GDT Launches AI Lab with Production-Grade Testing Environment to Validate AI Projects

Supercomputer-Class Lab Is Cornerstone of GDT's AI Factory Center of Excellence Enabling Accelerated AI Delivery

DALLAS, Oct. 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Global technology solutions provider GDT today announced the launch of its AI Lab and AI Factory Center of Excellence (COE) at company headquarters in Dallas. The lab features a full-stack AI factory powered by Cisco and running the NVIDIA Enterprise Platform, making GDT one of the few IT services companies to give customers a production-grade AI proving ground to develop and test use cases on real infrastructure before investing in or receiving production equipment.

The lab's AI testbed consists of a Cisco UCS C885A M8 server integrated with NVIDIA HGX H200, six Cisco Nexus switches, a NetApp all-flash storage array, and 100G, 200G and 400G network connectivity. The platform provides roughly 38 terabytes per second of aggregate memory speed, which is enough to read the entire Library of Congress in about half a second.

Testing use cases in this environment helps customers reduce deployment risk, accelerate AI implementation, improve confidence in infrastructure decisions, and shorten the path to production workloads, time to first token, and time to monetization. Customers with AI equipment on order can also use the waiting period productively and arrive at production deployment with more of the use case, design and integration work complete.

Beyond the lab environment, GDT's AI Factory COE provides the expertise, services and support needed to help customers move validated AI initiatives into production. GDT architects, integrates, stages, deploys and operationalizes the full AI factory solution for customers, drawing on a large team of dedicated AI presales personnel, certified AI infrastructure architects, and over 100 architects focused on data center technologies.

"Our customers are under pressure to rapidly support AI deployment, but need to balance the issues of security, governance and token cost management. The AI factory architecture, created by NVIDIA and supported by our technology partners, lets customers balance these factors to maximize benefits and minimize implementation risk," said Shawn O'Grady, chair and chief executive officer, GDT. "GDT is one of the leading companies in this exciting space, and the addition of a live and fully functioning AI factory in our lab facility gives customers a chance to see, test and experience the benefits prior to roll out."

GDT customers can use the lab to:

• Develop, run, fine-tune and compare generative AI and large language model workloads on live GPU hardware
• Apply retrieval-augmented generation to their own data in a controlled environment
• Explore AI agents, copilots, computer vision and real-time inference use cases
• Perform benchmark training and inference performance to inform infrastructure sizing and investment decisions
• Build proofs of concept and work through requirements, architecture data, and infrastructure dependencies before production equipment arrives

GDT marked the AI Lab and AI Factory COE launch with a ribbon-cutting event in Dallas on October 22, bringing together customers, partners, GDT leadership, and teammates.

About GDT

GDT is a global technology solutions provider specializing in data center, networking and AI infrastructure, delivering secure AI-ready, carrier-grade platforms and services to customers in more than 100 countries. In addition to multiple offices in the U.S., the company has a Bangalore Global Operations Center in India that provides strategic engineering and delivery services to clients ranging from global financial institutions and manufacturers to large healthcare systems, telecom operators and enterprise organizations. GDT has been helping organizations modernize and scale their IT environments to support innovation, resilience, and growth for over 30 years. https://gdt.com

SOURCE GDT