Cloud infrastructure company Vultr announced a four-way strategic collaboration with Juniper Networks, Broadcom and AMD. As part of this agreement, Vultr will expand its Chicago cloud data center region – located at Centersquare’s Lisle, Illinois location – featuring an AMD GPU supercompute cluster that is powered by ROCm open software and a best-of-breed ecosystem of AI infrastructure collaborators.
Designed for enterprise and cloud-scale environments, Broadcom’s ethernet network adapters extend secure data center connectivity, high-performance compute clusters and intelligent flow processing for AI training and inference. Meanwhile, Juniper’s AI-optimized ethernet products deliver secure, high-performance networking with simplified operations, from data center to cloud edge. By combining Broadcom ethernet technologies, Juniper networking and Vultr cloud infrastructure, customers can harness the power of the new AMD Instinct MI300X GPUs and ROCm open software for global AI training and inference workloads.
“Open ecosystems are the foundation of innovation,” said J.J. Kardwell, Vultr’s CEO. “Our collaboration with AMD, Broadcom and Juniper Networks empowers enterprises and AI innovators to harness the full potential of accelerated computing with the highest levels of flexibility, scalability, interoperability and security.”
“As enterprises look to expand AI investments in 2025, they need high-performance, scalable, sustainable cloud GPU infrastructure,” said Negin Oliver, corporate VP of business development, data center GPU business unit, AMD. “AMD is proud to collaborate with Broadcom, Juniper and Vultr to bring state-of-the art AMD Instinct MI300X GPUs and ROCm software stack to Vultr’s composable cloud infrastructure to power enterprise’s AI development and deployment.”
The news follows Vultr’s extended collaboration with AMD to make the new Instinct MI300X accelerators and ROCm open software available within Vultr’s composable cloud infrastructure. Collaborating with Broadcom and Juniper is regarded as the next step in creating an open ecosystem, powered by ROCm, to unlock new frontiers of GPU-accelerated workloads from the data center to the edge.
“Ethernet has become the de facto technology for backend networks in large-scale AI deployments. Broadcom’s leading switch silicon and network adapters are accelerating such networks to ever higher performance,” said Ram Velaga, SVP and GM, core switching group, Broadcom. “We are proud to work with AMD, Juniper and Vultr to power this supercompute cluster based on open Ethernet networking.”
“High-performance connectivity is critical for operational efficiency of AI,” said Praveen Jain, SVP and GM, data center and AI, Juniper. “We were the first OEM to deliver 800G switches. Furthermore, Juniper is committed to open, AI-optimized, Ethernet solutions, with capabilities like advanced load balancing and automated congestion control for optimal AI workload performance. Through our collaboration with AMD, Broadcom and Vultr, we’re building the robust network infrastructure that will fuel the AI breakthroughs of tomorrow.”
