Cirrascale Expands Multi-GPU Cloud Service Offerings

Cirrascale Corporation, a premier developer of server and cloud solutions enabling GPU-driven deep learning infrastructure, has announced the future availability of the IBM Power Systems S822LC for HPC in multiple configurations for its GPU-as-a-Service cloud platform. The configurations will support both the 8-core and 10-core POWER8 CPU and up to four Pascal architecture-based NVIDIA Tesla P100 GPU accelerators using NVIDIA NVLink, a high-speed, energy-efficient bidirectional interconnect. NVIDIA NVLink is embedded at the silicon level and tightly coupled with the CPU. This enables data transmission rates up to 80GB/s bidirectional between CPU and GPU, and 115GB/s between CPU and board memory making it 2.5x faster than competing offerings. The service is differentiated because it offers the industry's most up-to-date, dedicated GPUs as a bare metal offering.