Northern Data Group is first in Europe to acquire NVIDIA H200 GPUs

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Northern Data Group is first in Europe to acquire NVIDIA H200 GPUs

01.07.2024 / 09:00 CET/CEST
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Northern Data Group is first in Europe to acquire NVIDIA H200 GPUs

  * First in Europe to acquire NVIDIA H200 GPUs - currently the most
    powerful GPUs on the market

  * The deployment further expands the Group's Generative AI CSP offering,
    already the largest in Europe

  * Further demonstration of the Group's continued commitment to providing
    best-in-class technologies

Frankfurt/Main - 01 July 2024 - Northern Data Group (Ticker symbol German
stock market: NB2, ISIN: DE000A0SMU87), a leading provider of
High-Performance Computing (HPC) solutions, today announces it has purchased
NVIDIA H200 GPUs through a newly established partnership with Supermicro, a
global leader in Application-Optimized Total IT Solutions.

Northern Data Group's cloud platform, Taiga Cloud will be the first Cloud
Service Provider (CSP) in Europe to offer access to the H200 GPU hardware,
with delivery and deployment scheduled for Q4 2024. The partnership with
Supermicro for the NVIDIA H200 GPUs will further build its HPC solutions and
complement its existing offering of best-in-class GenAI technologies.

This purchase of the H200 GPUs demonstrates Northern Data Group's commitment
to offering the best-in-class technology to its customers, as it continues
to expand its cloud solutions offering, while also maintaining its position
as Europe's first and largest dedicated Generative AI Cloud Service
Provider.

The first full island of over 2,000 NVIDIA H200 GPUs utilizing BlueField-3
data processing units (DPUs) and NVIDIA Mellanox CX7 NICs, to deliver 32
petaFLOPS of performance. The configuration of NVIDIA-referenced
architecture allows customers to access more bandwidth, faster, and more
efficient data storage access. The H200 GPUs will be housed in one of
Northern Data Group's European data centers, powered by carbon-free,
renewable energy and boast a Power Usage Effectiveness ratio of less than
1.2.

Aroosh Thillainathan, Founder and CEO, Northern Data Group, commented:

"Our GenAI platform is constantly evolving and we are proud to collaborate
with Supermicro to be the first in Europe to offer access to NVIDIA H200
GPUs. This is testament to our commitment to continually offer
industry-leading, next-generation solutions. As an Elite Partner of NVIDIA,
we are proud to continue to offer cutting-edge technology, deployed in line
with recommended architecture references to maximize the technology."

Vik Malyala, President & Managing Director, EMEA; SVP, Technology & AI,
Supermicro, commented:

"We are excited to collaborate with Northern Data Group to expand its GenAI
Cloud offering to include Supermicro GPU servers based on latest Nvidia H200
HGX GPUs. Supermicro is fully committed to delivering most performant and
energy efficient AI infrastructure and solutions, and this collaboration
will accelerate availability and bring the best value for customers in
Europe."

About Northern Data Group:

Northern Data Group (ETR: NB2) is a leading provider of High-Performance
Computing (HPC) solutions to businesses and research institutions, utilizing
GPU- and ASIC-based solutions. Our flexible compute power fuels innovation
in our three core business platforms: Taiga Cloud, Ardent Data Centers, and
Peak Mining. Through our HPC solutions, we pioneer ambitious computing
innovation that drives progress in the AI, ML and Generative AI industries.
Our close collaboration with industry-leading manufacturers including
Gigabyte, AMD, and NVIDIA is fundamental to the acceleration of innovation
across sectors including life sciences, financial services, and energy.

About Taiga Cloud:

Taiga Cloud, a Northern Data Group platform, is Europe's first and largest
Generative AI Cloud Service Provider. We provide a flexible, secure and
compliant cloud-based ultra-fast GPU Network, engineered to meet
organizations' most ambitious compute needs. Taiga Cloud recognizes that
high-intensity, large-scale processing power is crucial for accelerating
Generative AI models and research which will deliver a new era of
technological breakthroughs. Taiga's energy-efficient Cloud is powered by
Europe's largest cluster of NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core and H100 Tensor Core
GPUs, helping enable organizations to accelerate AI and ML innovation on
demand, with technology that is fully scalable.

Investor Relations:

Jens-Philipp Briemle
Head of Investor Relations
An der Welle 3
60322 Frankfurt am Main
E-Mail: jens-philipp.briemle@northerndata.de
Telefon: +49 171 557 6989

Media enquiries:

TEAM LEWIS
Email: NorthernDataUKPR@teamlewis.com


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   Language:       English
   Company:        Northern Data AG
                   An der Welle 3
                   60322 Frankfurt/Main
                   Germany
   Phone:          +49 69 34 87 52 25
   E-mail:         info@northerndata.de
   Internet:       www.northerndata.de
   ISIN:           DE000A0SMU87
   WKN:            A0SMU8
   Listed:         Regulated Unofficial Market in Berlin, Dusseldorf,
                   Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hanover, Munich (m:access),
                   Stuttgart, Tradegate Exchange
   EQS News ID:    1934837

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