AiHPC’s open AI healthcare platform sparks cross-innovation and collaboration

Accelerating AI-powered healthcare research

AiHPC provides AI solutions that connect medical R&D ecosystems. With help from Equinix data centers and connectivity solutions, the company achieved a 22x increase in data transfer rates, helping to accelerate research and collaboration.

An essential link in medical research

Hong Kong-based solutions provider AiHPC develops AI systems that enhance diagnostics, streamline workflows and accelerate medical research through advanced analytics. The company’s Orchestration AI (OrchAI) platform enables the regional medical community to collaborate, share AI data and models, and deliver R&D breakthroughs using high-performance computing (HPC) and low-latency networks.

However, using traditional infrastructure, OrchAI struggled with data transfer bottlenecks, infrastructure scalability limitations and security consistency across different environments. It needed seamless, low-latency connectivity and robust infrastructure to enable high-performance computing, data orchestration and data manipulation.

Transforming connectivity 

OrchAI demanded exceptional infrastructure for its cutting-edge technologies. To enable the platform to deliver AI workloads using NVIDIA GPU clusters and HPC processors, manage AI workloads on Kubernetes and enable fast storage with NVMe, AiHPC turned to Equinix AI-ready data centers and flexible networks.

Equinix global data centers now host OrchAI’s mission-critical HPC resources and support its computing resource allocation system to optimize utilization and avoid bottlenecks. Each data center also acts as an interconnection hub, allowing AiHPC to build low-latency connections with Equinix Internet Access and Equinix Fabric® to accelerate network speed while maintaining flexibility to manage cost and performance. Additionally, these private connections facilitate the secure exchange of sensitive healthcare data.

To support AiHPC’s hybrid and multicloud strategy, Equinix interconnects OrchAI with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to enable flexible and simplified network management, empowering agile industry collaboration within the OrchAI ecosystem.

Enabling ongoing innovation

With help from Equinix, AiHPC is able to accelerate its mission of advancing innovation in the medical industry. Data transfer speeds and latency issues are no longer bottlenecks in the R&D process, and the company’s AI solutions can deliver maximum impact on innovation capabilities across the company’s partner network.

Benefits

Massive AI inference boost

Low-latency networks significantly enhance data transfer speeds, accelerating OrchAI’s performance 22 times. By enabling large datasets to move efficiently across hybrid cloud infrastructure, AiHPC improves AI inference operations, utilizing pretrained AI models to reduce training within the on-premises infrastructure. 

Enhanced security and streamlined compliance

AiHPC builds multilayered security through physical security, private interconnections, comprehensive encryption and multifactor authentication with Equinix- certified data centers and networks. These measures also help AiHPC reduce the compliance burden by documenting regulated data flow, addressing data sovereignty requirements and simplifying security management.

Rapid network deployment

Optimized, agile digital infrastructure allows AiHPC to deploy and configure network environments much faster to support its hybrid environment, multicloud strategy and future expansion. 

Global ecosystem expansion

Leveraging secure connections through Equinix, AiHPC creates dedicated links with partner institutions, facilitating secure and robust healthcare data exchange. This enables AiHPC to promote global collaborative AI utilization while upholding stringent data governance and setting future standards for secure data exchange within the ecosystem.