ATAD Expands GPU Leasing Business Using Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure

At a glance

ATAD said it will extend its virtual data center technology to Alibaba Cloud's global infrastructure and push into GPU (graphics processing unit) leasing and brokerage. The plan pools idle computing resources and supplies them to companies that need GPUs for AI work.

Key points

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   Idle computing resources are combined into one pool and rented to companies that need GPUs.

2. 2

   Alibaba Cloud serves as the cloud provider supplying high-performance computing infrastructure.

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   ATAD plans to use its own eBPF (a technology for watching how systems run) based monitoring to check hardware status in real time.

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   The company also plans to expand into managing and distributing the full lifecycle of hardware such as GPUs.

Why it matters

Rising demand for GPUs driven by AI growth is making shared high-performance computing resources more important.