AI Computing Platform "aiWorks Solution" – A promising prospect from Acer for servers and workstations in India

ACER, one of the leading global technology brands, has announced the launch of "aiWorks solution" - an Artificial Intelligence Computing Platform in India. Acer’s all-new “aiWorks Solution” is essentially an Artificial Intelligence Computing Platform that offers a streamlined and cost-effective integrated solution for servers, workstations, networks, and storage. At its core, Acer aiWorks is an amalgamation of Altos BrainSphere™ series of computing system products (including servers, PC workstations, etc.), and Acer Altos Accelerator Resource Manager (AARM) smart accelerator computing resource management system. aiWorks offers artificial intelligence computing system choices, rapid deployment of a development environment, & optimization of artificial intelligence accelerator resource allocation.
 

The aiWorks Solution is expected to offer a robust, resilient, and reliable IT infrastructure making it one of the keystones of a successful business. It isn’t a hidden fact that the increased dynamism and ever-growing consumer demands have resulted in a greater workload than ever before. 
 

Acer Altos server and workstation solutions are therefore being brought to India, complete with a reliable AI platform that will not only help meet the consumer demand but will also help businesses be future-ready.
 

The Acer aiWorks supports NVIDIA A100 Multi-Instance GPU (MIG) technology, wherein MIG allows each A100 GPU to be divided into up to seven instances. Whether it is high-bandwidth memory, cache, and computing core, they are all independent; GPUs have multiple cutting forms, which can not only withstand workloads of any scale, but also ensure the quality of work services (QoS), which can also accelerate the scalability of computing resources, and maximize utilization rate. Besides, for Volta and Turing series GPUs, the Acer aiWorks solution also supports NVIDIA CUDA Multi-Process Service (MPS) technology to improve GPU utilization. 
 

Acer Altos Accelerator Resource Manager（AARM）adopts the container technology that manages AI accelerators and system resources. AARM also brings about Altos's own patented algorithm technology to optimize GPU resources and automate the deployment of functions, which greatly reduces the complexity and barrier for users to deploy workload and application for deep learning and machine learning development. 
 

Besides, AARM allows individual developers to quickly deploy independent workspaces and development environments on the system, allowing multiple users to share hardware resources while still maintaining independent development environments without mutual influence, which helps developers focus more on the research and development of artificial intelligence applications.