Microsoft announces new powerful and scalable virtual machines that integrate the latest NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs.
When Microsoft and OpenAI partnered in 2019, the two companies sought to bring supercomputing resources designed and dedicated to allow OpenAI to train an expanding suite of increasingly powerful AI models. OpenAI needed an unprecedented cloud-computing infrastructure, larger than anyone in the industry had attempted to build before. Over time that has evolved, with Microsoft announcing on March 13, 2023, new powerful and scalable virtual machines that integrate the latest NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs and NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking to continue tackling this monumental task.
„Co-designing supercomputers with Azure has been crucial for scaling our demanding AI training needs, making our research and alignment work on systems like ChatGPT possible,“ stated Greg Brockman, President and Co-Founder of OpenAI.
The ND H100 v5 Virtual Machine (VM) enables on-demand scaling in sizes ranging from eight to thousands of NVIDIA H100 GPUs interconnected by NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking.
