Containerized data centers help avoid many pitfalls in AI deployments

AI hardware manufacturers are increasingly consolidating computing power. The result is that a very compact IT infrastructure can deliver impressive performance. HPE and Contour Advanced Systems have opted for hardware deployment in a familiar format: the container. During a visit to the Contour facility in the Dutch city of Varsseveld, we learn what the benefits are.

Today’s software must be “composable.” In other words: scalable and flexible. Hardware (and specifically the data centers that house it) face challenges that require a similar approach. In addition to sensitive issues such as land and power shortages, the typical construction of a traditional data center involves a delivery time of about three years, sometimes much longer. HPE and Contour believe they can deploy a site three times faster using their modular approach.

Parallelization

The similarity between software development, on the one hand, and hardware development, on the other…