IBM deal brings AMD Instinct accelerators to IBM Cloud [Video]

IBM and AMD inked a deal to offer MI300X accelerators as a service on IBM Cloud, targeting enterprise customers with plans for AI workloads and HPC applications.

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IBM is expanding its AI accelerator options for enterprise users of its cloud service. AMD Instinct MI300X accelerators are now available as a service on IBM Cloud, the vendors announced.

With 192GB of high-bandwidth memory, the MI300X accelerators are equipped for large AI model inferencing and fine tuning. Their large memory capacity can help customers run larger models with fewer GPUs, potentially lowering costs for inferencing, according to AMD.

To help optimize performance for enterprise customers running AI applications, the partnership calls for AMD Instinct MI300X accelerators to be available as a service on IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC, as well as through container support with IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service and IBM Red …