Google Unveils 1st Public Cloud VMs using Nvidia Ampere A100 Tensor GPUs
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Google today introduced the Accelerator-Optimized VM (A2) instance family on Google Compute Engine based on the NVIDIA Ampere A100 Tensor Core GPU, launched in mid-May. Available in alpha and with up to 16 GPUs, A2 VMs are the first A100-based offering in a public cloud, according to Google. At its launch, Nvidia said the A100, built on the company's new Ampere architecture, delivers the greatest generational leap ever," according to Nvidia, enhancing training and inference computing performance by 20x over its predecessors.
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