NEXTY Electronics and GDEP Advance Introduce NVIDIA DGX B200 to GPU Trial Service GAT for the Mobility Industry

NEXTY Electronics Corporation (Head Office: Minato-ku, Tokyo; President and Representative Director: Tsuyoshi Yamada; hereinafter "NEXTY Electronics"), an electronics trading company within the Toyota Tsusho Group, and GDEP Advance Inc. (Headquarters: Chuo-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director and CEO: Tadamichi Iino; hereinafter "GDEP Advance") announced on December 11 that they have introduced the new NVIDIA DGX B200 to GPU Advanced Test drive (hereinafter "GAT"), a GPU trial environment service for the mobility industry that both companies jointly provide. This will further improve AI training efficiency and contribute to accelerating AI development and validation in the mobility industry.

NVIDIA DGX B200 introduced to GAT

Background
In today's mobility industry, AI development has become a critical factor in determining competitiveness, driven by advances in autonomous driving, connected cars, and EVs. However, during the initial stages of AI development planning, there have been cases where it was difficult to conduct sufficient validation and make investment decisions. To address this, NEXTY Electronics and GDEP Advance have been offering GAT, a service that provides trial environments featuring the latest GPUs for the mobility industry, since April 2024.
With GAT being used by many customers at high utilization rates, we are introducing the latest NVIDIA DGX B200 to meet customer needs for higher-performance GPU environments capable of handling increasingly large-scale and complex training data. This will contribute to further improving the efficiency of customers' AI development and validation by shortening training periods and increasing the number of validation cycles.

Overview and Features of NVIDIA DGX B200
The NVIDIA DGX B200 is an AI system equipped with NVIDIA Blackwell Tensor Core GPUs (hereinafter "Blackwell GPUs").
The NVIDIA DGX B200, which features eight Blackwell GPUs interconnected via fifth-generation NVIDIA NVLink, delivers 3x the training performance and 15x the inference performance compared to the previous-generation NVIDIA DGX H100.

NVIDIA DGX B200 Specifications

GAT Service Details
■Video Generation Supporting Multimodal AI (AI for Heterogeneous Data)
・Input multiple modalities such as AI text, LiDAR data, and images to automatically generate videos depicting driving environments and traffic conditions
・Enables rapid construction of the vast and diverse scenarios required for autonomous driving development

■Autonomous Driving Simulation Support
・Highly accurate simulation utilizing multimodal inputs (sensor information + environmental conditions + map data)
・Safely reproduces difficult or rare cases that are challenging to test with actual vehicles, improving development reliability

■Development Support Through Proprietary Reinforcement Learning Tools
・Leverages diverse environmental data to optimize vehicle control algorithms and route selection through reinforcement learning
・Utilizes the computational power of NVIDIA DGX B200 to achieve large-scale trial and error in a short timeframe

■End-to-End Support from PoC to Development
・Both companies collaborate to provide end-to-end support from initial validation through system implementation
・NEXTY Electronics: System development support in the mobility domain, customer interface
・GDEP Advance: Provision of NVIDIA systems including NVIDIA DGX B200, GPU optimization design and operational support

Comment from Tadamichi Iino, Representative Director and CEO of GDEP Advance
"Robotics technology is evolving at a rapid pace as we head toward the era of physical AI. Mobility and physical AI are closely connected in achieving autonomous mobility systems and smart cities.
GAT offers the latest GPU PoC environments tailored to specific applications, and by providing not just bare-metal hardware but a platform that includes the application layer, we will continue to support developers with a trial environment specialized for mobility."

Comment from Mikio Takano, Executive Officer / Chief Unit Officer of Business Development Unit, NEXTY Electronics
"I am very pleased that we have been able to further advance AI development environments in the mobility industry through the introduction of the NVIDIA DGX B200 system. This enables us to handle complex and large-scale training tasks, contributing to improved development efficiency.
Additionally, by combining this with NEXTY Electronics' strengths in AI development support and tool provision, we can now offer comprehensive support covering not only hardware but also the application layer, enabling us to assist customers with their AI development in a more practical and rapid manner. We will continue to combine the technical capabilities of both companies to contribute to technological innovation in the mobility field."

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■ About NEXTY Electronics
Company name: NEXTY Electronics Corporation
Address: Shinagawa Front Building, 2-3-13, Konan, Minato-ku, Tokyo
NEXTY Electronics, an electronics trading company within the Toyota Tsusho Group, boasts top-of-class scale in the automotive industry. By actively deploying cutting-edge technologies such as autonomous driving into other industries, NEXTY Electronics focuses on technologies and commercial products that meet customer and social needs in a variety of areas while also helping to provide solutions to the challenges faced by society. NEXTY Electronics also offers optimum solutions that transcend regions and business sectors by leveraging the Toyota Tsusho Group's global network.
Visit the link below for more information.
NEXTY Electronics Official Website: https://www.nexty-ele.com/en/

■About GDEP Advance Inc.
GDEP Advance Inc. is an AI and visualization solution provider with the mission of "Advance with you." It comprehensively provides the means to move work and research forward in all forms including on-premises, rental, and cloud, from provision and construction to operational support of accelerators including GPGPUs, high-end workstations, cluster systems using high-bandwidth networks and high-speed storage, as well as operational tools such as libraries, compilers, and job schedulers. The company operates as an Elite Partner in NVIDIA's NPN (NVIDIA Partner Network).
About GDEP Advance Inc. (Japanese Only): https://www.gdep.co.jp/

■Contact for Product and Service Inquiries
GDEP Advance Inc. Solutions Division E-mail: sales@gdep.co.jp

■Contact for media inquiries
NEXTY Electronics Corporation
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Phone: 03-5462-9666