Japanese company promises to slash prices of AI computing in race to deliver the world’s cheapest GPU cloud
Japanese company Third Wave is launching a ‘GPU cloud’ service for anyone who wants to run generative AI workloads – including large language models (LLMs), simulation or computer-aided design (CAD) – from their own PC.
You have the best PCs or best GPUs to use Third Wave’s cloud service, called Raytrek Cloud, where the company indirectly leases the computing resources needed to tap into the power of AI as it gains traction.
The company unveiled its GPU cloud at Dospara Plus Synapse 2023 while confirming that it was focusing its efforts on servers and workstations for AI. This will happen in the form of the cloud service, but also in the development and distribution of such hardware.
Run low-cost AI workloads in the cloud
The company also unveiled the launch of five new products, including the X4630 workstation equipped with a 4th generation Xeon Scalable processor and NVIDIA’s RTX6000 Ada GPU.
This fits with the company’s reorganization of late, rebranding as GALLERIA for its consumer and gaming PCs and Raytrek for its enterprise-oriented hardware.
The launch of Raytrek Cloud, meanwhile, comes as the company recognizes that there is a explosion of available data in the coming years, with sixty times more data now being produced than ten years ago.
Director, senior executive officer and vice president of Third Wave Akiya Ida added that cloud-enabled data centers have created energy consumption issues, with future AI systems likely to run both outside the cloud and on-premises.
With Raytrek Cloud, companies can access a remote workstation through a Desktop as a Service (DaaS) offering for tasks such as CAD or Building Information Modeling (BIM). There is also the option to leverage the GPU service to run AI workloads, including for generative AI and simulations that require high-performance computing.
The company ultimately wants to be the cheapest AI cloud service provider with a monthly fee that is half to a third lower than large cloud companies. PC watch. It’s also pay-as-you-go, so it can be used on an hourly basis or in small increments.