Google Cloud Platform Now Packs Nvidia GPUs For Powering Deep Learning Algorithms

Google has made access to Nvidia graphics cards available on its Compute Engine and Cloud Machine Learning platforms, enabling users to access additional computational horsepower for training smart software and artificial intelligence (AI). Users of the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) will be able to tap into the parallel processing capabilities of Nvidia's Tesla K80 graphics processing units (GPUs) by spinning up virtual machines in the us-east1, asia-east1 and europe-west1 regions of the GCP. Offering such a service helps avoid the need for companies working on software and systems that use machine and deep learning algorithms to have GPU clusters in their own data centres. "As always, you only pay for what you use. This frees you up to spin up a large cluster of GPU machines for rapid deep learning and machine learning training with zero capital investment," said Google's product manager John Barrus.