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How likely is it that one of AWS / GCP / Azure will deploy these? Nvidia has some relationships there for the A100 chips.
by t0mas88 5y ago
How likely is it that one of AWS / GCP / Azure will deploy these? Nvidia has some relationships there for the A100 chips.
- ksec 5y agoAWS has their own CPU. Microsoft is an investor in Ampere, but I am not sure if they will make one themselves or simply buy from Ampere. Google has responded with faster x86 instances, still no hint of their own ARM CPU. But judging from the past I dont think they are going to go with Nvidia. That is only the CPU though, they might deploy it as Grace + Hopper config.
- ciphol 5y agoWith names like that, I assume that was the intention
- KaoruAoiShiho 5y agoPretty sure they all will, they all already have the past gens of these things and it's a simple upgrade.
- lmeyerov 5y agoAWS+Azure (and I believe GCP) installed prev advances, and are having huge GPU shortages in general... so probably! An interesting angle here is these support partitioning even better than in the A100's. AFAICT, the cloud vendors are not yet providing partitioned access, so everyone just exhausts worldwide g4dn capacity for smaller jobs / devs / etc. But partitioning can solve that...
- qbasic_forever 5y agoAmazon has at least two generations of their own homebrew ARM chip, the Graviton. They offer it for people to rent and use in AWS, and publicly stated they are rapidly transitioning their internal services to use it too. In my experience Graviton 2 is much cheaper than x86 for typical web workloads--I've seen costs cut by 20-40% with it.
- devmunchies 5y ago> their own homebrew ARM chip are they going through TSMC like NVIDIA or are they using Samsung?