Akamai: cloud services based on Nvidia GPUs at NAB 2024

The cloud services portfolio of Akamai grows with a new optimized offering based on Nvidia GPUs, an initiative introduced in NAB 2024 with which the company seeks to speed up content processing.

Internal performance testing carried out by Akamai have shown that GPU-based encoding using NVIDIA RTX 4000 renders frames per second (FPS) “25 times faster"than traditional CPU-based encoding and transcoding methods, which represents a significant advance in the way in which streaming service providers face their typical workload challenges. With this initiative, Akamai intends to continue accompanying those broadcasters and production companies that are in a process of transition towards scalable and resilient architectures

The Nvidia RTX 4000 GPU delivers the speed and power efficiency needed to tackle creative, design and engineering workflows for digital content creation, 3D modeling, rendering, inferencing, and video content and streaming. Specific use cases for the media include video transcoding and live video streaming, improving the streaming experience by reducing buffering and even playback, or processing of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) content. In parallel, Akamai emphasizes that this new cloud proposal may also be useful to developers and companies that wish to create applications related to cutting-edge technologies and processes such as generative artificial intelligence and machine learning (Gen AI/ML), he data analysis and scientific calculation; los video games and graphics rendering, and the high performance computing.

Beyond demonstrating the possibilities of this technology based on Nvidia GPUs, Akamai is emphasizing at NAB 2024 on Akamai Connected Cloud, your platform for cloud computing, security and content delivery.