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Instance Typea2-highgpu-8ga2-megagpu-16g
DetailsOptimized for accelerated high performance computing workloads.

a – Accelerator optimized
2 – Generation
highgpu – High amound of GPU memory - 40x RAM/GPU ratio
8g – Number of GPUs
Optimized for accelerated high performance computing workloads.

a – Accelerator optimized
2 – Generation
megagpu – Large amound of GPU memory - 80x RAM/GPU ratio
16g – Number of GPUs
Instance FamilyAccelerator optimizedAccelerator optimized
DescriptionAccelerator Optimized: 8 NVIDIA Tesla A100 GPUs, 96 vCPUs, 680GB RAMAccelerator Optimized: 16 NVIDIA Tesla A100 GPUs, 96 vCPUs, 1360GB RAM
vCPUs9696
Memory680 GiB1360 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Cascade LakeIntel Cascade Lake
Coremark Score12693271258852
Shared CPUnono
GPUyesyes
GPUs816
GPU Namenvidia-tesla-a100nvidia-tesla-a100
GPU Total RAM (GiB)320640
Sustained Discounts (SUDs)nono
Sole Tenancyyesyes
Nested Virtualizationyesyes
Custom Shapesnono
Confidential Computenono
Maximum Persistent Disks128128
Maximum Persistent Disks Size524288 GB524288 GB
Disk Interface TypeSCSI (PD, Local SSD) NVMe (Local SSD)SCSI (PD, Local SSD) NVMe (Local SSD)
Local SSDyesyes
Max Local SSD3000 GB3000 GB
Extreme Persistent Disksnono
Hyperdisk Extremenono
Hyperdisk Throughputnono
Network InterfacesgVNIC, VirtIO-NetgVNIC, VirtIO-Net
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.84x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
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Geography
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a2-highgpu-8g
a2-megagpu-16g
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)31.4748n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)32.1101n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)32.3258n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)32.3967n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)32.3967n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)34.6005n/a
North AmericaIowa (us-central1)29.387155.7395
North AmericaOregon (us-west1)29.3871n/a
APACSingapore (asia-southeast1)n/a60.4762
North AmericaSouth Carolina (us-east1)29.3871n/a
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