Verification across 1,272 GPUs presented at the Korea–U.S. science conference… meeting with NVIDIA co-founder Malachowsky
Joint demonstrations sought with U.S. universities and research institutes… 5.5 billion won from the Hancom MDC project, 6.7 billion won national R&D project
ACRYL(아크릴), an AX infrastructure software company led by CEO Park Woe-jin, said on August 19 that it is entering the North American AI infrastructure market with its GPU operations platform GPUBASE.
At the 39th U.S.-Korea Conference on Science, Technology and Entrepreneurship (UKC 2026), held August 5–8 in Orlando, Florida, ACRYL was the only Korean company on the panel of the official Korea–U.S. AI symposium and delivered the anchor presentation at an official sponsor forum.
GPUBASE pools GPUs and NPUs from different manufacturers into a single resource pool. It partitions a single GPU so that multiple jobs can share it and reduces network bottlenecks, raising the performance actually realized from equipment already purchased. Rather than buying more hardware, it lets an operator use what it has bought. Demand for GPU operations and efficiency software is growing alongside the wave of large AI data center construction in Korea and abroad.
Targeting U.S. universities and research institutes… HiPerGator visit and local demonstration talks
During the conference ACRYL visited HiPerGator, the supercomputing facility of the University of Florida, to discuss cooperation with its operations team, and held a roundtable with SelectFlorida, the state economic development organization. HPC operations cooperation, local demonstration projects, site selection and incentives were on the agenda.
On the morning of August 7, immediately after the plenary session, the company met NVIDIA co-founder Chris A. Malachowsky, who spoke at the session, and introduced ACRYL and GPUBASE. In the North American market for GPU operations software, ACRYL is targeting heterogeneous accelerator environments rather than single-vendor ones and Ethernet-based clusters rather than InfiniBand, with universities and public research institutes as its first target.
Samseog Ko(고삼석), distinguished chair professor at Dongguk University and a member of the National AI Strategy Committee, who delivered the forum keynote on co-evolution, said "the center of gravity in AI competition is shifting from securing models to operating compute resources," adding that "Korean software companies verifying technology alongside the operating problems of U.S. universities and research institutes is a realistic path into the local market."
ACRYL executives met NVIDIA co-founder Chris A. Malachowsky at UKC 2026 on August 7. Photo: ACRYL
1,272 GPUs verified… utilization above 90%, training time cut by up to 96%
The evidence ACRYL presented in North America is the K-Scale Evaluation completed in the first half of this year. Across three global clouds with different network architectures, 1,272 GPUs spanning seven heterogeneous types were verified independently in each environment: GPU utilization rose above 90%, training time under heavy load fell by up to 96%, and job queue wait time by up to 93%. The company plans a single-cluster performance test at 1,000 GPUs as its next step, targeting a KOLAS-accredited test report.
Cost figures were presented as the company’s own estimates. On a basis ACRYL derived from published research and commercial cases, network total cost of ownership for a cluster of 512 NVIDIA H100 GPUs is 48% lower than with InfiniBand, or about US$2.2 million (about 3.0 billion won). Raising average GPU utilization from about 55% to about 85% also cuts the GPU purchase cost required for the same throughput by roughly 35%, according to the company.
5.5 billion won supplied to the Hancom MDC project… expansion with Megazone Cloud
Commercial supply continues in Korea. In July, ACRYL signed a contract to supply GPUBASE to a modular data center (MDC) project led by Hancom(한컴). A 3.3 billion won (about US$2.4 million) advanced-tier contract added on July 29 brought cumulative supply for the project to 5.5 billion won (about US$4.0 million). The advanced tier runs on NVIDIA H200 NVL GPU servers with direct liquid cooling (DLC) racks, with delivery to be completed in the third quarter. In July the company also signed an agreement with Megazone Cloud(메가존클라우드) to extend into large AI data centers and distributed AI infrastructure.
Technology development is backed by a national R&D project. In June, ACRYL was selected as the lead institution for a project funded by the Institute of Information & Communications Technology Planning & Evaluation (IITP) to develop an Ethernet-based GPU cluster network fabric. Totaling about 6.7 billion won (5.5 billion won in government funding), it runs through December 2028 with Yonsei University, Sungkyunkwan University and Ajou University, and aims to replace InfiniBand, NVIDIA’s proprietary network technology, with open Ethernet.
"Competition in AI infrastructure is shifting from how many GPUs a company has secured to how efficiently and reliably it operates the compute it already owns," said Park Woe-jin, CEO of ACRYL. "We will build joint demonstrations and business partnerships around the operating problems that universities, research institutes and data centers in North America actually face."
■ About ACRYL Inc.(아크릴)
Founded in March 2011, ACRYL is an AX (AI transformation) infrastructure software company. It began in emotion recognition and natural language processing and now supplies industry-specific AI models together with the infrastructure software that runs them. The company listed on KOSDAQ(코스닥) through the technology special listing track in December 2025.
Its main products are the GPU operations platform GPUBASE; Jonathan, an integrated AI platform combining GPUBASE with ModelBase and AgentBase; ALLM, a family of industry-specific foundation models; and NADIA, a healthcare AI solution. GPUBASE pools heterogeneous accelerators into a single resource pool and handles GPU partitioning and sharing, job scheduling and network optimization; it is deployed in projects including the Hancom MDC build-out.
CEO Park Woe-jin · 704 Seolleung-ro, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, Korea · +82-2-557-4958 · info@acryl.ai · www.acryl.ai
[Reference] Key figures
※ Won–dollar figures converted at 1,390 won to the dollar (August 2026). Cost savings are ACRYL’s own estimates.
Media contact Jerry Yang, General Manager, ACRYL · +82-10-9949-0296 · jerry2@acryl.ai | Photos and presentation materials available on request