Gcore has announced the launch of its first GPU-focused facility in Incheon, South Korea.
The site will be operational from 15 April, and will be equipped with 320 NVIDIA H100 GPUs supported across 40 servers.
In preparation of the launch, Gcore worked with Korean cloud provider NHN Cloud, signing a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the company last year.
Gcore said that NHN Cloud helped to configure a service that reflected the needs of Korean customers, with the cloud provider to support Gcore in the operation of the new facility.
“Korea has tremendous growth potential in AI technologies, including AI semiconductors, systems, and services, and we look forward to helping Korean companies take a leading position in the global AI market by leveraging Gcore’s data centres located within the country’s high-speed telecommunications network, as well as Gcore’s global edge network, which is interconnected with ultra-low latency networks around the world,” said HyunYong Jung, Country Manager of Gcore Korea.
“Through our continued close collaboration with NHN Cloud, which has specialised understanding and experience in the Korean AI market and customers, we will be able to quickly and efficiently respond to the rapidly growing demand for AI in Korea across various sectors, including public institutions, research centres, finance and manufacturing.”
“As the paradigm of the AI infrastructure market in Korea and globally is rapidly changing, NHN Cloud is building the largest GPU cluster in Korea with more than 1,000 NVIDIA H100s in our data centres, including the Gwangju National AI data centre and Pangyo data centre (NCC1),” added DongHoon Kim, CEO of NHN Cloud.
“Gcore is a company with strong and secure cloud and edge AI know-how based on more than 160 PoPs around the world, and by quickly introducing NVIDIA’s latest GPU, the H100, to Korea, we are setting the stage for a new phase in the Korean AI market.”
