Google to use AMD's GPU to accelerate machine learning services

Computer processor maker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) announced that Google will start using its compute accelerators on its cloud platform. Google plans to start rolling out the AMD hardware in 2017. It will use AMD's single-precision dual GPU compute accelerators, Radeon-based AMD FirePro S9300 x2 Server GPUs, to help accelerate Google Compute Engine and Google Cloud Machine Learning services. The GPUs can handle highly parallel calculations, including complex medical and financial simulations, seismic and subsurface exploration, machine learning, video rendering and transcoding, and scientific analysis. "Google is building up its GPU-based infrastructure, and they want to ensure they offer AMD's architecture," said Raja Koduri, senior vice president and chief architect at AMD, in an interview with Forbes.