- Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOGL) (NASDAQ: GOOG) has partnered with NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA) in a cloud computing deal. These are the details.
Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOGL) (NASDAQ: GOOG) has partnered with NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA) in a cloud computing deal. NVIDIA released the A100 Tensor Core graphics processing unit a few weeks ago and it is going to be used by Alphabet subsidiary Google Cloud.
The introduction of the Accelerator-Optimized VM (A2) instance family featuring the A100 makes Google the first cloud service provider to offer the new NVIDIA GPU. The A100 boosts training and inference computing performance by 20 times over its predecessors thus providing tremendous speedups for workloads to power the AI revolution.
“Google Cloud customers often look to us to provide the latest hardware and software services to help them drive innovation on AI and scientific computing workloads, ” said Manish Sainani, director of Product Management at Google Cloud. “With our new A2 VM family, we are proud to be the first major cloud provider to market NVIDIA A100 GPUs, just as we were with NVIDIA T4 GPUs. We are excited to see what our customers will do with these new capabilities.”
Ian Buck, VP / General Manager, Tesla Data Center Business – NVIDIA, noted in a company blog post that the A100 is able to power a broad range of compute-intensive applications, including artificial intelligence training and inference, data analytics, scientific computing, genomics, edge video analytics, 5G services, etc. And critical industries will be able to accelerate discoveries with the strong performance of the A100 on Google Compute Engine.
Soon Google will roll out access to more instances with the NVIDIA A100 coming to Google Kubernetes Engine, Cloud AI Platform, and more Google Cloud services.
“For large, demanding workloads, Google Compute Engine offers customers the a2-megagpu-16g instance, which comes with 16 A100 GPUs, offering a total of 640GB of GPU memory and 1.3TB of system memory — all connected through NVSwitch with up to 9.6TB/s of aggregate bandwidth,” added Buck.
