C3D VMs are optimized to provide consistent performance and maintenance experience with minimal disruptions for general-purpose workloads that can’t tolerate performance variance. These are oftentimes workloads that are end-user facing, interactive, low-latency, or business-critical, including: web, app, and ad servers, databases and caches, streaming applications, or data analytics.
C3D scales up to 360 vCPUs and 2.8 TB of DDR5 memory across three memory configurations: highcpu (2GB/vCPU), standard (4GB/vCPU) and highmem (8GB/vCPU), with up to 12TB of Local SSD on the standard configuration.
Powered by Titanium
C3D VMs are built on Titanium, Google’s system of purpose-built custom silicon, security microcontrollers, and tiered scale-out offloads. The end result is better performance, lifecycle management, reliability, and security for your workloads. Titanium enables C3D to deliver up to 200 Gbps of fully encrypted networking, 3x faster packet-processing capabilities than prior generation VMs, up to 350,000 IOPS and 5 GB/s throughput with Hyperdisk Extreme (see below), near-bare-metal consistent performance, integrated maintenance updates for the majority of workloads, and advanced controls for the more sensitive workloads.
Hyperdisk storage
Hyperdisk is the latest generation of block storage in Google Cloud. Hyperdisk leverages Titanium to deliver significantly higher levels of performance, flexibility, and efficiency by decoupling storage processing from the virtual machine host. With Hyperdisk, you can dynamically scale storage performance and capacity independently to efficiently meet the storage I/O needs of data-intensive workloads such as data analytics and databases. Now, you don’t have to choose expensive, large compute instances just to get higher storage performance.
Certified for SAP NetWeaver
C3D VMs are certified by SAP to run SAP NetWeaver and SAP workloads on non-SAP HANA databases. SAP NetWeaver is the foundation layer for deploying, managing, and scaling SAP’s enterprise applications, including: SAP S/4HANA, SAP Business Suite (ERP, CRM, SCM, SRM), SAP Business Warehouse, SAP BW4/HANA, and SAP Solution. For more information on the SAP certification, visit: Certifications for SAP applications on Google Cloud and Google Cloud Certification SAP Note 2456432 (login required).
Accelerated performance for AI workloads
The 4th Generation AMD EPYC™ processors support AVX-512 with bfloat16, Vector Neural Network Instruction (VNNI) extensions and high-performance DDR5 memory that’s 50% faster than DDR4. These features allow for acceleration of AI inference on CPUs for common deep-learning use cases. You can take advantage of C3D’s features and further improve performance when using an inference runtime such as Neural Magic’s DeepSparse. Based on Google internal benchmarking, natural language models such as BERT and YOLO saw 2x higher throughput, and computer vision models such as ResNet saw 3x higher throughput on C3D with DeepSparse over N2D, as of October 2023.
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