NDv2-Series VMs are now Generally Available
Published date: March 04, 2020
NDv2 GPU VMs for high-end deep learning training and HPC workloads are now generally available in East US, South Cenrtal US, and West Europe.
The NDv2 VMs are the latest, fastest, and most powerful addition to Azure GPU family, and are designed specifically for the most demanding distributed HPC, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML) workloads. These VMs feature 8 NVIDIA Tesla V100 NVLink interconnected GPUs each with 32 GB of HBM2 memory, 40 non-hyperthreaded cores from the Intel Xeon Platinum 8168 processor, and 672 GiB of system memory. NDv2-series virtual machines also now feature 100 Gigabit EDR InfiniBand from Mellanox with support for standard OFED drivers and all MPI types and versions.
NDv2-series virtual machines are ready for the most demanding machine learning models and distributed AI training workloads with out-of-box NCCL2 support for InfiniBand- allowing for easy scale-up to supercomputer-sized clusters that can run workloads utilizing CUDA, including popular ML tools and frameworks.