GPU-Accelerated Microsoft Azure

Powered by NVIDIA Tesla P100 GPUs and NVIDIA's NVLink high speed multi-GPU interconnect technology, the HGX-1 comes as AI workloads – from autonomous driving and personalized healthcare to superhuman voice recognition -- are taking off in the cloud. The HGX-1 architecture provides unprecedented configurability and performance. Powered by eight NVIDIA Tesla P100 GPUs in each chassis, it features an innovative switching design – based on NVIDIA NVLink interconnect technology and the PCIe standard – enabling a CPU to dynamically connect to any number of GPUs. This allows cloud service providers that standardize on a single HGX-1 infrastructure to offer customers a range of CPU and GPU machine instance configurations to meet virtually any workload. The HGX-1 Hyperscale GPU Accelerator reference design is highly modular, allowing it to be configured in a variety of ways to optimize performance for different workloads.