NVIDIA A100 ND96asr_v4 GPU VMs now available on Azure
The latest NVIDIA A100 GPU enabled Virtual Machine (VM) is now available on Microsoft Azure cloud.
Previously, we wrote about AWS releasing their newest EC2 SKU featuring A100 GPUs.
“The ND A100 v4 VM series starts with a single virtual machine (VM) and eight NVIDIA Ampere architecture-based A100 Tensor Core GPUs, and can scale up to thousands of GPUs in a single cluster with an unprecedented 1.6 Tb/s of interconnect bandwidth per VM delivered via NVIDIA HDR 200Gb/s InfiniBand links: one for each individual GPU. Additionally, every 8-GPU VM features a full complement of third generation NVIDIA NVLink, enabling GPU to GPU connectivity within the VM in excess of 600 gigabytes per second.“
Available in the following regions: East US, West US 2, West Europe, South Central US
| Size | Physical CPU Cores | Host Memory (GB) | GPUs | Local NVMe Temporary Disk | NVIDIA InfiniBand Network |
| ND96asr_v4 | 96 | 900 GB | 8 x 40 GB NVIDIA A100 | 6,500 GB | 8 x 200 Gbps |
Pricing
Retail pricing per month costs $19,853.81 in East US at the time of posting.
Spot pricing per hour costs $10.87 in East US at the time of posting. However, when I ran one for myself, the spot pricing was a minimum of $12.00 per hour to grab available capacity.
More Information
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-announces-general-availability-of-scaleup-scaleout-nvidia-a100-gpu-instances-claims-title-of-fastest-public-cloud-super/
Featured Image: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/a100/
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