Recently, on our Google Cloud blog , we announced that A2 VMs powered by NVIDIA Ampere A100 GPUs with tensor cores were added to the Compute Engine. They enable users to perform machine learning and HPC based on the NVIDIA CUDA architecture, increasing workloads in less time and cost.
In this article, we want to tell you more about what A2 virtual machines are, about their performance and features. And tell our colleagues and partners how we use these machines.
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