Google Cloud flexes as first to host Nvidia RTX PRO 6000 Server VMs

Google Cloud on Wednesday celebrated the debut of virtual machines incorporating Nvidia's latest Blackwell GPU technology, claiming to be the first cloud provider to sell this particular offering.

Nirav Mehta, VP of Google Cloud Compute Platform, and Roy Kim, Director of Google Cloud AI Infrastructure, shared word that G4 VMs based on Nvidia RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition are coming soon.

"The G4 VM can power a variety of workloads, from cost-efficient inference, to advanced physical AI, robotics simulations, generative AI-enabled content creation, and next-generation game rendering," said Mehta and Kim in a blog post.

Google Cloud's virtualized version incorporates eight Nvidia RTX PRO 6000 GPUs, two AMD Turin CPUs, and Google Titanium offload processors.

Announced at Nvidia GTC this spring, the PCIe-based RTX Pro 6000 Server Edition is the spiritual successor to Nvidia’s aging L40 and L40S and is aimed at a combination of AI ...