Stefan Mileschin

Tweaked for AI and Cloud

At Microsoft Ignite, Microsoft announced an expansion of its NVIDIA GPU capabilities, offering for the first time a powerful addition to its lineup that features 8 Nvidia Tesla V100 Tensor core GPUs interconnected via Nvidia NVLink GPUs to use for compute-intensive AI projects.

Corey Sanders Corporate Vice President, Azure, announced the preview of two new N-series Virtual Machines with Nvidia GPU capabilities.

"GPUs are ideal for compute and graphics-intensive workloads, and they have been helping you innovate through scenarios like high-end remote visualisation, artificial intelligence, and predictive analytics", he said.

A new version of the NV-series designed to support remote visualisation workloads and other graphics-intensive applications. The new NVv2 VMs will feature Nvidia GRID technology and Tesla M60 GPUs, up to 448GiB of RAM, and will support Premium SSDs. The NVv2 VMs are in preview now in US West, US South Central, and Europe West.

NDv2 VMs which will be previewed by the end of the year, is a new addition to the ND-series, NDv2 VMs focus on DL training and inferencing as well as machine learning. The new NDv2 will feature eight Tesla V100 Tensor core GPUs interconnected via NVLink GPUs and 40 Intel Skylake cores aimed to deliver high-quality results even faster.

https://fudzilla.com/news/ai/47256-m...u-capabilities