Nvidia and Google announced on Tuesday that the great opportunity of new high-performance server processors NVIDIA Ampere A100 and the new virtual machines, Google Compute Engine A2 (able to solve the problem of AI-technology and others that require a lot of computation), will now be available to clients a cloud-based Google this year.
Nvidia (NVDA) and a subsidiary of Google (GOOGL, GOOG) Google on Tuesday announced that just a few weeks after the release of the graphic server processor A100 Tensor Core, it was used cloud Google new virtual machines A2.
Use A100 Tensor Core from Nvidia gives you the opportunity cloud-based Google to offer customers solutions to complex problems that require large computing resources. Complex calculations that previously produced only for local, expensive servers can be on a cloud platform Google at the end of this year, after it completed a test run through a private alpha program.
According to a press release Nvidia “In cloud data centers A100 can work with a wide range of applications that require a large amount of computation, including training artificial intelligence and analysis, data analysis, scientific computing, genomics, advanced video analysis, services of 5G and more.”
Nvidia claims that the A100 can improve computing performance by more than 20 times compared to its predecessors.
“Google Cloud customers often turn to us for all the latest hardware and software services that will help them introduce innovations in the field of artificial intelligence and scientific computing,” said Manish Sainani, Director of product management at Google Cloud. “With our new family of virtual machines A2 we are proud to be the first major cloud provider that has launched the Nvidia A100, as well as graphics processors from Nvidia T4. We are happy to see our clients succeed with these new opportunities.”
The most powerful virtual machine Google Compute Engine A2 provides access to 16 GPUs A100, as well as a 1.3 TB system memory; clients with less demanding needs will be able to buy access to the virtual machines A2 in the small configurations.
According to a press release Google Cloud, “in the near future there will be additional support for NVIDIA A100 for Google Kubernetes Engine, AI Cloud Platform and other Google services Cloud.”
These innovations will give the cloud business Google the ability to offer customers new high performance computing services that can improve the position of Google Cloud Platform in competition with cloud platforms Amazon Web Services (AMZN) and Microsoft Azure (MSFT).
