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Understand new N series VMs
Understand what the new N series Azure VMs offer
John Savill
November 16, 2015
1 Min Read
Q. What are the N series Azure VMs?
A. The Azure N series VMs were announced during AzureCon and introduce GPUs to Azure VMs for workloads that require GPU capabilities. The N series should be available in 2016 and will come in various combinations of CPU cores, memory, temporary SSD drive and GPU. The GPU capacity available ranges from one M60 GPU to four K80 GPUs. The details of the known VMs based on Microsoft's video available at https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/videos/azurecon-2015-applications-that-scale-using-gpu-compute/ are as follows:
N1
CPU Cores(E5-2690v3) | 6 | 6 | 12 | 24 | 24 |
RAM (GB) | 64 | 64 | 128 | 256 | 256 |
SSD (TB) | .5 | .5 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Network | Standard | Standard | Standard | Standard | Standard and RDMA |
GPU Resources | 1 M60 GPU(1/2 physical card) | 1 K80 GPU(1/2 physical card) | 2 K80 GPUs(1 physical card) | 4 K80 GPUs(2 physical cards) | 4 K80 GPUs(2 physical cards) |
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