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AHEAD designs, installs, and supports custom NVIDIA AI infrastructure across cloud, core, and edge, ensuring successful deployment and operations throughout your AI production journey.

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CASE STUDY

Learn more about how AHEAD is helping UPenn design and deploy NVIDIA® DGX SuperPOD™ as part of the new Penn Advanced Research Computing Center initiative.

AHEAD + NVIDIA BY THE NUMBERS

Data engineers

Data scientists

Integration engineers

Architects

Consultants

NVIDIA AI Advisors, Sales & Technical Sales

AHEAD’S NVIDIA COMPETENCIES AND SPECIALIZATIONS

NVIDIA AI
DGX® SuperPod™ Specialized
Compute
DGX AI Compute Systems
DGX Cloud
Networking
NVIDIA Virtual Desktops
NVIDIA Omniverse®
Visualization

FULL-STACK NVIDIA DGX SUPERPOD™ INFRASTRUCTURE EXPERTISE

AHEAD specializes in building and integrating NVIDIA DGX SuperPODs by leveraging our advanced engineering capabilities, Foundry™ facilities for pre-deployment configuration and rack integration, and best-of-breed industry ecosystem to optimize time to value. Together, we can accelerate your AI and HPC initiatives at scale.

Hardware Design & Engineering

AHEAD integration specialists develop scalable AI data center solutions using NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD infrastructure to provide a solid foundation for AI/HPC workloads. Turnkey solutions feature NVIDIA DGX GB200, B200, and H200 GPUs, specific networking hardware such as NVIDIA Quantum InfiniBand and NVIDIA Spectrum™ Ethernet, NVIDIA AI Enterprise software suite and NVIDIA Base Command™, and certified storage systems such as Dell PowerScale, VAST, Pure Storage, and WEKA. AHEAD Hatch® IT Intelligence Platform tracks all design documentation, components, and asset lifecycles for simplified IT infrastructure management.

Full-Stack Integration Facilities

AHEAD Foundry rack integration facilities reduce the time and complexity of deploying NVIDIA DGX SuperPODs. Our end-to-end services include logical build, configuration, testing, and validation to eliminate deployment delays or on-site surprises. As NVIDIA continues to move the needle with technology to support the density demands of modern AI/HPC applications, AHEAD’s liquid cooling integration facility will support NVIDIA Grace Blackwell architecture and future generations of NVIDIA AI technology.

End-to-End Ecosystem Alignment

AHEAD integrations go beyond NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD racks and across the stack to achieve a complete data center solution. With AHEAD’s strategic partnerships, we ensure smooth physical integrations with networking, storage, infrastructure management, and other critical components of a NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD deployment. In addition, platform integrations such as observability, MLOps, and more provide a holistic solution. Once deployed, AHEAD managed services can be tapped for full ongoing platform operations. To maintain platform consumption and expansion, AHEAD data scientists and data engineers offer critical use case development and data-readiness services, and more.

Enter a new world of innovation with the AHEAD Lab, where IT teams have a hands-on opportunity to work with bleeding-edge technologies side-by-side with AHEAD specialty engineers. Benchmark NVIDIA DGX SuperPODs for fit and function and find the right configuration for your needs, beginning Summer 2025.

We chose to partner with AHEAD to bring large-scale compute to our faculty and students. A core requirement was scalability to ensure the technology could evolve with future research demands. AHEAD designed and integrated a multi-rack NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD solution, built on a foundation of NVIDIA’s software ecosystem that will scale alongside PARCC. What would've normally required multiple years, together PARCC and AHEAD are accomplishing design and build-out on an accelerated timeline of less than one year. After working with this team, I think three words that describe AHEAD are collaborative, holistic, and efficient.

Ken Chaney

Associate Director of AI & Technology

WHY AHEAD FOR NVIDIA?

Advise

Strategic advisory services expertly tailored to guide your AI transformation

We help clients accelerate their AI initiatives through infrastructure modernization and frameworks for AI strategy, governance, and security policies that ensure robust and secure AI deployments.
From cloud to core to edge, we combine leading hardware and software providers to support various training and inference use cases for your models.
Create and execute innovative AI use cases for your industry and business goals. AHEAD platform and data engineers work in tandem to help you enable the successful adoption and implementation of your custom infrastructure.

Transform

Outcome-oriented services to accelerate impact, built on industry-leading platforms with AHEAD IP

We build advanced compute platforms utilizing NVIDIA DGX AI Compute Systems and DGX Cloud to provide powerful, scalable, and flexible environments for AI workloads.
We deploy large-scale edge AI solutions with zero-touch edge management orchestration and ruggedized edge devices for environments with unique requirements.
We construct AI infrastructure using NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD architecture, which includes logical build, testing, validation, and integration with scheduling tools.

Operate

AHEAD offers full AI infrastructure management capabilities, from design to migration to XaaS

AHEAD Foundry offers integration and management capabilities of customized data center and network infrastructure, engineered racks, and edge hardware for complex and distributed environments.
We leverage NVIDIA’s high-performance networking solutions such as InfiniBand and NVLink for efficient GPU-to-GPU communication.
We offer advanced AI management capabilities, such as managing the large and critical ecosystems of NVIDIA’s DGX SuperPOD post-implementation.

AHEAD INDUSTRY SOLUTIONS FOR NVIDIA ACCELERATED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Healthcare/Life Sciences

AI-driven diagnostics
AI Medical Imaging
Accelerated Genomics

Financial Services

Fraud Detection
Customer Service
Machine-Learned Trading

Manufacturing

Predictive Maintenance
Quality Control

Retail

Customer Behavior Analysis
Loss Prevention

Energy & Utilities

Renewable Energy Generation
Industrial Digital Twins

Industrial Edge

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Document Summarization
Edge Computer Vision and LVM

GET AHEAD OF YOUR COMPETITION

Hatch® IT Lifecycle Management Software

As AI rapidly transforms infrastructure requirements, diligent lifecycle management of IT assets is crucial. The AHEAD Hatch IT Lifecycle Management Platform optimizes lifecycle operations by identifying aging assets as well as component versions (such as NVIDIA GPUs), enabling IT teams to methodically plan necessary replacements or interim upgrades to handle current and future loads.

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Rack Scale Design, Integration, and Deployment with AHEAD Foundry™

Edge AI specialty engineers leverage NVIDIA SDKs and pre-trained models with hardware building block platforms to accelerate AI application development from months to weeks.

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Cloud & Data Engineering

Our 50+ data engineers and 25+ architects optimize cloud and data storage architecture for AI, allowing you to build hybrid AI applications that span both the NVIDIA ecosystem, on premises hardware, and into hyperscaler clouds that can leverage NVIDIA services.