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‎articles/virtual-machines/sizes/fpga-accelerated/includes/np-series-specs.md

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title: NP-series specs include
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description: Include file containing specifications of NP-series VM sizes.
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services: virtual-machines
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author: mattmcinnes
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ms.date: 04/18/2024
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| Part | Quantity <br><sup>Count <sup>Units | Specs <br><sup>SKU ID, Performance <sup>Units</sup>, etc. |
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| Processor | 10 - 40<sup>vCores | Intel® Xeon® 8171M (Skylake) |
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| Memory | 168 - 672<sup>GiB | |
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| Data Disks | 8 - 32<sup>Disks | |
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| Network | 1 - 4<sup>NICs | 7500 - 30000<sup>Mbps |
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| Accelerators | 1 - 4 [Xilinx U250](https://www.xilinx.com/products/boards-and-kits/alveo/u250.html) | 64<sup>GiB </sup>/ FPGA |

‎articles/virtual-machines/sizes/fpga-accelerated/includes/np-series-summary.md

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title: NP-series summary include
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description: Include file containing a summary of the NP-series size family.
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The NP-series virtual machines are powered by Xilinx U250 FPGAs for accelerating workloads including machine learning inference, video transcoding, and database search & analytics. NP-series VMs are also powered by Intel Xeon 8171M (Skylake) CPUs with all core turbo clock speed of 3.2 GHz.

‎articles/virtual-machines/sizes/fpga-accelerated/np-family.md

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title: NP family VM size series
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description: Overview of the 'NP' family and sub families of virtual machine sizes
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author: mattmcinnes
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ms.service: virtual-machines
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# 'NP' family storage optimized VM size series
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**Applies to:** :heavy_check_mark: Linux VMs :heavy_check_mark: Windows VMs :heavy_check_mark: Flexible scale sets :heavy_check_mark: Uniform scale sets
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The 'NP' family of VM size series are one of Azure's storage-optimized VM instances. They're designed for workloads that require high disk throughput and I/O, such as databases, big data applications, and data warehousing. Equipped with high disk throughput and large local disk storage capacities, L-series VMs support applications and services that benefit from low latency and high sequential read and write speeds. This makes them particularly well-suited for handling tasks like large-scale log processing, real-time big data analytics, and scenarios involving large databases that perform frequent disk operations, ensuring efficient performance for storage-heavy applications.
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## Workloads and use cases
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**Real-Time Data Processing:** NP-family VMs excel in environments where data needs to be processed in real time with minimal latency, such as in financial trading, real-time analytics, and network data processing.
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**Custom AI and Machine Learning:** NP-family VMs are suitable for accelerating AI and machine learning inference tasks, where the FPGA can be programmed to execute specific algorithms sometimes faster than typical CPU or GPU-based solutions.
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**Genomics and Life Sciences:** NP-family VMs can significantly speed up genomic sequencing tasks and other life sciences applications that benefit from custom hardware acceleration.
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**Video Transcoding and Streaming:** FPGAs can be used to accelerate video processing tasks such as transcoding and real-time video streaming, optimizing performance and reducing processing times.
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**Signal Processing:** NP-family VMs are ideal for applications in telecommunications and signal processing where rapid manipulation and analysis of signals are necessary.
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**Database Acceleration:** NP-family VMs can enhance database operations, especially for custom search operations and large-scale database queries, by offloading these tasks to the FPGA.
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## Series in family
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### NP-series
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[!INCLUDE [np-series-summary](./includes/np-series-summary.md)]
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[View the full np-series page](../../np-series.md).
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[!INCLUDE [np-series-specs](./includes/np-series-specs.md)]

‎articles/virtual-machines/sizes/storage-optimized/includes/lasv3-series-specs.md

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| Part | Quantity <br><sup>Count <sup>Units | Specs <br><sup>SKU ID, Performance <sup>Units</sup>, etc. |
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| Processor | 8 - 80<sup>vCores | Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8370C (Ice Lake) |
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| Memory | 64 - 640<sup>GiB | |
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| Data Disks | 16 - 32<sup>Disks | 12800 - 3800000<sup>IOPS</sup> / 200 - 20000<sup>MBps |
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| Network | 4 - 8<sup>NICs | 12500 - 32000<sup>Mbps |
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| Accelerators | None | |

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The Lasv3-series of Azure Virtual Machines (Azure VMs) features high-throughput, low latency, directly mapped local NVMe storage. These VMs run on an AMD 3rd Generation EPYC™ 7763v processor in a multi-threaded configuration with an L3 cache of up to 256 MB that can achieve a boosted maximum frequency of 3.5 GHz. The Lasv3-series VMs are available in sizes from 8 to 80 vCPUs in a simultaneous multi-threading configuration. There are 8 GiB of memory per vCPU, and one 1.92 TB NVMe SSD device per 8 vCPUs, with up to 19.2 TB (10x1.92TB) available on the L80as_v3 size.

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| Part | Quantity <br><sup>Count <sup>Units | Specs <br><sup>SKU ID, Performance <sup>Units</sup>, etc. |
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| Processor | 8 - 80<sup>vCores | AMD EPYC<sup>TM</sup> 7551 |
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| Memory | 64 - 640<sup>GiB | |
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| Data Disks | 16 - 32<sup>Disks | 8000 - 3800000<sup>IOPS</sup> / 160 - 20000<sup>MBps |
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| Network | 2 - 8<sup>NICs | 3200 - 16000+<sup>Mbps |
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| Accelerators | None | |

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The Lsv2-series features high throughput, low latency, directly mapped local NVMe storage running on the AMD EPYC<sup>TM</sup> 7551 processor with an all core boost of 2.55GHz and a max boost of 3.0GHz. The Lsv2-series VMs come in sizes from 8 to 80 vCPU in a simultaneous multi-threading configuration. There is 8 GiB of memory per vCPU, and one 1.92TB NVMe SSD M.2 device per 8 vCPUs, with up to 19.2TB (10x1.92TB) available on the L80s v2.

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| Part | Quantity <br><sup>Count <sup>Units | Specs <br><sup>SKU ID, Performance <sup>Units</sup>, etc. |
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| Processor | 8 - 80<sup>vCores | Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8370C (Ice Lake) |
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| Memory | 64 - 640<sup>GiB | |
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| Data Disks | 16 - 32<sup>Disks | 12800 - 3800000<sup>IOPS</sup> / 290 - 20000<sup>MBps |
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| Network | 4 - 8<sup>NICs | 12500 - 32000<sup>Mbps |
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| Accelerators | None | |

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The Lsv3-series of Azure Virtual Machines (Azure VMs) features high-throughput, low latency, directly mapped local NVMe storage. These VMs run on the 3rd Generation Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8370C (Ice Lake) processor in a hyper-threaded configuration. This new processor features an all-core turbo clock speed of 3.5 GHz with Intel® Turbo Boost Technology, Intel® Advanced-Vector Extensions 512 (Intel® AVX-512) and Intel® Deep Learning Boost. The Lsv3-series VMs are available in sizes from 8 to 80 vCPUs. There are 8 GiB of memory allocated per vCPU, and one 1.92TB NVMe SSD device allocated per 8 vCPUs, with up to 19.2TB (10x1.92TB) available on the L80s_v3 size.

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description: Overview of the 'L' family and sub families of virtual machine sizes
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# 'L' family storage optimized VM size series
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## Workloads and use cases
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**Big Data Applications:** L-family VMs are perfect for big data applications that need to process, analyze, and manipulate large datasets stored directly on local disks, benefiting from the high I/O performance.
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**Database Servers:** L-family VMs provide the necessary local disk performance for SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and other database servers that benefit from fast access to disk storage.
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**File Servers:** L-family VMs can be used effectively as file servers within a network, handling large files and serving them with high throughput, especially useful in environments with large media files.
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**Video Editing and Rendering:** The high disk throughput and capacity of L-family VMs are beneficial for video editing and rendering tasks, where large video files are frequently read and written to disk.
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[!INCLUDE [lsv2-series-summary](./includes/lsv2-series-summary.md)]
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[View the full Lsv2-series page](../../lsv2-series.md).
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[!INCLUDE [lsv2-series-specs](./includes/lsv2-series-specs.md)]
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### Lsv3-series
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[!INCLUDE [lsv3-series-summary](./includes/lsv3-series-summary.md)]
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[!INCLUDE [lsv3-series-specs](./includes/lsv3-series-specs.md)]
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### Lasv3-series
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[!INCLUDE [lasv3-series-summary](./includes/lasv3-series-summary.md)]
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[Vew the full Lasv3-series page](../../lasv3-series.md).
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[!INCLUDE [lasv3-series-specs](./includes/lasv3-series-specs.md)]

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