Intel partners with Google Cloud to accelerate the latest virtual machines.

Intel announced on the 30th that Google Cloud has released a public preview of the computing engine N2 machine family equipped with 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors (codename: Ice Lake).

Google Cloud's N2 Virtual Machines (VMs) provide 30% improved price-performance across various workloads compared to the previous generation.

N2 VM is scalable according to workloads such as web and app services, enterprise applications, medium to large databases, caching, media transcoding streaming, and gaming servers, providing balanced performance and cost savings.

The latest Google Cloud N2 Machine family leverages many artificial intelligence (AI) and cryptography acceleration engines powered by 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors to improve overall performance as follows:

Intel® Crypto Acceleration engines enhance data protection and privacy by improving the performance of encryption-intensive workloads such as SSL web services, 5G infrastructure, and VPNs/firewalls, while reducing the performance impact of pervasive encryption.

Intel® DeeperIntel® DL Boost provides the flexibility to run complex AI workloads on the central processing unit and improves inference performance by maximizing computing resource usage, increasing cache utilization, and reducing potential bandwidth bottlenecks.

Intel® AVX-512 (Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 512) improves performance and throughput for the most demanding computing tasks in applications such as modeling and simulation, data analysis and machine learning, data compression, visualization, and digital content creation.

Preview access to the latest N2 VMs powered by 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors is scheduled to be available in early Q4 2021. Further details regarding preview access can be obtained from a Google Cloud sales representative.