Lenovo has provided local neocloud Sharon AI with a 1,000-GPU NVIDIA B200 cluster at NextDC’s M3 data centre, labelling it its “largest-ever” TruScale infrastructure-as-a-service engagement.
The cluster is expected to provide Australian and Asia Pacific (APAC) enterprises, government organisations, and research institutions access to “world-class accelerated computing”, according to Lenovo.
Specifically optimised for massive-scale workloads, the cluster uses NVIDIA’s DGX Blackwell architecture featuring eight Blackwell GPUs interconnected via a fifth generation NVLink, delivering up to three times the training performance and 15 times the inference performance in comparison to previous generation systems.
Lenovo said the rollout was an example of how its TruScale offering — providing fully integrated solutions as-a-service on a pay-as-you-go model — enables flexible and rapid infrastructure expansion.
Sharon AI combines the vendor’s high-density server engineering with high-performance storage fabric from Vast Data to offer a unified develop-to-deploy pipeline that Lenovo said removes traditional bottlenecks in the AI lifecycle.
The neocloud’s CEO and co-founder, James Manning, stated the deployment marks a major milestone for sovereign AI capability in Australia.