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Instance Typen2-highmem-8a3-highgpu-8g
DetailsHigh-performance web servers, scientific modeling, batch processing, distributed analytics, HPC, machine/deep learning inference, ad serving, scalable multiplayer gaming, and video encoding.

n – General purpose
2 – Generation
highmem – 8x RAM/CPU ratio
8 – Number of CPUs
Optimized for accelerated high performance computing workloads.

a – Accelerator optimized
3 – Generation
highgpu – High amound of GPU memory - 40x RAM/GPU ratio
8g – Number of GPUs
Instance FamilyGeneral-purposeAccelerator optimized
Description8 vCPUs 64 GB RAMAccelerator Optimized: 8 NVIDIA H100 GPU, 208 vCPUs, 1872GB RAM, 16 local SSD
vCPUs8208
Memory64 GiB1872 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Cascade Lake and Ice LakeIntel Sapphire Rapids
Coremark Score138406
Shared CPUnono
GPUnoyes
GPUs8
GPU Namenvidia-h100-80gb
GPU Total RAM (GiB)640
Sustained Discounts (SUDs)yesno
25%-50% Usage Sustained Discount0.8678
50%-75% Usage Sustained Discount0.733
75%-100% Usage Sustained Discount0.6
Extended Memoryyes
Sole Tenancyyesyes
Nested Virtualizationyesno
Custom Shapesyesno
Confidential Computenono
Maximum Persistent Disks128128
Maximum Persistent Disks Size263168 GB524288 GB
Disk Interface TypeSCSI (PD, Local SSD) NVMe (Local SSD)NVMe
Local SSDyesyes
Max Local SSD9000 GB6000 GB
Extreme Persistent Disksyesno
Hyperdisk Extremeyesyes
Hyperdisk Throughputyesyes
Network InterfacesgVNIC, VirtIO-NetgVNIC
Avg Price Diff1.00x162.64x

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n2-highmem-8
a3-highgpu-8g
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.524196.7123
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.5902111.8172
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.6068112.7945
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.6079113.5550
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.6079114.1822
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.6184125.7886
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)0.6184n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)0.6294n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)0.6294n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)0.6295n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)0.6295n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.576596.7123
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)0.6320n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)0.6341n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)0.6367n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)0.6465n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)0.6718n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)0.6730n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)0.6730n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)0.6752n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)0.6752n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)0.6752n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.576598.9257
HiddenHidden (hidden-30)0.6760n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-31)0.6865n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-32)0.7046n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-33)0.7332n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-34)0.7436n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-35)0.7494n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-36)0.8318n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-37)0.8385n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.576598.9257
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.5769101.7012
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.5769101.8857
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.5769103.6423
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.5769105.4956
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.5902109.7906
APACIndia (asia-south1)n/a91.3457
North AmericaIowa (us-central1)0.5241n/a
North AmericaOhio (us-east5)0.5241n/a
North AmericaOregon (us-west1)n/a87.8325
North AmericaSouth Carolina (us-east1)0.5241n/a
North AmericaVirginia (us-east4)n/a87.8325
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