 Cloud Computing Startups to Watch in 2023, has invested millions of dollars in expanding its data center footprint.
