Google Cloud has begun offering VM rentals with NVIDIA Blackwell B200 GPUs following in the footsteps of Microsoft Azure, which started providing services in November 2024 (AWS has yet to make a move). Google Cloud’s machines, known as A4 VMs, are still in the preview status. Powered by NVIDIA HGX B200 chips, these machines consist of 8 Blackwell GPUs connected via NVLink version 5, coupled with Google’s own Titanium ML architecture to accelerate data transfer between servers.
According to Google, the GPUs in A4 VMs offer 2.25 times the performance compared to the GPUs in the previous A3 High VM machines. Customers looking for maximum power (without budget constraints) can rent A4 VMs to form a Hypercompute Cluster with up to 65,000 machines per cluster. Google is considered a major player in the cloud industry, providing B200 clusters for service.
Source – Google Cloud
TLDR: Google Cloud now offers rentals of A4 VMs equipped with NVIDIA Blackwell B200 GPUs, outperforming previous models and allowing for high-performance computing through Hypercompute Clusters.
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