AMD Instinct™ MI200 Adopted for Large-Scale AI Training in Microsoft Azure
May 26 2022 - 09:00AM
AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) and Microsoft continued their collaboration in
the cloud, with Microsoft announcing the use of AMD Instinct™ MI200
accelerators to power large scale AI training workloads. In
addition, Microsoft announced it is working closely with the
PyTorch Core team and AMD data center software team to optimize the
performance and developer experience for customers running PyTorch
on Microsoft Azure and ensure that developers’ PyTorch projects
take advantage of the performance and features of AMD Instinct
accelerators. “AMD Instinct MI200 accelerators provide customers
with cutting-edge AI and HPC performance and will power many of the
world’s fastest supercomputer systems that push the boundaries of
science,” said Brad McCredie, corporate vice president, Data Center
and Accelerated Processing, AMD. “Our work with Microsoft to enable
large-scale AI training and inference in the cloud not only
highlights the expansive technology collaboration between the two
companies, but the performance capabilities of AMD Instinct MI200
accelerators and how they will ultimately help customers advance
the growing demands for AI workloads.” “We’re proud to build upon
our long-term commitment to innovation with AMD and make Azure the
first public cloud to deploy clusters of the AMD Instinct MI200
accelerator for large scale AI training,” said Eric Boyd, corporate
vice president, Azure AI, Microsoft. “We have started testing the
MI200 with our own AI workloads and are seeing great performance,
and we look forward to continuing our collaboration with AMD to
bring customers more performance, choice and flexibility for their
AI needs.” The AMD Instinct MI200 accelerators join other AMD
products being used at Microsoft Azure including the newly
announced Azure HBv3 virtual machines which use 3rd Gen AMD EPYC™
processors with AMD 3D V-Cache™ Technology, and numerous other
instances for confidential computing, general purpose workloads,
memory bound workloads, visual workloads and more.
Supporting Resources
- Learn more about AMD Instinct™ 200 series accelerators
- Learn more about AMD and Azure
- Learn more about AMD CDNA 2 architecture
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