Powered by the NVIDIA Ampere Architecture, A100 is the engine of the NVIDIA data center platform. A100 provides up to 20X higher performance over the prior generation and can be partitioned into seven GPU instances to dynamically adjust to shifting demands. NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPU delivers unprecedented acceleration at every scale to power the world's highest-performing elastic data centers for AI, data analytics, and HPC. As the engine of the NVIDIA data center platform, A100 can efficiently scale up to thousands of GPUs or, using new Multi-Instance. Released in 2020, the NVIDIA A100 is a data center GPU built on NVIDIA's Ampere architecture. It became the standard GPU for AI model training from 2020 through 2023 and remains widely deployed on cloud infrastructure today. Key specs include 40GB or 80GB of HBM2e memory, third-generation Tensor Cores, and support for PCIe 4. ConnectX-6 NIC Adapter: 200Gb/s, commonly paired with A100 GPUs.
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