GPU Cloud infrastructure

Gcore GPU Cloud infrastructure services provide high-performance compute clusters designed for machine learning tasks.

AI GPU infrastructure

You can train your ML models with the latest NVIDIA GPUs. We offer a wide range of Bare Metal servers and Virtual Machines powered by NVIDIA A100, H100, and L40S GPUs.

You can choose between multiple configurations and reservation plans that would best fit your computing requirements.

Specification	Characteristics	Use case	Performance
H100 with Infiniband	8x Nvidia H100 80GB 2 Intel Xeon 8480+ 2TB RAM 2x 960GB 8x3.84 TB NVMe 3.2 Tbit/s Infiniband 2x100Gbit/s Ethernet	Optimized for distributed training of Large Language Models.	Ultimate performance for compute-intensive tasks that require a significant exchange of data by the network.
A100 with Infiniband	8x Nvidia A100 80GB 2 Intel Xeon 8468 2 TB RAM 2x 960GB SSD 8x3.84 TB NVMe 800Gbit/s Infiniband	Specifically crafted for AI and HPC tasks. Boasts fourth-generation Tensor Cores and the Transformer Engine.	Well-balanced in performance and price.
A100 without Infiniband	8x Nvidia A100 80GB 2 Intel Xeon 8468 2 TB RAM 2x 960GB SSD 8x3.84 TB NVMe 2x100Gbit/s Ethernet	Training and fine-tuning of models on single nodes. Inference for large models. Multi-user HPC cluster.	The best solution for inference models that require more than 48GB vRAM.
L40	8x Nvidia L40S 2x Intel Xeon 8468 2TB RAM 4x7.68TB NVMe SSD 2x25Gbit/s Ethernet	Model inference. Fine-tuning for small and medium-size models.	The best solution for inference models that require less than 48GB vRAM.

Check out the pricing at our official website: AI GPU Cloud infrastructure.

AI IPU infrastructure

Our Graphcore infrastructure consists of three entities:

• Poplar server manages all the other servers in the cluster. You have full access to this server via SSH and can work with it directly to manage the infrastructure and run your model.

• M2000 or Bow-2000 server (different types are available in different regions) is used for calculations made while training your model. You don’t have access to it, and this server receives commands from the Poplar server.

• vIPU controller (virtual Intelligence Processing Unit) is a service which configures M2000/Bow-2000 servers of your AI infrastructure to form a cluster. It's involved while the cluster is being created and while you’re changing its configuration (e.g. resizing partitions). You have access to vIPU controller via API and can rebuild the cluster if needed.

For datasets storage, you can use Poplar server disk space, external S3 storage, or Gcore Object Storage.

Server specifications and performance

We provide two types of Graphcore servers: M2000 and Bow-2000. M2000 is a second-generation machine and Bow-2000 is a third-generation one. 

Bow-2000 specifications

Specification	Characteristics
IPU processors	4x Bow IPU processors (IPU frequency 1.85 GHz) 5,888 IPU-Cores™ with independent code execution on 35,328 worker threads
AI compute	1.394 petaFLOPS AI (FP16.16) compute 0.349 petaFLOPS FP32 compute
Memory	Up to ~260 GB memory (3.6 GB In-Processor Memory™ plus up to 256 GB Streaming Memory™) 261 TB/s memory bandwidth
Streaming Memory	2x DDR4-2400 DIMM DRAM options: 2x 64 GB (default SKU in Bow-2000 Founder’s Edition) or 2x 128 GB (contact sales)
IPU-Gateway	1x IPU-Gateway chip with integrated Arm Cortex quad-core A-series SoC
Internal SSD	RoCEv2 NIC (1 PCIe G4 x16 FH¾L slot) Standard QSFP ports
Mechanical	1U 19-inch chassis (Open Compute compliant) 40 mm (width) x 728 mm (depth) x 1U (height) Weight: 16.395 kg (36.14 lbs)
Lights-outmanagement	OpenBMC AST2520

M2000 specifications

Specification	Characteristics
IPU processors	4 Colossus GC200 IPU processors (IPU frequency 1.325GHz) 5,888 IPU-Cores™ with independent code execution on 35,328 worker threads
AI compute	1 petaFLOPS AI compute 0.25 petaFLOPS FP32 compute
IPU-Fabric	8x IPU-Links supporting 2Tbps bi-directional bandwidth 8x OSFP ports Switch-less scalability Up to 8 M2000s in directly connected stacked systems Up to 16 M2000s in IPU-POD systems 2x IPU-GW-Links (IPU-Link extension over 100GbE) 2 QSFP28 ports Switch or switch-less scalability supporting 400Gbps bi-directional bandwidth Up to 1024 IPU-M2000s connected
IPU-Gateway	1 IPU-Gateway with integrated Arm Cortex quad-core A-series SoC
Streaming Memory	2 DDR4-2400 DIMM DRAM DRAM options: 2x 64GB (default SKU in IPU-M2000 Founder’s Edition) or 2x 128GB or 2x 256GB (contact sales)
Internal SSD	32GB eMMC 1TB M.2 SSD
Mechanical	1U 19-inch chassis (Open Compute compliant) 440mm (width) x 728mm (depth) x 1U (height) Weight: 16.395kg (36.14lbs)
Lights-out management	OpenBMC AST2520 2x1GbE RJ45 management ports

Tools supported by Gcore GPU Cloud

Tool class	List of tools	Explanation
Framework	TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch, Paddle Paddle, ONNX, Hugging Face	Your model is supposed to use one of these frameworks for correct work.
Data platforms	PostgreSQL, Hadoop, Spark, Vertika	You can set up a connection between our cluster and your data platforms of these types to make them work together.
Programming languages	JavaScript, R, Swift, Python	Your model is supposed to be written in one of these languages for correct work.
Resources for receiving and processing data	Storm, Spark, Kafka, PySpark, MS SQL, Oracle, MongoDB	You can set up a connection between our cluster and your resources of these types to make them work together.
Exploration and visualization tools	Seaborn, Matplotlib, TensorBoard	You can connect our cluster to these tools to visualize your model.