Nvidia A100 Release

As the engine of the nvidia data center platform a100 can efficiently scale to thousands of gpus or with nvidia multi instance gpu mig technology be partitioned into seven gpu instances to.

Nvidia a100 release. Alibaba cloud aws baidu cloud google cloud microsoft azure oracle and tencent cloud are planning to offer a100 based services. Machine learning and hpc applications can never get too much compute performance at a good price. The launch was originally scheduled for march 24 but was delayed by the pandemic. It is named after french mathematician and physicist andré marie ampère.

The nvidia a100 tensor core gpu delivers unprecedented acceleration at every scale for ai data analytics and high performance computing hpc to tackle the world s toughest computing challenges. Nvidia announced the next generation geforce 30 series consumer gpus at a geforce special event on september 1 2020. Nvidia ga100 full gpu with 128 sms a100 tensor core gpu has 108 sms. It is available immediately from nvidia and approved partners.

In some officially released ml perf benchmarks that hit the web yesterday nvidia announced record breaking ai. The nvidia dgx tm a100 system firmware update container is the preferred method for updating firmware on dgx a100 system. Ampere is the codename for a graphics processing unit gpu microarchitecture developed by nvidia as the successor to both the volta and turing architectures officially announced on may 14 2020. Gtc 2020 nvidia today announced that the first gpu based on the nvidia ampere architecture the nvidia a100 is in full production and shipping to customers worldwide.

The new bare metal instance gpu4 8 features eight nvidia a100 tensor core gpus with 40 gb of memory each all interconnected via nvidia nvlink. Nvidia egx converged accelerators are the latest products to join the nvidia egx platform a family of hardware and software products that deliver enhanced security and real time ai from the data center to the edge the egx platform comprises an easy to deploy cloud native software stack a range of certified servers and devices a hybrid cloud platform for deployment and a vast ecosystem of. The cpu on board has 64 physical cores of amd rome processors running at 2 9 ghz supported by 2 048 gb of ram and 24 tb of nvme storage. It provides an easy method for updating the firmware to the latest released versions and uses the standard method for running docker containers.

Today we re excited to introduce the accelerator optimized vm a2 family on google compute engine based on the nvidia ampere a100 tensor core gpu with up to 16 gpus in a single vm a2 vms are the first a100 based offering in the public cloud and are available now via our private alpha.