Microsoft Azure Adds A100 GPU Instances for ‘Supercomputer-Class AI‘ in the CloudAI & Surroundings

Microsoft Azure continues to infuse its cloud platform with HPC- and AI-directed technologies. Today the cloud services purveyor announced a new virtual machine family aimed at “supercomputer-class AI,” backed by Nvidia A100 Ampere GPUs, AMD Eypc Rome CPUs, 1.6 Tbps HDR InfiniBand, and PCIe 4.0 connectivity. The NDv4 VM instances are scalable to more than […]