REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Nov. 16,
2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Oracle today announced the general
availability of a range of new Oracle Cloud Infrastructure compute
options, providing customers with unparalleled compute performance
based on Oracle's recently announced X7 hardware. Newly enhanced
virtual machine (VM) and bare metal compute, and new bare metal
graphical processing unit (GPU) instances enable customers to run
even the most infrastructure-heavy workloads such as
high-performance computing (HPC), big data, and artificial
intelligence (AI) faster and more cost-effectively.
Unlike competitive offerings, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is
built to meet the unique requirements of enterprises, offering
predictable performance for enterprise applications while bringing
cost efficiency to HPC use cases. Oracle delivers 1,214 percent
better storage performance at 88 percent lower cost per
input/output operation (IO)1.
New Innovations Drive Unrivaled Performance at Scale
All of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's new compute instances
leverage Intel's latest Xeon processors based on the Skylake
architecture. Oracle's accelerated bare metal shapes are also
powered by NVIDIA Tesla P100 GPUs, based on the Pascal
architecture. Providing 28 cores, dual 25Gb network interfaces for
high-bandwidth requirements and over 18 TFLOPS of single-precision
performance per instance, these GPU instances accelerate
computation-heavy use cases such as reservoir modeling, AI, and
Deep Learning.
Oracle also plans to soon release NVIDIA Volta
architecture-powered instances with 8 NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPUs
interconnected via NVIDIA NVLINK to generate over 125 TFLOPS of
single-precision performance. Unlike the competition, Oracle will
offer these GPUs as both virtual machines and bare metal
instances. Oracle will also provide pre-configured images for
fast deployment of use cases such as AI. Customers can also
leverage TensorFlow or Caffe toolkits to accelerate HPC and Deep
Learning use cases.
"Only Oracle Cloud Infrastructure provides the compute, storage,
networking, and edge services necessary to deliver the end-to-end
performance required of today's modern enterprise," said
Kash Iftikhar, vice president of
product management, Oracle. "With these latest enhancements,
customers can avoid additional hardware investments on-premises and
gain the agility of the cloud. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure offers
them tremendous horsepower on-demand to drive competitive
advantage."
In addition, Oracle's new VM standard shape is now available in
1, 2, 4, 8, 16, and 24 cores, while the bare metal standard shape
offers 52 cores, the highest Intel Skylake-based CPU count per
instance of any cloud vendor. Combined with its high-scale storage
capacity, supporting up to 512 terabytes (TB) of non-volatile
memory express (NVMe) solid state drive (SSD) remote block volumes,
these instances are ideal for traditional enterprise applications
that require predictable storage performance.
The Dense I/O shapes are also available in both VM and bare
metal instances and are optimal for HPC, database applications, and
big data workloads. The bare metal Dense I/O shape is capable of
over 3.9 million input/output operations per second (IOPS) for
write operations. It also includes 51 TB of local NVMe SSD
storage, offering 237 percent more capacity than competing
solutions1.
Furthermore, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure has simplified
management of virtual machines by offering a Terraform provider for
single-click deployment of single or multiple compute instances for
clustering. In addition, a Terraform-based Kubernetes installer is
available for deployment of highly available, containerized
applications.
By delivering compute solutions that leverage NVIDIA's latest
technologies, Oracle can dramatically accelerate its customers'
HPC, analytics and AI workloads. "HPC, AI and advanced analytic
workloads are defined by an almost insatiable hunger for compute,"
said Ian Buck, general manager and
vice president of Accelerated Computing at NVIDIA. "To run these
compute-intensive workloads, customers require enterprise-class
accelerated computing, a need Oracle is addressing by putting
NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPU accelerators in the Oracle Cloud
Infrastructure."
"The integration of TidalScale's inverse hypervisor technology
with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure enables organizations, for the
first time, to run their largest workloads across dozens of Oracle
Cloud bare metal systems as a single Software-Defined Server in a
public cloud environment," said Gary
Smerdon, chief executive officer, TidalScale, Inc. "Oracle
Cloud customers now have the flexibility to configure, deploy and
right-size servers to fit their compute needs while paying only for
what they use."
"Cutting-edge hardware can make all the difference for companies
we work with like Airbus, ARUP and Rolls Royce," said Jamil Appa, co-founder and director of Zenotech.
"We've seen significant improvements in performance with the X7
architecture. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is a no-brainer for
compute-intensive HPC workloads."
Additional Resources
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure HPC Solutions
- Connect with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure on Twitter
- Connect with Oracle Cloud on Facebook, Twitter and
via the Oracle Cloud Blog
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1 Based on comparison to AWS i3.16XL using
industry-standard CloudHarmony benchmark, a measure of storage
performance across a range of workloads. For more information, see:
https://blogs.oracle.com/cloud-infrastructure/high-performance-x7-compute-service-review-analysis.
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