Google says Intel-powered VMs are the way forward, despite cost

Date:
Mon, 03 Oct 2022 14:15:43 +0000

Description:
New partnership sees Google try to drive select high-growth enterprises away from cheaper AMD and Ampere VMs in favor of Intel.

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Google is pushing for some of its business cloud customers to offload their most demanding workloads onto pricey Intel virtual machines .

In a post on the Google Cloud blog, the company has announced the launch of the Intel Software Center of Excellence after a successful pilot scheme in 2021.

Businesses with use-cases such as video encoding, web transactions, databases , analytics, and AI inference are invited to apply for the free scheme, which will involve Google and Intel collaborating with accepted applicants to
access and optimize their workflow performance. Personalized cloud collaboration

The opportunity for Intel to personally review a business internal resources in order to deliver a personalized report on how it can implement specific optimisations to a workflow running on Google Cloud could seem enticing.

However, while the scheme is free, Intel VMs will cost businesses more on account of the companys Xeon Scalable processors, which offer built-in AI acceleration via the AVX-512 set of vector instructions - first introduced in 2013 - and the more recent Deep Learning Boost feature which leverages the technology.

While it's true that VMs fitted with Xeon Scalable processors can provide impressive speed boosts to some workflows, the software that powers them must be optimized by developers for use with the tech.

High costs and limited use cases could be the reasons why Google and Intel
are only offering a hands-on, white glove service, and one thats only available to certain high-growth enterprises, subject to application. READ MORE

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Companies who dont need, cant leverage, or simply arent aware of the latest Intel processor technology could be put off by an automatic change to
service.

While Intel has long been the only option for businesses looking to take advantage of AI acceleration, AMDs latest raft of Epyc server processors will ship with support for AVX-512 this autumn. Here's our list of the best remote desktop software right now



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