NVIDIA and Microsoft have embarked on a multi-year collaboration to build one of the most powerful AI supercomputers in the world. The machine will be powered by Microsoft Azure’s advanced supercomputing infrastructure combined with NVIDIA GPUs, networking and full stack of AI software to help enterprises train, deploy and scale AI, including large, state-of-the-art models.
► Aim is to advance AI training and deep learning applications
► First large-scale deployment of GPUs created for use in AI
The cloud-based AI supercomputer will include NVIDIA’s powerful and scalable ND- and NC-series virtual machines, optimised for AI distributed training and inference. This will be the first public cloud to incorporate NVIDIA’s advanced AI stack, adding tens of thousands of NVIDIA A100 and H100 GPUs, NVIDIA Quantum-2 400Gb/s InfiniBand networking and the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software suite to the platform.
As part of the collaboration, NVIDIA will use Azure’s scalable virtual machine instances to research and further accelerate advances in generative AI, a rapidly emerging area of AI in which foundational models like Megatron Turing NLG 530B are the basis for unsupervised, self-learning algorithms to create new text, code, digital images, video or audio.
The companies will also work together on Microsoft’s DeepSpeed deep learning optimisation software. NVIDIA’s full stack of AI workflows and software development kits, tuned to work with Azure, will be made available to Azure enterprise customers.
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