AI hypercomputer and GPU acceleration with Google Cloud

Dennis Lu, a Product Manager at Google Cloud specializing in GPUs, presented on AI hypercomputer and GPU acceleration with Google Cloud. Lu covered Google Cloud’s AI hypercomputer, from consumption models to purpose-built hardware. Focus was given to Google’s cluster director for managing GPU fleets.

Dennis then moved to the hardware aspect of Google Cloud’s AI infrastructure, discussing current and upcoming GPU systems. Available systems include A3 Ultra (H200 GPUs), A4 (B200 GPUs), and A4X (GB200 systems), which are built on Rocky on CX-7. Also discussed were two systems coming in 2025, the NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 and a GB300 system, offering advancements in memory and networking.

The presentation also featured performance projections for LLM training, with A4 offering approximately 2x the performance of H100s. The A4 was described as a Goldilocks solution due to its balance of price and performance. There was also discussion on whether Hopper-generation GPUs would decrease in price because of newer generations of hardware.