Innovation isn’t a sprint; it’s a relay where partnerships dictate the pace. At Supercomputing 2024, three industry giants — Nvidia Corp., Super Micro Computer Inc. and WekaIO Inc. — unveiled a collaboration aimed at redefining high-performance computing and AI data centers.
“As we continue to see the build-out [of AI data centers], two challenges are happening,” said Nilesh Patel (pictured, second from left), chief product officer of Weka. “One is the power consumption and the power requirement in data centers is growing like crazy. The second thing is now we are getting into influencing space where it’s becoming a token economy. The cost token for dollars, tokens per wattage use and so on … have become our important KPIs. We got together with Nvidia and Supermicro and tried to attack one of the core problems that is becoming the Achilles heel for data center growth, particularly for AI infrastructure.”
Patel, alongside Patrick Chiu(left), senior director …