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[L to R]: ResetData CEOs Bass Salah and Marcel Zalloua with the new supercomputer in Melbourne.<\/p>\n
One local AI developer will win $1 million worth of AI compute in a competition announced at the launch of Australia\u2019s fastest AI supercomputer, a ResetData-built system that uses NVIDIA H200 chips to run AI-specific calculations twice as fast as existing supercomputers.<\/p>\n
Built in Melbourne\u2019s CBD with the backing of Centuria Capital Group, the AI-F1 system \u201cmarks Australia\u2019s arrival as a true AI powerhouse,\u201d ResetData joint CEO Bass Salah said in debuting<\/a> a platform built to give governments and businesses access to \u201cAustralia\u2019s AI future\u201d.<\/p>\n Based on thousands of NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core<\/a> graphics processing units (GPUs), the system is Australia\u2019s largest supercomputer built as a cluster of GPUs, whose characteristics are well suited to the massive, parallel number-crunching that efficiently trains<\/a> AI models.<\/p>\n It is Australia\u2019s most powerful \u2018AI Factory<\/a>\u2019 \u2013 an NVIDIA concept that integrates GPUs with the supporting infrastructure to make AI work as efficiently as possible \u2013 and can churn through AI calculations twice as quickly as general-purpose supercomputers like Gadi<\/a> and Setonix<\/a>.<\/p>\n The system was initially designed to support high performance computing (HPC), visualisation and digital twin<\/a> capabilities, but ChatGPT\u2019s emergence in 2022 fundamentally changed its direction, Salah told Information Age.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen ChatGPT came along, we saw that it was a really easy pivot for us to go from that GPU-as-a-service<\/a> infrastructure for simulation, to GPU-as-a-service infrastructure for AI large language model [LLM] tokenisation<\/a>,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n Over the past 12 months, ResetData ramped up partnerships to build \u201cthe whole value chain\u201d of an AI-as-a-service ecosystem \u2013 including a sovereign AI Marketplace<\/a> that Australian developers can use to sell agentic AI tools or other purpose-built AI systems.<\/p>\n Rather than buying AI infrastructure, Salah said, customers \u201ccome to us with problem statements for business use cases\u2026. We had already built all the infrastructure, but the more complex move was about creating a sovereign AI service layer for customers to consume.\u201d<\/p>\n Stimulating Australian AI development<\/p>\n As well as its AI processing grunt, ResetData has positioned AI-F1 as a platform for what Salah called \u201cactual, meaningful impact\u201d to support Australian industry \u2013 and is backing it with a national competition<\/a>, that will run through 30 September.<\/p>\n The top prize, which will be announced at the Sydney SXSW Festival in October, is $1 million worth of usage credits for the AI-F1 system, which will give local developers wide latitude to build and test AI applications on blocks of up to 1,024 NVIDIA H200 GPUs.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat became evident to us is that now we\u2019ve got this capability, how do we actually use it for purpose?\u201d Salah said, ruing<\/a> the dominance of overseas cloud giants and flagging AI-F1\u2019s potential for \u201cactual, meaningful impact\u2026 focused on being a sovereign capability.\u201d<\/p>\n Even as government and businesses both support<\/a> and warn about<\/a> AI guardrails<\/a>, Salah believes surging demand for AI services \u2013 especially autonomous \u2018AI agents\u2019 that are rapidly taking over decision-making \u2013 will reinforce the importance of sovereign AI capabilities.<\/p>\n Innovative Australian AI companies \u201ccan build these AI software solutions in our environment, then deploy them on our infrastructure,\u201d he said, adding that ResetData was poised to increase AI-F1\u2019s compute capacity \u201csignificantly\u201d in the next two years.<\/p>\n Such investments support the increasing focus on AI as a driver for national growth \u2013 a theme of the recent Treasury roundtable<\/a> \u2013 but maintaining that growth will require local operators to compete for resources in a top-heavy industry dominated by big tech giants.<\/p>\n One recent estimate<\/a> found Google, Microsoft, Meta and Amazon have the equivalent of hundreds of thousands of NVIDIA H100 chips \u2013 a lower-powered cousin of the H200 \u2013 and the world\u2019s most powerful<\/a> AI supercomputers are hoovering up the chips at breakneck pace.<\/p>\n Staking out a corner in the global AI ecosystem<\/p>\n AI-F1 isn\u2019t the only new system bolstering Australia\u2019s AI number-crunching capabilities: Monash University this month announced<\/a> a partnership with NVICIA, Dell Technologies and CDC Data Centres to build a university-focused AI supercomputer called MAVERIC.<\/p>\n Designed to support Monash researchers and partners, that system \u2013 due to go live next year \u2013 will use a closed-loop liquid-cooling<\/a> system 300 times more efficient<\/a> than widely-used water cooling<\/a>, while AI-F1 uses liquid-immersion cooling<\/a> that\u2019s over 100 times as efficient.<\/p>\n Scaling, powering and cooling AI data centres remain intractable challenges in a global AI market that is testing the industry\u2019s financial and technological resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[L to R]: ResetData CEOs Bass Salah and Marcel Zalloua with the new supercomputer in Melbourne. 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\nResetData says its supercomputer will be used for \u201cactual, meaningful impact\u201d to support Australian industry. Photo: Supplied<\/p>\n