Real-world AI has revolutionized and changed how people live during the past decade, including media and entertainment, healthcare and life science, retail, automotive, finance service, manufacturing, and oil and gas. Speaking to a smart home device, browsing social media with recommended content, or taking a ride with a self-driving vehicle is no longer in the future. With the ease of your smartphone, you can now deposit checks without going to the bank? All of these advances have been made possible through new AI breakthroughs in software and hardware.
At Microsoft, we host our deep learning inferencing, cognitive science, and our applied AI services on the NC series instances. The learnings and advancements made in these areas with regard to our infrastructure are helping drive the design decisions for the next generation of NC system. Because of our approach, our Azure customers are able to benefit from our internal learnings.
We are pleased to announce that the next generation of NC A100 v4 series is now available for preview. These virtual machines (VMs) come equipped with NVIDIA A100 80GB Tensor Core PCIe GPUs and 3rd Gen AMD EPYC™ Milan processors. These new offerings improve the performance and cost-effectiveness of a variety of GPU performance-bound real-world AI training and inferencing workloads. These workloads cover object detection, video processing, image classification, speech recognition, recommender, autonomous driving reinforcement learning, oil and gas reservoir simulation, finance document parsing, web inferencing, and more.
The NC A100 v4-series offers three classes of VM ranging from one to four NVIDIA A100 80GB PCIe Tensor Core GPUs. It is more cost-effective than ever before, while still giving customers the options and flexibility they need for their workloads.
Size | vCPU |
Memory (GB) |
GPUs (NVIDIA A100 80 GB Tensor Core) |
Azure Network (Gbps) |
Standard_NC24ads_A100_v4 | 24 | 220 | 1 | 20 |
Standard_NC48ads_A100_v4 | 48 | 440 | 2 | 40 |
Standard_NC96ads_A100_v4 | 96 | 880 | 4 | 80 |
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