NVIDIA GPU Cloud & Volta News: GPU Cloud To Compete AWS, Volta V100 To Release With 5120 CUDA Cores And 7.5 TFLOPS
In the recently held NVIDIA's GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, California, CEO Jensen Huang announced some of the biggest milestones of the company. The graphic chip manufacturing company has expanded its horizons to form a new era of NVIDIA GPU cloud-based services and by innovating NVIDIA Volta chips with artificial intelligence. The company has taken inspiration from Intel's machine learning efforts.
At the GPU Tech Conference, the company has teased NVIDIA GPU cloud base service that will enter public beta in the third quarter of 2017. The company has decided to run a software stack on PCs, servers, and workstations that will assign workload to local GPUs and NVIDIA Volta V100 hosted in the company's forthcoming cloud. The upcoming GPU cloud-based service is compatible with CNTK, MXNet, Torch, Frameworks, Caffe, Caffe2 and Deep Learning SDK.
It can be said that with the launch of NVIDIA GPU cloud-based services the company will become the direct rival of Amazon Web Service, Google's computing cloud, and Microsoft's Azure. Besides, the company is taking a keen interest in robotics with a simulator platform called Isaac. This will make easier for developers to design and built robots by using NVIDIA GPU cloud and NVIDIA Volta V100.
Besides NVIDIA GPU Cloud-based service, the company has announced a new era in machine learning through NVIDIA Volta V100. The GPU is equipped with 5,120 CUDA cores, 7.5 TFLOPS, 640 Tensor Cores and offers 16MB cache and 16GB HBM2 of RAM. The company is planning to deliver 21.1 billion transistors by using the 12nm FinFET process.
Although the company didn't announce the release date of NVIDIA GPU cloud-based services and NIVIDA Volta V100, but both the GPU technology is going to deliver high computational power to solve the complex neural network problems. The Volta GPUs deep learning is supported by DGX-1 and as reported by CNBC, Intel, the biggest U.S. chipmaker, has yet to introduce a similar service but could do so in the future.