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posted by martyb on Thursday May 02 2019, @04:50AM   Printer-friendly
from the AI dept.

Google Cloud has made Nvidia T4 GPUs generally available, making it the first platform to offer them globally as cloud instances.

Nvidia's T4 GPUs, unveiled earlier this year, are aimed at machine learning training and inference, data analytics and graphics workloads. Google first made them available in Brazil, India, Tokyo and Singapore in January; AWS followed up with limited G4 cloud instances in March.

[...] Google already offers the pricey Nvidia V100 GPUs on its platform. In a blog post, Google said the T4 instances offered more affordable machine learning training compared to the V100s.

The instances are now available in three US and Asia regions, one Europe and one South America region, and are all interconnected by a high-speed network.

Price wise, they come in as low as $0.29 (£0.22) per hour per GPU, with "on-demand" instances coming in at $0.95 (£0.72) per hour. Google added that users will be offered discounts for "sustained use."

Source: https://techerati.com/news-hub/nvidia-t4-gpus-now-generally-available-on-google-cloud/.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 02 2019, @04:19PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 02 2019, @04:19PM (#837948)

    I've never looked into it much but supposedly it basically has an extra asic chip optimized to do matrix multiplications over anything else. One way is by multiplying 16 bit floating point values but automatically converting to 32 bit for the final output