AI is revolutionizing the world we reside in—from the way in which we entertain ourselves, to the services that we eat, to the way in which we take care of our our bodies, and the way we go about our each day work. Organizations are leveraging the ability of AI to rework our lives by accelerating superior product improvements, rising group competitiveness irrespective of their dimension or accessible assets, and immersing us into extra superb, photo-realistic digital worlds in motion pictures and video games.

At Microsoft, our mission is to empower each particular person and each group on the planet to attain extra. With the ability and scalability accessible by Microsoft Azure, we offer the compute instruments and capabilities for all organizations irrespective of their dimension or assets to do extra, quicker. AI is a key software to assist organizations innovate and create new capabilities, uncover new insights and ship superior merchandise and companies. 

At Microsoft, our NC collection digital machines (VMs) permit our prospects and companions entry to virtually limitless AI {hardware} infrastructure with Microsoft instruments and companies in order that they are often productive shortly and extra simply.

Listed here are some examples of what our prospects are doing with the ability of Azure AI:

“As scale complexity of superior node built-in circuits will increase, we’re dedicated to supply our prospects with modern simulation applied sciences to cut back design and signoff cycles. Synopsys PrimeSim Continuum Answer delivers 10 instances quicker simulation with signoff accuracy utilizing Azure’s NC A100 v4 digital machines. The versatile kind issue of NC A100 v4 VMs permit our prospects to decide on one, two, or 4 GPUs to suit the circuit dimension with the anticipated speedup of working on GPU.”—Hany Elhak, Sr. Director, Circuit Simulation Options, Synopsys

“Within the period of enormous language fashions that always require tens to tons of of Petaflops of GPU assets, how can a analysis lab in academia keep aggressive? I believe the reply is in cloud computing. Just lately our technique has been rigorously testing every new thought in a small scale till we have now clear proof that it really works. And as soon as we’re sufficiently assured with it, we will radically scale it up with Azure’s high-end GPU digital machines corresponding to NC A100 v4 geared up with NVIDIA A100 80GB Tensor Core GPUs. This technique has allowed us to turn out to be an energetic participant in analysis areas that have been previously deemed to be just for trade labs.”—Minjoon Web optimization, Assistant Professor and Director of Language and Information Lab, KAIST

“For our MCity initiative, Touchcast leverages cloud-based rendering on Microsoft Azure GPU-optimized digital machines. In our “Metaverse Metropolis”, Touchcast delivers photorealistic 3D environments that convey organizations, workers, and prospects collectively in a brand-new digital world. Better of all, MCity transports any Microsoft Groups consumer into gorgeous and immersive metaverse venues for conferences, shows, workshop classes, procuring experiences, and extra.”—Edo Segal, CEO and Founder, Touchcast

Introducing the brand new NC A100 v4 collection digital machine, now usually accessible

We’re excited to announce that Azure NC A100 v4 collection digital machines are actually usually accessible. These VMs, powered by NVIDIA A100 80GB PCIe Tensor Core GPUs and third Gen AMD EPYC™ processors, enhance the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of quite a lot of GPU performance-bound real-world AI coaching and inferencing workloads. Use the NC A100 v4 collection for workloads like object detection, video processing, picture classification, speech recognition, recommender, autonomous driving reinforcement studying, oil and fuel reservoir simulation, finance doc parsing, internet inferencing, and extra.

For AI coaching workloads, prospects will expertise between 1.5 to three.5 instances the efficiency enhance in comparison with the earlier NC technology (NCv3) with NVIDIA Volta architecture-based GPUs. Comparable efficiency applies to AI Inference workloads.  Furthermore, prospects will expertise between 1.5 to 5 instances efficiency enhance with seven impartial GPU cases on a single A100 GPU by the multi-instance GPU (MIG) function. Prospects will expertise elevated efficiency features with smaller batch sizes.

Elevated GPU VM efficiency cases and extra importantly, higher management over the GPU assets, means our prospects can achieve insights quicker, innovate quicker, and higher make the most of their accessible assets to do extra with much less. This implies firms can diagnose most cancers quicker to save lots of extra lives, present richer, extra reasonable digital worlds for individuals to discover, and speed up discoveries of cures for future potential communicable illnesses.

The NC A100 v4-series provides three lessons of digital machines, starting from one to 4 NVIDIA A100 80GB PCIe Tensor Core GPUs. It’s cheaper than ever earlier than, whereas nonetheless giving prospects the choices and adaptability they want for his or her workloads. We are able to’t wait to see what you’ll construct, analyze, and uncover with the brand new Azure NC A100 v4 platform.

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