Artificial Intelligence

AMD software made available in Vultr's Cloud

27th September 2024
AMD
Caitlin Gittins
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Vultr has announced the upcoming availability of AMD Instinct MI300X accelerators and ROCm open software within its composable Cloud infrastructure. 

This partnership combines Vultr's flexible Cloud platform with AMD’s next-generation silicon architecture, unlocking new possibilities for GPU-accelerated workloads, from data centres to Edge computing.

“Innovation thrives in an open ecosystem,” said J.J. Kardwell, CEO of Vultr. “The future of enterprise AI workloads is in open environments that allow for flexibility, scalability, and security.  AMD accelerators give our customers unparalleled cost-to-performance. The balance of high memory with low power requirements furthers sustainability efforts and gives our customers the capabilities to efficiently drive innovation and growth through AI.”

Building a composable Cloud

With the integration of AMD ROCm open software and Vultr's Cloud platform, enterprises gain access to a leading environment for AI development and deployment. The open nature of AMD's architecture, combined with Vultr’s infrastructure, grants enterprises access to thousands of open-source, pre-trained models and frameworks, offering a streamlined code experience to fast-track AI projects.

“We are proud of our close collaboration with Vultr, as its Cloud platform is designed to manage high-performance AI training and inferencing tasks and provide improved overall efficiency,” said Negin Oliver, Corporate Vice President of Business Development, Data Center GPU Business Unit, AMD. “With the adoption of AMD Instinct MI300X accelerators and ROCm open software for these latest deployments, Vultr’s customers will benefit from having a truly optimised system tasked to manage a wide range of AI-intensive workloads.”  

The AMD architecture integrated into Vultr’s infrastructure enables true Cloud-native orchestration for AI resources. The combination of AMD Instinct accelerators and ROCm software management tools with Vultr’s Kubernetes Engine for Cloud GPU allows the creation of GPU-accelerated Kubernetes clusters, capable of powering the most demanding workloads globally. This platform gives developers the resources to build advanced AI and machine learning solutions for complex business challenges.

Key benefits

  • Enhanced price-to-performance: Vultr's high-performance Cloud compute, boosted by AMD GPUs, delivers outstanding processing power for demanding workloads while maintaining cost efficiency
  • Scalable compute and optimised workload management: Vultr’s scalable infrastructure, paired with AMD’s cutting-edge processing, enables businesses to seamlessly expand their compute resources as needed
  • Accelerated innovation in R&D: Vultr’s Cloud platform provides the computational power and scalability required for deploying AMD Instinct GPUs and ROCm software, enabling faster problem-solving and innovation cycles in research and development
  • AI inference optimisation: Vultr’s platform, with AMD Instinct MI300X GPUs, delivers faster, scalable, and energy-efficient processing of AI models, reducing latency and increasing throughput
  • Sustainable computing: Vultr’s environmentally friendly Cloud infrastructure enables large-scale operations to achieve energy-efficient and sustainable computing, leveraging AMD's energy-efficient AI technologies

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