PNY Technologies, a global provider of components and solutions for the artificial intelligence and high-performance computing market, has sealed a European distribution agreement with data storage firm NetApp. NetApp and PNY are teaming up to provide customers with systems featuring NVIDIA accelerated AI computing. PNY works with partners across all distribution channels, including wholesalers, workstation system integrators, NVIDIA Partner Network members and value-added resellers. The collaboration with NetApp allows PNY to strengthen its global AI offerings with complete clusters that meet the requirements of high-performance AI. "Companies and organisations of all sizes and across many industries are turning to artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning to solve real-world problems, deliver innovative products and services, and to get an edge in an increasingly competitive marketplace," said Kristian Kerr, channel vice president for EMEA at NetApp. "As organisations increase their use of AI, ML and DL, they face many challenges, including workload scalability and data availability. With PNY, NVIDIA and NetApp, our partners have the support of the very best in the market and can comfortably position themselves in this long-term growth sector of the industry."

It's marketed directly at Chia cryptocurrency plotting, a very high-bandwidth sustained write task. If you want some info on how much data Chia requires, you can find it here. But if your workload involves something similar, such as continuous large-scale backup, video encoding, or anything else that involves writing lots and lots of data, it might also be of interest. The LX3030 is the fastest PCIe 3.0-based sustained writer we've tested and its TBW (TeraBytes that can be Written) ratings are astounding: 27,000TBW per 1TB of NAND. Seagate's scorching fast FireCuda 530 is rated for 1,250TBW per terabyte--a lot of data by normal standards, but shy one zero compared to the PNY's rated durability.