Graphcore Mk2 IPUs are now available to run customer workloads through specialist AI cloud provider Cirrascale. This is the first publicly available Mk2 IPU-POD technology, though Graphcore’s Mk1 product was available to selected customers as part of Microsoft’s Azure cloud offering. Graphcore hopes the new cloud offering will help customers scale from experimentation, proof of concept and pilot projects to larger production systems.
US cloud compute provider Cirrascale specializes in compute for AI applications in autonomous vehicle research and infrastructure, medical imaging, and natural language processing.