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Techday NZ
5 days ago
- Business
- Techday NZ
Vultr launches early access to AMD Instinct MI355X GPU for AI
Vultr has announced the availability of the AMD Instinct MI355X GPU as part of its cloud infrastructure services. As one of the first cloud providers to integrate the new AMD Instinct MI355X GPU, Vultr is now taking pre-orders for early access, with global availability scheduled for the third quarter of the year. The GPU forms part of AMD's latest focus on high-capacity computational demands, catering to artificial intelligence (AI) workloads as well as enterprise-scale applications. Product features The AMD Instinct MI355X GPU is based on AMD's 4th Generation CDNA architecture. According to Vultr, this GPU features 288 GB of HBM3E memory, delivers up to 8 TB/s of memory bandwidth, and supports expanded datatypes such as FP6 and FP4. These improvements are designed to address complex tasks ranging from AI training and inference to scientific simulations within high-performance computing (HPC) environments. For customers operating within higher-density data environments, the Instinct MI355X supports direct liquid cooling (DLC). This enhancement offers increased thermal efficiency, which is intended to unlock greater computing performance per rack and facilitate advanced, scalable cooling strategies. The GPU is also supported by the latest version of AMD's ROCm software, which further optimises tasks related to AI inference, training, and compatibility with various frameworks. This results in improved throughput and reduced latency for critical operations. AMD and Vultr partnership Vultr's portfolio already includes other AMD offerings, such as the AMD EPYC 9004 Series and EPYC 7003 Series central processing units (CPUs), as well as previous GPU models like the Instinct MI325X and MI300X. Customers using the MI355X in combination with AMD EPYC 4005 Series CPUs will benefit from a fully supported computing stack across both processing and acceleration functions, streamlining high-powered workloads from end to end. Negin Oliver, Corporate Vice President of Business Development, Data Centre GPU Business at AMD, stated: "AMD is the trusted AI solutions provider of choice, enabling customers to tackle the most ambitious AI initiatives, from building large-scale AI cloud deployments to accelerating AI-powered scientific discovery. AMD Instinct MI350 series GPUs paired with AMD ROCm software provide the performance, flexibility, and security needed to deliver tailored AI solutions that meet the diverse demands of the modern AI landscape." The collaboration builds on Vultr's efforts to support a range of AMD solutions tailored for enterprise, HPC, and AI sectors, reinforcing the company's capacity to cater to evolving customer workloads. Cloud market implications J.J. Kardwell, Chief Executive Officer of Vultr, highlighted the alignment of the new GPU with market requirements. Kardwell commented: "AMD MI355X GPUs are designed to meet the diverse and complex demands of today's AI workloads, delivering exceptional value and flexibility. As AI development continues to accelerate, the scalability, security, and efficiency these GPUs deliver are more essential than ever. We are proud to be among the first cloud providers worldwide to offer AMD MI355X GPUs, empowering our customers with next-generation AI infrastructure." AMD is recognised as a member of the Vultr Cloud Alliance, which supports a collaborative ecosystem of technology providers focused on offering integrated cloud computing solutions. The introduction of the MI355X GPU follows a period of upgrades across AMD's GPU lineup, including a greater emphasis on catering to both inferencing and enterprise-scale workloads. Vultr's offering is aimed at organisations seeking advanced compute resources for AI-driven applications and scientific tasks requiring significant computational capacity. Vultr's global network reportedly serves hundreds of thousands of customers across 185 countries, supplying services in cloud compute, GPU, bare metal infrastructure and cloud storage. The addition of AMD's latest GPU to its infrastructure underlines Vultr's commitment to providing a variety of options for businesses and developers pursuing AI and HPC advancements.
National Post
12-06-2025
- Business
- National Post
Vultr Optimizes AI Workloads with AMD Instinct™ MI355X Advanced Architecture and Efficient Compute
Article content Vultr maximizes AI throughput with AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs, leveraging advanced architecture and optimized design to provide exceptional performance for demanding AI workloads. Article content WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Vultr, the world's largest privately-held cloud infrastructure company, today announced that it is among the first cloud providers to offer the new AMD Instinct™ MI355X GPU. A top-tier sponsor of AMD Advancing AI, Vultr is now taking pre-orders for early access to AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs, available in Q3, to help customers accelerate their AI workloads worldwide. Article content Article content Built on the 4th Gen AMD CDNA architecture, AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs deliver exceptional performance and energy efficiency for a wide range of workloads, from AI training and inference to complex scientific simulations. They offer massive memory capacity (288 GB of HBM3E), high memory bandwidth (8 TB/s), and expanded datatype support (FP6, FP4), providing optimized solutions for diverse AI and HPC needs. Article content For higher-density environments, direct liquid cooling (DLC) options deliver enhanced thermal efficiency, unlocking higher performance per rack and supporting advanced cooling infrastructure at scale. Complementing the new hardware, the latest ROCm™ software enhancements further optimize AI inference, training, and framework compatibility, delivering high throughput and ultra-low latency. Article content 'AMD is the trusted AI solutions provider of choice, enabling customers to tackle the most ambitious AI initiatives, from building large-scale AI cloud deployments to accelerating AI-powered scientific discovery,' said Negin Oliver, corporate vice president of business development, Data Center GPU Business, AMD. 'AMD Instinct MI350 series GPUs paired with AMD ROCm software provide the performance, flexibility, and security needed to deliver tailored AI solutions that meet the diverse demands of the modern AI landscape.' Article content AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs join Vultr's robust lineup of AMD solutions, which include AMD EPYC 9004 Series and AMD EPYC 7003 Series CPUs, as well as AMD Instinct MI325X and MI300X GPUs. When coupled with AMD EPYC™ 4005 Series CPUs, customers benefit from full stack support – delivering high-performance compute and seamless integration from processor to accelerator. 'AMD MI355X GPUs are designed to meet the diverse and complex demands of today's AI workloads, delivering exceptional value and flexibility,' said J.J. Kardwell, CEO of Vultr. 'As AI development continues to accelerate, the scalability, security, and efficiency these GPUs deliver are more essential than ever. We are proud to be among the first cloud providers worldwide to offer AMD MI355X GPUs, empowering our customers with next-generation AI infrastructure.' Article content AMD is a member of the Vultr Cloud Alliance, a composable ecosystem of best-of-breed technology partners delivering integrated solutions and services for cloud computing. To learn more about the AMD and Vultr partnership, visit us here and contact sales to get started. Article content About Vultr Article content Vultr is on a mission to make high-performance cloud infrastructure easy to use, affordable, and locally accessible for enterprises and AI innovators around the world. Vultr is trusted by hundreds of thousands of active customers across 185 countries for its flexible, scalable, global Cloud Compute, Cloud GPU, Bare Metal, and Cloud Storage solutions. Founded by David Aninowsky and self-funded for over a decade, Vultr has grown to become the world's largest privately held cloud infrastructure company. Article content Article content Article content Article content Article content Contacts Article content Media Contact Article content Article content
Cision Canada
20-05-2025
- Business
- Cision Canada
Clarifai Joins Vultr Cloud Alliance to Deliver Scalable, Cost-Optimized, Full-Stack AI
WASHINGTON, May 20, 2025 /CNW/ -- Clarifai, a global leader in AI and pioneer of the full-stack AI platform, today announced it has joined the Vultr Cloud Alliance. This collaboration enables enterprises to build, deploy, and scale AI workloads with enhanced flexibility and control over performance, governance, and cost, leveraging Clarifai's platform and Vultr's global high-performance cloud infrastructure. The collaboration brings together Clarifai's full-stack AI platform, which covers everything from model development to deployment and governance, with Vultr's global reach, security, regulatory compliance (including HIPAA, SOC 2+, and more), and operational excellence. Vultr's infrastructure includes high-performance CPUs, managed Kubernetes through Vultr Kubernetes Engine (VKE), managed databases like Apache ® Kafka, scalable storage, bare metal servers, and a wide choice of the latest AMD and NVIDIA GPUs, offering optimal price-to-performance. Together, Clarifai and Vultr offer organizations the ability to run any model in any environment with complete control over performance, governance, and offering up to 90% cost savings. "Combining capabilities with these leading industry partners means customers can now deploy and manage their AI workloads efficiently across Vultr's global cloud, gaining full control over costs and performance while getting access to a broader range of GPUs", said Alfredo Ramos, Chief Product & Technology Officer at Clarifai. "This is about enabling all clouds, all compute, and all AI models on one platform." By working together, joint Clarifai and Vultr customers can save at least 70% on the costs of the NVIDIA A100 80 GB compared to hyperscalers, with potential for greater savings through a longer-term commitment. Customers can purchase single A100 GPUs or in blocks of 8 GPUs. Key highlights of the partnership include: Any AI Model, Any GPU: Users can deploy any open-source, foundation, or custom AI model, including Clarifai's own, across Vultr's extensive GPU lineup, such as AMD Instinct ™ MI300X, MI325X, and NVIDIA HGX ™ B200, HGX ™ H100, A100 PCIe, and L40S. This allows optimization for performance, power efficiency, or cost, supporting AI workloads from inference to fine-tuning. Unified Compute Orchestration: Clarifai's compute orchestration allows deploying any model in a secure, scalable, containerized environment managed via a single interface. Models are deployed across Vultr resources using managed Kubernetes clusters or bare metal servers, with dynamic provisioning and automatic scaling via Vultr Kubernetes Engine (VKE). Built-in governance provides centralized visibility over performance, cost, and access, simplifying AI operations and improving efficiency. Edge AI Capabilities: Clarifai's edge AI platform enables deploying lightweight, high-performance models directly to edge devices, including air-gapped and offline environments. Combined with Vultr's global footprint of 32 data center regions reaching 90% of the global population with low latency (2-40 ms), this delivers real-time intelligence at the data source. This is particularly valuable for use cases like predictive maintenance, industrial quality control, public safety, and content moderation. "Our partnership with Clarifai is exactly what the Vultr Cloud Alliance is all about—bringing together best-of-breed technologies to give customers real choice, real performance, and real value. Clarifai's full-stack AI platform paired with Vultr's global GPU infrastructure means organizations can build and deploy AI models faster, scale efficiently, and reduce cost. It's a practical, high-impact solution for teams looking to take control of their AI workloads—whether in the cloud, at the edge, or across hybrid environments." said Kevin Cochrane, Chief Marketing Officer, Vultr. Joint solutions are applicable across various industries, including: Energy, Aerospace, and Manufacturing: Implement predictive maintenance and improve asset management using AI for visual inspection, edge AI, and global infrastructure. Media and Entertainment: Accelerate AI workloads for content moderation, metadata generation, and asset management on GPU instances. Leverage real-time image, video, and document analysis and state-of-the-art AI models for full motion video and sports analytics. Defense and Public Safety: Deploy AI models for security surveillance, object detection, and domain awareness in secure, air-gapped, or edge environments. Organizations ready to enhance their AI deployments can get started today at preferential pricing. Reserve their GPU cluster via: For more information on the Vultr Cloud Alliance, visit here. About Clarifai Clarifai is a global leader in AI and the pioneer of the full-stack AI lifecycle and orchestration platform that helps organizations create and control AI workloads on any environment with a unified platform. With over a decade of experience supporting millions of custom models and billions of operations for the largest enterprises and governments, Clarifai pioneered compute innovations like custom scheduling, batching, GPU fractioning, and autoscaling. Clarifai empowers users to efficiently run any model, anywhere, at any scale. Learn more at About Vultr Vultr is on a mission to make high-performance cloud infrastructure easy to use, affordable, and locally accessible for enterprises and AI innovators around the world. Vultr is trusted by hundreds of thousands of active customers across 185 countries for its flexible, scalable, global Cloud Compute, Cloud GPU, Bare Metal, and Cloud Storage solutions. Founded by David Aninowsky and self-funded for over a decade, Vultr has grown to become the world's largest privately held cloud infrastructure company. Learn more at
Business Wire
13-05-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
Vultr Deploys New AMD EPYC™ 4005 Series Processors to Deliver Easy-to-Use, Low-Cost Systems for Growing Businesses
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Vultr, the world's largest privately-held cloud infrastructure company, today announced that it is one of the first cloud providers to offer the new AMD EPYC™ 4005 Series processors. The AMD EPYC 4005 Series processors will be available on the Vultr platform, enabling enterprise-class features and leading performance for businesses and hosted IT service providers. The AMD EPYC 4005 Series processors extend the broad AMD EPYC processor family, powering a new line of cost-effective systems designed for growing businesses and hosted IT services providers that demand performance, advanced technologies, energy efficiency, and affordability. Servers featuring the high-performance AMD EPYC 4005 Series CPUs with streamlined memory and I/O feature sets are designed to deliver compelling system price-to-performance metrics on key customer workloads. Meanwhile, the combination of up to 16 SMT-capable cores and DDR5 memory in the AMD EPYC 4005 Series processors enables smooth execution of business-critical workloads, while maintaining the thermal and power efficiency characteristics crucial for affordable compute environments. 'Vultr is committed to delivering the most advanced cloud infrastructure with unrivaled price-to-performance,' said J.J. Kardwell, CEO of Vultr. 'The AMD EPYC 4005 Series provides straightforward deployment, scalability, high clock speed, energy efficiency, and best-in-class performance. Whether you are a business striving to scale reliably or a developer crafting the next groundbreaking innovation, these solutions are designed to deliver exceptional value and meet demanding requirements now and in the future.' Vultr's launch of systems featuring the AMD EPYC 4245P and AMD EPYC 4345P processors will expand the company's robust line of Bare Metal solutions. Vultr will also feature the AMD EPYC 4345P as part of its High Frequency Compute (HFC) offerings for organizations requiring the highest clock speeds and access to locally-attached NVMe storage. 'We designed the AMD EPYC 4005 Series CPUs with our system partners in mind, creating a processor that enables them to develop differentiated, cost-effective enterprise solutions,' said Derek Dicker, Corporate Vice President, Enterprise and HPC Business, AMD. 'The memory and I/O feature sets, combined with our latest 'Zen 5' architecture, give our technology partners the flexibility to create powerful yet affordable systems that meet the specific needs of growing businesses and dedicated hosters.' AMD is a member of the Vultr Cloud Alliance, a composable ecosystem of best-of-breed technology partners delivering integrated solutions and services for cloud computing. The AMD EPYC 4005 Series joins Vultr's other AMD offerings, which include the AMD EPYC 9004 Series, the AMD EPYC 7003 Series, and the AMD Instinct MI325X and MI300X GPUs. To learn more about the AMD and Vultr partnership, visit us here and contact sales to get started. About Vultr Vultr is on a mission to make high-performance cloud infrastructure easy to use, affordable, and locally accessible for enterprises and AI innovators around the world. Vultr is trusted by hundreds of thousands of active customers across 185 countries for its flexible, scalable, global Cloud Compute, Cloud GPU, Bare Metal, and Cloud Storage solutions. Founded by David Aninowsky and self-funded for over a decade, Vultr has grown to become the world's largest privately held cloud infrastructure company. Learn more at:
National Post
13-05-2025
- Business
- National Post
Vultr Deploys New AMD EPYC™ 4005 Series Processors to Deliver Easy-to-Use, Low-Cost Systems for Growing Businesses
Article content Article content WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Vultr, the world's largest privately-held cloud infrastructure company, today announced that it is one of the first cloud providers to offer the new AMD EPYC™ 4005 Series processors. The AMD EPYC 4005 Series processors will be available on the Vultr platform, enabling enterprise-class features and leading performance for businesses and hosted IT service providers. Article content The AMD EPYC 4005 Series processors extend the broad AMD EPYC processor family, powering a new line of cost-effective systems designed for growing businesses and hosted IT services providers that demand performance, advanced technologies, energy efficiency, and affordability. Servers featuring the high-performance AMD EPYC 4005 Series CPUs with streamlined memory and I/O feature sets are designed to deliver compelling system price-to-performance metrics on key customer workloads. Meanwhile, the combination of up to 16 SMT-capable cores and DDR5 memory in the AMD EPYC 4005 Series processors enables smooth execution of business-critical workloads, while maintaining the thermal and power efficiency characteristics crucial for affordable compute environments. Article content 'Vultr is committed to delivering the most advanced cloud infrastructure with unrivaled price-to-performance,' said J.J. Kardwell, CEO of Vultr. 'The AMD EPYC 4005 Series provides straightforward deployment, scalability, high clock speed, energy efficiency, and best-in-class performance. Whether you are a business striving to scale reliably or a developer crafting the next groundbreaking innovation, these solutions are designed to deliver exceptional value and meet demanding requirements now and in the future.' Article content Vultr's launch of systems featuring the AMD EPYC 4245P and AMD EPYC 4345P processors will expand the company's robust line of Bare Metal solutions. Vultr will also feature the AMD EPYC 4345P as part of its High Frequency Compute (HFC) offerings for organizations requiring the highest clock speeds and access to locally-attached NVMe storage. Article content 'We designed the AMD EPYC 4005 Series CPUs with our system partners in mind, creating a processor that enables them to develop differentiated, cost-effective enterprise solutions,' said Derek Dicker, Corporate Vice President, Enterprise and HPC Business, AMD. 'The memory and I/O feature sets, combined with our latest 'Zen 5' architecture, give our technology partners the flexibility to create powerful yet affordable systems that meet the specific needs of growing businesses and dedicated hosters.' Article content AMD is a member of the Vultr Cloud Alliance, a composable ecosystem of best-of-breed technology partners delivering integrated solutions and services for cloud computing. The AMD EPYC 4005 Series joins Vultr's other AMD offerings, which include the AMD EPYC 9004 Series, the AMD EPYC 7003 Series, and the AMD Instinct MI325X and MI300X GPUs. Article content Vultr is on a mission to make high-performance cloud infrastructure easy to use, affordable, and locally accessible for enterprises and AI innovators around the world. Vultr is trusted by hundreds of thousands of active customers across 185 countries for its flexible, scalable, global Cloud Compute, Cloud GPU, Bare Metal, and Cloud Storage solutions. Founded by David Aninowsky and self-funded for over a decade, Vultr has grown to become the world's largest privately held cloud infrastructure company. Article content Article content Article content Contacts Article content Article content
