# New GPGPU flavors in cPouta

DevFeed: [New GPGPU flavors in cPouta](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/new-gpgpu-flavors-in-cpouta-19755.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://cloud.blog.csc.fi/2017/09/new-gpgpu-flavors-in-cpouta.html>)

Author: Unknown (noreply@blogger.com)

Published: 2017-09-22T09:38:00Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [CSC - IT Center For Science - Cloud Team](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/csc-it-center-for-science-cloud-team.md>)

Topics: [cloud-infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud-infrastructure.md>), [Hardware](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/hardware.md>), [Nvidia](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/nvidia.md>), [PyTorch](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/pytorch.md>), [Deep learning](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/deep-learning.md>), [Server](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/server.md>)

Tags: [compute](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/compute.md>), [cpouta](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cpouta.md>), [deep-learning](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/deep-learning.md>), [hardware](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hardware.md>), [nvidia](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/nvidia.md>), [servers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/servers.md>), [tensorflow](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tensorflow.md>)

## AI overview

CSC is launching GPGPU flavors on the cPouta cloud platform. The instances use servers with four NVIDIA P100 Pascal cards each, substantial memory, and two SSDs in RAID1. They support GPU-accelerated computing, machine and deep learning, and rendering, with limited initial availability and relatively high billing-unit consumption.

## Source excerpt

Today we're launching GPGPU (General Purpose Computing on Graphics Processing Units) flavors on cPouta! The servers have 4 NVIDIA P100 Pascal cards - each! They are backed by tons of memory and two SSDs in RAID1. This ensures that you can get the most out of these power-packed cards. This hardware is being shared with the CSC Super Cluster Taito; we can move GPGPUs between these when we see the need to (hint: contact CSC if there's no free GPGPUs and you need more). We're starting off with only a few GPGPU servers in cPouta while we get a feel for the demand. The details about the new flavors are listed in our user guide at research.csc.fi. Please note that the billing units consumed by these instances is quite significant compared to other flavors. The GPGPUs are great for running things like: High Performance Compute applications leveraging GPUs Machine- and deep learning i.a. TensorFlow Rendering