Google Expands Its GPU Cloud Options

Google has announced it is offering NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPUs for its HPC and machine learning cloud customers. But how will the company square this with its TPU cloud offering? Google's deployment of the V100 follows that of Amazon, IBM, and Microsoft, who have offered this GPU in their respective clouds for some time. Amazon was the first provider to make it available to cloud customers, when it rolled out its V100 instances in October 2017. The V100 is currently NVIDIA's most advanced accelerator, offering 7.5 teraflops of double precision performance for HPC and 125 teraflops of tensor mixed precision performance for machine learning.