NVIDIA announced Monday that its new artificial intelligence development hub is now available to North American customers after its debut in May.
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NVIDIA said in a statement that the platform “gives enterprises instant access to powerful computing infrastructure wherever their data resides.”
The tool is available for rent with a monthly subscription price of $90,000. There is a three-month minimum for all subscriptions, NVIDIA explained.
Manuvir Das, head of Enterprise Computing at NVIDIA, said the Base Command platform makes it easy for businesses to have immediate access to the power of an NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD to “accelerate the AI lifecycle and data science development.”
The platform gives companies access to NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD through optimized AI workflow software, and the tool is hosted remotely by Equinix. According to a statement from the company, the Base Command Platform is the first hybrid cloud offering supported by NVIDIA and is available through the NVIDIA AI LaunchPad partner program.
The tool is tailored for organizations that have large-scale, multi-user, multi-team AI workflows that want to push AI projects into production.
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NVIDIA announced that Adobe was already using the tool to help researchers and data scientists work “simultaneously on shared accelerated computing resources to accelerate the development of new AI-powered software features and applications.”
The tool is supported by several NVIDIA partner organizations such as NetApp and Equinix, and Weights and Biases, which offers MLOps software for the Base Command platform.
In addition to a cloud-based user interface, the tool comes with a command-line API, built-in monitoring and reporting dashboards to accelerate the AI development lifecycle, integrating a “broad range of AI and data science tools” such as the NVIDIA NGCTM AI catalog and analytics software.
Equinix vice president Steve Steinhilber added that enterprises often struggle to provide the simple yet powerful digital infrastructure that researchers and scientists can effectively share when it comes to artificial intelligence.
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Kim Stevenson, senior vice president and general manager of the core data services group at NetApp, noted that the tool was a cloud-hosted solution for integrated AI deployment with a fully managed AI infrastructure.
“Enterprises want to simplify AI experimentation and simplify workflow management across user groups and jobs,” Stevenson said.
