Delivering on the promise of superior AI for our prospects requires supercomputing infrastructure, providers, and experience to deal with the exponentially rising dimension 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 muse for a lot of generative AI developments from each Microsoft and our prospects.
“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 era ND A100 v4 VMs with modern 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
- 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors
- 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 functions are quickly evolving and including distinctive worth throughout practically 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 element of software program and the way we work together with it, and our AI Infrastructure might be there to pave the way in which. With our expertise of delivering multiple-ExaOP supercomputers to Azure prospects world wide, prospects can belief that they’ll 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 concentrate on conversational AI requires us to develop and prepare among the most advanced giant language fashions. Azure’s AI infrastructure gives us with the required efficiency to effectively course of these fashions reliably at an enormous scale. We are thrilled in regards to 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 giant language mannequin analysis, like Turing, and engineering milestones corresponding to constructing the primary AI supercomputer within the cloud ready us for the second when generative synthetic intelligence turned doable. Azure providers like Azure Machine Learning make our AI supercomputer accessible to prospects for mannequin coaching and Azure OpenAI Service allows prospects to faucet into the ability 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 saying that ND H100 v5 is obtainable for preview and can grow to be a regular 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.