SK Telecom launches new sovereign GPU cluster

SK Telecom said Tuesday it launched its Sovereign GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) platform on Friday, featuring the latest NVIDIA Blackwell B200 graphics processing units (GPUs). The newly introduced GPUaaS cluster, Haein, connects more than 1,000 of NVIDIA’s B200 artificial intelligence (AI) chips in a single array, making it one of the largest and highest-performance GPUaaS in Korea. GPUaaS is a cloud-based service that provides GPU infrastructure for large-scale AI model training and reasoning. “This marks a major upgrade over last December’s H100-based GPUaaS and is expected to significantly contribute to strengthening Korea’s AI infrastructure,” the company said in a press release. “SK Telecom has built this B200 GPU cluster at Gasan AI data center (AIDC), aiming to resolve the GPU supply crunch in Korea and establish itself as a market leader in AIDC.” Haein has been selected for the Ministry of Science and ICT’s project to rent GPUs and will be used in developing the country’s national AI foundation models. To launch this GPUaaS, the company partnered with Penguin SolutWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times