WhiteFiber has launched WhiteFiber Continuum, a cross-data-centre networking solution and distributed graphics processing unit (GPU) supercluster architecture.
It connects geographically separated data centres into one logical GPU supercluster.
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The system allows organisations to pool AI computing resources across locations rather than rely on capacity at one campus.
WhiteFiber Continuum connects two health information trust alliance (HITRUST)-certified quality technology services (QTS) facilities located 83km apart.
The sites are linked through 12 Zayo dark fibre strands and use DriveNets AI Fabric alongside WEKA NeuralMesh AI data storage and memory infrastructure.
The architecture provides 136 terabits per second (tbps) of bandwidth and a guaranteed round-trip latency of 0.9 milliseconds. The company has submitted patent applications covering the implementation behind the system.
WhiteFiber CEO Sam Tabar said: “WhiteFiber Continuum is the infrastructure answer to a problem the industry has lived with for years: geographic distance as a ceiling on what a cluster can do.
“Today we are making it commercially available to enterprises that need AI compute to perform at scale, hold up under compliance requirements, and not break when a single site has a problem.
“This is the foundation for a new class of AI infrastructure, and we are ready to build it with our customers.”
WhiteFiber’s approach could allow telecom and metro facilities with available power and fibre capacity to contribute to one GPU cluster.
The company said enterprises could add training or inference capacity across sites without building a separate greenfield deployment.
The design is intended to support sensitive workloads within their originating jurisdiction while allowing pooled computing and failover between locations.
It is designed to enable training runs to continue if one site becomes unavailable, rather than pause until that location is restored.
DriveNets supplied the network fabric used to connect the facilities, while WEKA provided the storage and memory infrastructure across the cluster. Both companies remain part of the commercial offering.
Last month, WhiteFiber signed a definitive agreement to acquire two industrial properties in Yadkin County, North Carolina, US, and transform them into data centre campuses.
