South Korea’s Innogrid Builds GPU-Virtualized AI Analytics Environment for Korea SMEs and Startups Agency — BigGo Finance

South Korean cloud infrastructure company Innogrid has built an AI analytics environment for the Korea SMEs and Startups Agency, integrating the agency’s existing virtualization environment and graphics processing units (GPUs) into a unified management framework. The strategy goes beyond simple GPU expansion, implementing a structure that extends existing IT infrastructure to AI workloads, directly targeting AI infrastructure transition demand in the corporate and public sectors.

Innogrid announced on the 1st that it has completed the “GPU-based AI Big Data Analytics Infrastructure” project for the Korea SMEs and Startups Agency, built on its proprietary private cloud platform “Openstackit” and cloud management platform “TabCloudit.”

The core of this project was converting the analytics environment of the SME Big Data Platform (SIMS), operated by the Korea SMEs and Startups Agency, from a closed on-premises, physical PC-centric structure to a cloud-based resource system. Notably, the project satisfied the requirement for adopting South Korean-made virtualization software certified by the National Intelligence Service’s security functionality verification, while also establishing the high-performance GPU computing environment needed for developing advanced analytics models.

Converting GPUs into Virtualized Resources

The most noteworthy aspect of this deployment is the design enabling GPUs to be utilized as virtualized resources. AI big data analytics can be performed on…