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Instance Typec4-highcpu-16a2-megagpu-16g
DetailsHigh-performance web servers, scientific modeling, batch processing, distributed analytics, HPC, machine/deep learning inference, ad serving, scalable multiplayer gaming, and video encoding.

c – Compute optimized
4 – Generation
highcpu – 1-2x RAM/CPU ratio
16 – Number of CPUs
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 FamilyGeneral-purposeAccelerator optimized
Description16 vCPUs, 32 GB RAMAccelerator Optimized: 16 NVIDIA Tesla A100 GPUs, 96 vCPUs, 1360GB RAM
vCPUs1696
Memory32 GiB1360 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Emerald Rapids and Granite RapidsIntel Cascade Lake
Coremark Score1258852
Shared CPUnono
GPUnoyes
GPUs16
GPU Namenvidia-tesla-a100
GPU Total RAM (GiB)640
Sustained Discounts (SUDs)nono
Sole Tenancyyesyes
Nested Virtualizationyesyes
Custom Shapesnono
Confidential Computenono
Maximum Persistent Disks128128
Maximum Persistent Disks Size524288 GB524288 GB
Disk Interface TypeNVMeSCSI (PD, Local SSD) NVMe (Local SSD)
Local SSDyesyes
Max Local SSD18000 GB3000 GB
Extreme Persistent Disksnono
Hyperdisk Extremeyesno
Hyperdisk Throughputyesno
Network InterfacesgVNIC, IDPFgVNIC, VirtIO-Net
Avg Price Diff1.00x72.26x

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c4-highcpu-16
a2-megagpu-16g
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.6804n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.7492n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.7492n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.7492n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.7492n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.7492n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)0.7664n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)0.7757n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)0.7879n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)0.7893n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)0.7893n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.6804n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)0.8029n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)0.8029n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)0.8029n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)0.8179n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)0.8179n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)0.8233n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)0.8267n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)0.8394n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)0.8505n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)0.8738n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.7076n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-30)0.8738n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-31)0.8738n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-32)0.8777n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-33)0.8845n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-34)0.8914n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-35)0.9150n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-36)0.9518n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-37)0.9730n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-38)1.0804n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-39)1.0887n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.7077n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.7144n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.7144n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.7144n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.7417n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.7485n/a
North AmericaIowa (us-central1)0.680455.7395
APACSingapore (asia-southeast1)n/a60.4762
North AmericaSouth Carolina (us-east1)0.6804n/a
North AmericaVirginia (us-east4)0.6804n/a
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