Intel and Google Cloud Platform

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First Cloud Provider to offer Skylake — the latest Intel® Xeon® scalable processor

Google Cloud now offers the latest Intel® Xeon® scalable processor family. Skylake based instances on Google Cloud Platform deliver record breaking performance that can handle data-demanding and compute intensive business applications with up to 20% faster compute performance, up to 82% faster HPC performance and almost 2X more memory bandwidth.*

Google Cloud was the first cloud provider to offer Skylake, enabling Google Cloud customers to have early access to Intel’s latest technology.

Try it at no charge here**

* All measurements based on comparing GCP 32 vCPU machine type instances between Intel Xeon processor codenamed "Skylake" versus previous generation Intel Xeon processor codenamed "Broadwell." 20% based on SpecINT. 82% based on on High Performance Linpack for 4 node cluster with AVX512. Performance improvements include improvements from use of Math Kernal Library and Intel AVX512.. Performance tests are measured using specific computer systems, components, software, operations and functions, and may have been optimized for performance only on Intel microprocessors. Any change to any of those factors may cause the results to vary. You should consult other information to assist you in fully evaluating your contemplated purchases. For more information go to http://www.intel.com/benchmarks ** To help customers experience Skylake, we are offering Skylake VMs without an additional fee until July 30th, 2017. After this date, Skylake VMs will be priced at a 6-10% premium.

Benefits of using Intel's Xeon Scalable Processor (Skylake) on Google Cloud Platform

Faster response times for a wide range of workloads

Google Cloud customers have run millions of hours on Skylake machine types, seeing increased performance for a variety of applications such as 3D rendering, genomic research, HPC, financial risk calculations, scientific visualizations & data analytics.

Choose the best processor for your workload

Leverage the flexibility to choose the best processor for your workload needs with the CPU Platform selector tool. Select a specific Intel CPU platform, and Google Compute Engine will always schedule your machine type to that CPU family or above.

Double the floating point performance

Applications that take advantage of Intel AVX-512 in Skylake can benefit from up to 2X floating point performance in order to handle your most compute-intensive workloads.

Custom Machine Types

Leverage Google’s expertise in workload scheduling through Custom Machine Types. Size your machine types to existing workloads & efficiently schedule jobs and machine types of any size to avoid overpaying.

Per- Minute Billing

Run more, save more; up to 30% monthly discount automatically with Google Cloud Platform. Pay only for what you need while you are using it.

Worldwide Availability

Skylake now generally available in 4 Google Cloud regions: US-West, US-Central, Asia-East, Europe-West

“Bioinformatics App reported 2.2x speedup when running workloads tuned for AVX512 vs AVX2.”

- Zach Bjornson, Primity Bio

“Skylake runs our WRF-NMM weather model some 40 - 50% faster than the Haswell processors. A really significant improvement, even without any additional optimisations on our side.”

- Paul Michaelwaite, MBC Netweather Ltd

“I run box2d in my instances. I easily saw 30% to 35% increase in performance (from Skylake).”

- Sri Prasanth, Time Plus Q

Other Google Cloud + Intel Solutions Enabling Technology Innovation

Edge-to-Cloud Solutions on Google Cloud Platform: IoT

Together with our customers, Google Cloud and Intel are building IoT vertical solutions to drive business acceleration & solve complex business problems. Today’s IoT solutions deliver optimized edge-to-cloud capabilities targeting 3D image capture, logistics, and precision agriculture to deliver on the promise of IoT.

Work with Intel & Google Cloud on your Proof of Concept Skylake or IoT Solution today.

Create Faster Code Using Intel® Parallel Studio on Google Cloud Platform

Intel Parallel Studio XE is a software development suite that helps boost C++, Fortran, and Python application performance by taking advantage of the increased amount of vCPUs and Intel AVX 512 instructions available in Skylake. This toolset simplifies creating fast, reliable parallel code.

Intel® IoT Developer Kit and Google Cloud Platform

Collaboration between Intel and Google now provides developers with an expanded IoT toolset for development—from the edge to the cloud. With the Intel® IoT Developer Kit and the web-scale processing, analytics, and machine-learning capabilities of Google Cloud Platform, developers can quickly move from prototype to product, as well as easily scale to meet their growing data needs.

Get started using Intel® IoT Developer Kit and Google Cloud Platform today.

Additional Resources

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