Microsoft Azure#
Azure Virtual Machine
Launch an Azure VM instance and run RAPIDS.
single-node
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Launch a RAPIDS cluster on managed Kubernetes.
multi-node
Azure Cluster via Dask
Launch a RAPIDS cluster on Azure VMs or Azure ML with Dask.
multi-node
Azure Machine Learning (Azure ML)
Launch RAPIDS Experiment on Azure ML.
single-node multi-node
RAPIDS can be deployed on Microsoft Azure in several ways. Azure supports various kinds of GPU VMs for different needs. For RAPIDS users we recommend NC/ND VMs for computation and deep learning optimized instances.
NC (>=v3) series
Size |
vCPU |
Memory: GiB |
Temp Storage (with NVMe) : GiB |
GPU |
GPU Memory: GiB |
Max data disks |
Max uncached disk throughput: IOPS / MBps |
Max NICs/network bandwidth (MBps) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Standard_ND96isr_H100_v5 |
96 |
1900 |
1000 |
8 |
80 |
32 |
40800/612 |
8/80,000 |
Standard_NC24ads_A100_v4 |
24 |
220 |
1123 |
1 |
80 |
12 |
30000/1000 |
2/20,000 |
Standard_NC48ads_A100_v4 |
48 |
440 |
2246 |
2 |
160 |
24 |
60000/2000 |
4/40,000 |
Standard_NC96ads_A100_v4 |
96 |
880 |
4492 |
4 |
320 |
32 |
120000/4000 |
8/80,000 |
Standard_NC4as_T4_v3 |
4 |
28 |
180 |
1 |
16 |
8 |
2 / 8000 |
|
Standard_NC8as_T4_v3 |
8 |
56 |
360 |
1 |
16 |
16 |
4 / 8000 |
|
Standard_NC16as_T4_v3 |
16 |
110 |
360 |
1 |
16 |
32 |
8 / 8000 |
|
Standard_NC64as_T4_v3 |
64 |
440 |
2880 |
4 |
64 |
32 |
8 / 32000 |
|
Standard_NC6s_v3 |
6 |
112 |
736 |
1 |
16 |
12 |
20000/200 |
4 |
Standard_NC12s_v3 |
12 |
224 |
1474 |
2 |
32 |
24 |
40000/400 |
8 |
Standard_NC24s_v3 |
24 |
448 |
2948 |
4 |
64 |
32 |
80000/800 |
8 |
Standard_NC24rs_v3* |
24 |
448 |
2948 |
4 |
64 |
32 |
80000/800 |
8 |
* RDMA capable
ND (>=v2) series
Size |
vCPU |
Memory: GiB |
Temp Storage (with NVMe) : GiB |
GPU |
GPU Memory: GiB |
Max data disks |
Max uncached disk throughput: IOPS / MBps |
Max NICs/network bandwidth (MBps) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Standard_ND96asr_v4 |
96 |
900 |
6000 |
8 A100 40 GB GPUs (NVLink 3.0) |
40 |
32 |
80,000 / 800 |
8/24,000 |
Standard_ND96amsr_A100_v4 |
96 |
1900 |
6400 |
8 A100 80 GB GPUs (NVLink 3.0) |
80 |
32 |
80,000 / 800 |
8/24,000 |
Standard_ND40rs_v2 |
40 |
672 |
2948 |
8 V100 32 GB (NVLink) |
32 |
32 |
80,000 / 800 |
8/24,000 |