Acer Group subsidiary ” Altos Computing Inc.” launched the Altos aiWorks solution which is an Artificial Intelligence Computing Platform, with “shared resources”, “simplified process”, and “rapid development” as the core missions.
It’s combining Altos BrainSphereTM series of computing system products (including servers, PC workstations, etc.), and Altos Accelerator Resource Manager (AARM) smart accelerator computing resource management system, in addition to providing customers and developers with different artificial intelligence computing system choices, rapid deployment of a development environment, and optimization of artificial intelligence accelerator resource allocation.
Altos Computing Inc. deeply investigates its R&D on artificial intelligence computing platform technology. Based on excellent software and hardware solution “Altos aiWorks”, Altos Computing fastest launches and announces the supports for NVIDIA A100 Multi-Instance GPU (MIG) technology.
MIG allows each A100 GPU to be divided into up to seven instances. Whether it is high-bandwidth memory, cache, and computing core, they are all independent; GPUs have multiple cutting forms, which can not only withstand workloads of any scale, but also ensure the quality of work services (QoS ), which can also accelerate the scalability of computing resources, and maximize the utilization rate.
Besides, for Volta and Turing series GPUs, Altos aiWorks also supports NVIDIA CUDA Multi-Process Service (MPS) technology to improve GPU utilization.
Altos Accelerator Resource Manager(AARM) adopting container technology manages AI accelerators and system resources. AARM also introduces Altos’s own patented algorithm technology to optimize GPU resource and automate the deployment of functions, which greatly reduces the complexity and barrier for users to deploy workload and application for deep learning and machine learning development.
Besides, AARM allows individual developers to quickly deploy independent workspaces and development environments on the system, allowing multiple users to share hardware resources while still maintaining independent development environments without mutual influence, which helps developers focus more on the research and development of artificial intelligence applications.
Altos Computing Inc focuses on high-speed computing and integrated solutions. On 18th
November (Taipei Time) officially released Altos BrainSphereTM P555 F5 high-end workstation, which will be on the market in the first quarter of next year, the first wave of global limited three hundred units.
Specification of Altos BrainSphereTM P555 F5 with AMD EPYCTM 7002 series CPU, support four high-level GPUs at the same time and equipped with liquid cooling to drop the temperature for CPU and GPUs.
It not only solves the overheating problem associated with high efficiency, but also greatly reduces the huge noise caused by the system fan when it dissipates heat.
Acer also announced the Altos BrainSphereTM P15 F7 PC workstation, which is the first PC workstation equipped with AMD’s latest Ryzen 5000 series CPUs. It greatly improves the
computing performance of the system and meets the needs of users with high workloads and a large number of system configurations.
Altos General Manager Jackie CC Lee said: “Between general commercial computers and high-endworkstations, there is still a market. Its main industrial applications rely on the long-term operation and high-management computer mainframe support, such as the securities industry.
The multi-screen display computer workstations, terminal workstations in the banking industry, factory production line workstations and hospital medical workstations, etc.,
can support high availability, high performance, high configuration flexibility, and high manageability to meet the performance requirements of various applications.
At the same time, it is necessary to take into account customer budgets.” With the gradual development and popularization of AI and ML, companies are responding to the wave of digital transformation, and the demand for computers with AI accelerators (such as GPU graphics processors) has also increased rapidly. This type of computer products are collectively referred to as “PC workstation.
