Azure Daily 2022 by Gordon

Accelerate your AI applications with Azure NC A100 v4 virtual machines

Microsoft is 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 EPYCâ„¢ 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.

Figure 1: ResNet50 results were generated using NC24s_v3 and NC96ads_A100_v4 virtual machine sizes.

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