Delivering on the promise of superior AI for our clients requires supercomputing infrastructure, companies, and experience to handle the exponentially growing measurement and complexity of the newest fashions. At Microsoft, we’re assembly this problem by making use of a decade of expertise in supercomputing and supporting the most important AI coaching workloads to create AI infrastructure able to huge efficiency at scale. The Microsoft Azure cloud, and particularly our graphics processing unit (GPU) accelerated digital machines (VMs), present the inspiration for a lot of generative AI developments from each Microsoft and our clients.
“Co-designing supercomputers with Azure has been crucial for scaling our demanding AI training needs, making our research and alignment work on systems like ChatGPT possible.”—Greg Brockman, President and Co-Founder of OpenAI.
Azure’s strongest and massively scalable AI digital machine collection
Today, Microsoft is introducing the ND H100 v5 VM which allows on-demand in sizes starting from eight to 1000’s of NVIDIA H100 GPUs interconnected by NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking. Customers will see considerably quicker efficiency for AI fashions over our final technology ND A100 v4 VMs with revolutionary applied sciences like:
- 8x NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs interconnected by way of subsequent gen NVSwitch and NVLink 4.0
- 400 Gb/s NVIDIA Quantum-2 CX7 InfiniBand per GPU with 3.2Tb/s per VM in a non-blocking fat-tree community
- NVSwitch and NVLink 4.0 with 3.6TB/s bisectional bandwidth between 8 native GPUs inside every VM
- Intel 4th Generation Xeon Processors, codenamed Sapphire Rapids
- PCIE Gen5 host to GPU interconnect with 64GB/s bandwidth per GPU
- 16 Channels of 4800MHz DDR5 DIMMs
Delivering exascale AI supercomputers to the cloud
Generative AI purposes are quickly evolving and including distinctive worth throughout almost each trade. From reinventing search with a brand new AI-powered Microsoft Bing and Edge to AI-powered help in Microsoft Dynamics 365, AI is quickly turning into a pervasive part of software program and the way we work together with it, and our AI Infrastructure shall be there to pave the best way. With our expertise of delivering multiple-ExaOP supercomputers to Azure clients world wide, clients can belief that they will obtain true supercomputer efficiency with our infrastructure. For Microsoft and organizations like Inflection, NVIDIA, and OpenAI which have dedicated to large-scale deployments, this providing will allow a brand new class of large-scale AI fashions.
“Our deal with conversational AI requires us to develop and prepare a number of the most complicated massive language fashions. Azure’s AI infrastructure offers us with the mandatory efficiency to effectively course of these fashions reliably at an enormous scale. We are thrilled concerning the new VMs on Azure and the elevated efficiency they may convey to our AI growth efforts.”—Mustafa Suleyman, CEO, Inflection.
AI at scale is constructed into Azure’s DNA. Our preliminary investments in massive language mannequin analysis, like Turing, and engineering milestones similar to constructing the primary AI supercomputer within the cloud ready us for the second when generative synthetic intelligence turned doable. Azure companies like Azure Machine Learning make our AI supercomputer accessible to clients for mannequin coaching and Azure OpenAI Service allows clients to faucet into the facility of large-scale generative AI fashions. Scale has all the time been our north star to optimize Azure for AI. We’re now bringing supercomputing capabilities to startups and firms of all sizes, with out requiring the capital for enormous bodily {hardware} or software program investments.
“NVIDIA and Microsoft Azure have collaborated through multiple generations of products to bring leading AI innovations to enterprises around the world. The NDv5 H100 virtual machines will help power a new era of generative AI applications and services.”—Ian Buck, Vice President of hyperscale and high-performance computing at NVIDIA.
Today we’re asserting that ND H100 v5 is out there for preview and can turn into a typical providing within the Azure portfolio, permitting anybody to unlock the potential of AI at Scale within the cloud. Sign as much as request entry to the brand new VMs.