Pure Storage Airi Mini enables any AI initiative

Powered by Pure Storage FlashBlade and Nvidia DGX-1, This software and hardware solution offers organizations the data-centric infrastructure needed to harness the potential of Artificial Intelligence..

Pure Storage Airi Mini has been announced, its second infrastructure ready for Artificial Intelligence operational with technology Nvidia.

Created by Pure Storage and Nvidia, Airi has been designed so that architects, Data scientists and entrepreneurs deploy the power of the Nvidia DGX-1 system. With Airi Mini, the organizations, of all sizes and budgets, can implement a simple and powerful solution that allows them to achieve a competitive advantage thanks to Artificial Intelligence, with a price that is affordable for virtually any company in any sector.

Artificial Intelligence offers organizations an opportunity to improve their functioning, Provide a better customer experience and drive business performance through data-driven initiatives.

According to a recent study by the MIT Technology Review, he 82% of companies and IT managers believe that AI can have a positive impact on their sector. Airi Mini allows organizations to access and scale this technology easily, as your initiatives in this field grow.

“While Airi simplifies AI for infrastructure of any scale, “Airi Mini offers a powerful and affordable starting point for organizations to explore and scale as they advance the field of AI.”, says Matt Burr, general director of FlashBlade in Pure Storage.

Designed as a fully integrated software and hardware solution by Pure Storage and Nvidia, Airi Mini provides a simple architecture, but powerful, offering organizations the data-centric infrastructure needed to harness the potential of AI.

Airi Mini works with a Pure Storage FlashBlade, the reference storage platform in the sector, Designed for modern analytics and Artificial Intelligence, configured with 7 blades 17 TB and two Nvidia DGX-1 servers providing two Petaflops of deep learning performance.

These systems are interconnected with switches 100 Carry, Supporting GPUDirect RDMA technology for maximum distributed training performance. Airi leverages Nvidia GPU Cloud deep learning software stack, for maximum GPU performance, and Pure Storage's Airi Scaling Toolkit, optimized for multi-node training with DGX-1 and FlashBlade. With this integrated stack, Data scientists can launch their AI initiatives in hours, instead of taking weeks or months.

Pure has also announced that both Airi and Airi Mini are available with Pure's Ethernet switches. 100 Gb Nexus9000 of Cisco. The thousands of customers of Cisco and Pure can now enjoy the additional solutions that both companies offer jointly if they launch new AI initiatives.

Airi and Airi Mini are the first purpose-built converged infrastructures for AI, enabling data architects and scientists to provide insight into concepts at scale.. As organizations generate and store an increasing amount of data, it is more important for innovators to realize value, knowledge and impact of this data, to make your companies smarter.