SNS Network Technology Bhd is collaborating with Nvidia Corp to launch a fully managed, local artificial intelligence (AI) cloud infrastructure service hosted in Malaysia to support local and regional enterprises, government bodies, and academia across industries.
Located at Telekom Malaysia Bhd’s Klang Valley Data Centre in Cyberjaya, the infrastructure is powered by 64 Nvidia Hopper graphic processing units (GPU) across eight Dell PowerEdge XE9680 servers (AI factory), with Nvidia Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking and Nvidia AI Enterprise software.
“By providing high-performance computing through GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS), SNS Network is offering an AI Factory to accelerate AI adoption among enterprises in Malaysia and foster AI industry growth and talent development through training programmes and Proof of Concept (POC).
“The AI Factory will dedicate 50% of its accelerated computing capacity for commercial workloads while reserving the remaining 50% for activities aimed at fostering AI growth including POCs, industry training, bootcamps and hackathons,” SNS Network said in a statement.
Its Managing Director Ko Yun Hung said the GPUaaS AI factory features local hosting, which provides data sovereignty and compliance with Malaysia’s data privacy and security regulations.
“The scalable service offering gives technology developers access to cutting-edge AI infrastructure without the intensive capital expenditure and allows flexibility to technology developers to scale their computing needs on demand.
“More crucially for the growth of the AI industry in the country, SNS Network’s AI factory ecosystem aligns with Malaysia’s aspirations to foster innovation, talent growth and ethical AI development through training programmes, enterprise AI projects and the community bootcamps and hackathons,” Ko added.
He stressed that the initiative will democratise access to AI infrastructure, allowing enterprises and institutions to harness AI’s full potential.
