CoreWeave, an AI Hyperscaler, has announced its plans to deliver one of the first NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip-enabled AI supercomputers to IBM. This system will be equipped with NVIDIA NVL72 configurations, interconnected through NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking, enhancing communication and data throughput.
IBM plans to use this high-performance supercomputing resource to train the latest iterations of its Granite models. These models represent IBM’s open-source, enterprise-oriented AI suite, developed to achieve advanced performance while prioritizing safety, speed, and cost-efficiency in different enterprise applications.
The supercomputer will be integrated with the IBM Storage Scale System, employing NVMe flash technology to ensure rapid data access and high throughput for AI workloads, data analytics, and other resource-intensive tasks.
“We are thrilled to partner with IBM, a long-time pioneer of innovative technology solutions, to push the boundaries of artificial intelligence,” said Michael Intrator, CoreWeave CEO and co-founder. “This collaboration is a testament to CoreWeave’s ability to deliver some of the world’s most advanced AI cloud solutions and will combine our strengths in engineering and product development. We look forward to deepening our relationship with IBM to drive transformative innovation together.”
Also Read: CoreWeave Launches Two Data Centers in the UK, Boosting AI Infrastructure with NVIDIA“We are excited to work with CoreWeave on state-of-the-art AI hardware and software to unlock new capabilities for future generations of IBM Granite models. CoreWeave’s cutting-edge platform can augment IBM’s organic capabilities to help build advanced, performant, and cost-efficient models for powering enterprise AI applications and agents. In turn, IBM Storage is enabling a new world of possibilities for AI by offering IBM Storage Scale System to enhance CoreWeave’s comprehensive suite of developer-focused AI capabilities. And finally, as part of this collaboration, we will leverage this supercomputer to advance open technologies such as Kubernetes that will power AI computing in a hybrid cloud environment,” said Sriram Raghavan, VP of AI at IBM Research.
As a part of this collaboration, CoreWeave clients will have the opportunity to leverage the IBM Storage platform within CoreWeave’s dedicated infrastructural environments and AI cloud offerings.
