NDasrA100_v4 sizes series

The ND A100 v4 series virtual machine(VM) is a new flagship addition to the Azure GPU family. These sizes are designed for high-end Deep Learning training and tightly coupled scale-up and scale-out HPC workloads.

The ND A100 v4 series starts with a single VM and eight NVIDIA Ampere A100 40GB Tensor Core GPUs. ND A100 v4-based deployments can scale up to thousands of GPUs with an 1.6 TB/s of interconnect bandwidth per VM. Each GPU within the VM is provided with its own dedicated, topology-agnostic 200 GB/s NVIDIA Mellanox HDR InfiniBand connection. These connections are automatically configured between VMs occupying the same Azure Virtual Machine Scale Set, and support GPU Direct RDMA.

Each GPU features NVLINK 3.0 connectivity for communication within the VM with 96 physical 2nd-generation AMD Epyc™ 7V12 (Rome) CPU cores behind them.

These instances provide excellent performance for many AI, ML, and analytics tools that support GPU acceleration 'out-of-the-box,' such as TensorFlow, Pytorch, Caffe, RAPIDS, and other frameworks. Additionally, the scale-out InfiniBand interconnect supports a large set of existing AI and HPC tools that are built on NVIDIA's NCCL2 communication libraries for seamless clustering of GPUs.

Host specifications

Part	Quantity ^{Count Units}	Specs ^{SKU ID, Performance Units, etc.}
Processor	96 vCPUs	AMD EPYC 7V12 (Rome) [x86-64]
Memory	900 GiB
Local Storage	1 Disk	6000 GiB
Remote Storage	32 Disks	80000 IOPS 800 MBps
Network	8 NICs	24000 Mbps
Accelerators	8 GPUs	Nvidia A100 GPU (40GB)

Feature support

Premium Storage: Supported
Premium Storage caching: Supported
Live Migration: Not Supported
Memory Preserving Updates: Not Supported
Generation 2 VMs: Supported
Generation 1 VMs: Not Supported
Accelerated Networking: Supported
Ephemeral OS Disk: Supported
Local temporary storage: Supported
Nested Virtualization: Not Supported

Sizes in series

vCPUs (Qty.) and Memory for each size

Size Name	vCPUs (Qty.)	Memory (GB)
Standard_ND96asr_v4	96	900

VM Basics resources

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Local (temp) storage info for each size

Size Name	Max Temp Storage Disks (Qty.)	Temp Disk Size (GiB)
Standard_ND96asr_v4	1	6000

Storage resources

Table definitions

¹Temp disk speed often differs between RR (Random Read) and RW (Random Write) operations. RR operations are typically faster than RW operations. The RW speed is usually slower than the RR speed on series where only the RR speed value is listed.
Storage capacity is shown in units of GiB or 1024^3 bytes. When you compare disks measured in GB (1000^3 bytes) to disks measured in GiB (1024^3) remember that capacity numbers given in GiB may appear smaller. For example, 1023 GiB = 1098.4 GB.
Disk throughput is measured in input/output operations per second (IOPS) and MBps where MBps = 10^6 bytes/sec.
To learn how to get the best storage performance for your VMs, see Virtual machine and disk performance.

Remote (uncached) storage info for each size

Size Name	Max Remote Storage Disks (Qty.)	Uncached Disk IOPS	Uncached Disk Speed (MBps)
Standard_ND96asr_v4	32	80000	800

Storage resources

Table definitions

¹Some sizes support bursting to temporarily increase disk performance. Burst speeds can be maintained for up to 30 minutes at a time.
²Special Storage refers to either Ultra Disk or Premium SSD v2 storage.
Storage capacity is shown in units of GiB or 1024^3 bytes. When you compare disks measured in GB (1000^3 bytes) to disks measured in GiB (1024^3) remember that capacity numbers given in GiB may appear smaller. For example, 1023 GiB = 1098.4 GB.
Disk throughput is measured in input/output operations per second (IOPS) and MBps where MBps = 10^6 bytes/sec.
Data disks can operate in cached or uncached modes. For cached data disk operation, the host cache mode is set to ReadOnly or ReadWrite. For uncached data disk operation, the host cache mode is set to None.
To learn how to get the best storage performance for your VMs, see Virtual machine and disk performance.

Network interface info for each size

Size Name	Max NICs (Qty.)	Max Bandwidth (Mbps)
Standard_ND96asr_v4	8	24000

Networking resources

Table definitions

Expected network bandwidth is the maximum aggregated bandwidth allocated per VM type across all NICs, for all destinations. For more information, see Virtual machine network bandwidth
Upper limits aren't guaranteed. Limits offer guidance for selecting the right VM type for the intended application. Actual network performance will depend on several factors including network congestion, application loads, and network settings. For information on optimizing network throughput, see Optimize network throughput for Azure virtual machines.
To achieve the expected network performance on Linux or Windows, you may need to select a specific version or optimize your VM. For more information, see Bandwidth/Throughput testing (NTTTCP).

Size Name	Accelerators (Qty.)	Accelerator-Memory (GB)
Standard_ND96asr_v4	8	320

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