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AI First: Revolutionizing High-Performance Computing Design at the Ellendale Data Center

Applied Digital is constructing the 'AI Brain Data Center', a 100MW facility in Ellendale, North Dakota. This center aims to integrate up to seventy thousand H100 class GPUs into a single compute cluster, potentially forming the world's largest supercomputer. The design allows adaptability for various computing needs, making it a significant development in high-performance computing.

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Applied Digital is developing a groundbreaking data center in Ellendale, North Dakota.

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The 'AI Brain Data Center' will potentially host seventy thousand H100 GPUs.

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This facility is designed to meet various high-demand computing needs efficiently.

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In the rapidly evolving high-performance computing (HPC) landscape, a groundbreaking development emerges from Ellendale, North Dakota. This innovation seeks to redefine the benchmarks of computational power and design.

In the AI-First Business Podcast, host Tina Yazdi explores the future of HPC design with Wes Cummings, CEO and Chairman of Applied Digital. The discussion centers on the revolutionary AI Brain data center, a project that heralds a new era in supercomputing.

Applied Digital has embarked on an ambitious project: constructing a 100MW data center in Ellendale, North Dakota, known as the “AI Brain Data Center.” The design of this architectural and technological feat integrates an unprecedented number of GPUs into a single compute cluster. According to Wes Cummings, this design could facilitate around seventy thousand H100 class GPUs operating together, potentially creating the world’s largest supercomputer. While it may be unlikely for one customer to harness the full capacity, the center’s design offers remarkable flexibility to meet various high-demand computing needs, from aerospace simulations to complex urban engineering computations. As Applied Digital forges ahead, the AI Brain Data Center should be a hallmark of technological prowess in the heart of North Dakota, reshaping the future of high-performance computing.

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It's kind of been my, like, my vision is the facility we're building in in Elondale, North Dakota now. It's gonna be a hundred megawatts same building. And it is what I call the AI Brain data center. It's configured and built in such a way or will be built in such a way, but designed in a way that you could actually put all of the GPUs inside of the building on the same compute cluster. So You could get roughly seventy thousand H100 class GPUs on the same cluster. So that would be, you know, far and away the, the largest supercomputer in the world. If you did that, unlikely that we'll have a customer that wants all of them in the same cluster, but it's designed that way.

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Wes Cummings

CEO and Chairman

Applied Digital

Wes Cummings is the CEO and Chairman of Applied Digital. He is leading the company's initiative in developing the 'AI Brain Data Center', a project that integrates a vast number of GPUs into a single compute cluster to create a supercomputer.

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Tina Yazdi

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AI-First Business Podcast

Tina Yazdi is the host of the AI-First Business Podcast. She explores innovations in high-performance computing and other technologies through interviews and discussions with industry leaders.

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