Microsoft adopts NVIDIA Blackwell to power the next frontier of AI supercomputing

We are pleased to announce the launch of the first cloud private preview of the Azure ND GB200 V6 VM series, based on the NVIDIA accelerating computing platform. This latest VM, powered by the NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip, features NVIDIA Grace CPUs and NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs with exceptional AI supercomputing…

19/11/2024Azure High Performance Computing (HPC) Blog

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