Cloud Run Adds GPUs

Cloud Run, the scale-to-zero, fully-managed container platform on Google Cloud, adds GPUs as a public preview.

Here's the summary:

Specs

• One NVIDIA L4 GPU (24GB vRAM) per Cloud Run instance (many instances per Cloud Run service).
• Drivers are pre-installed.
• Minimum instance size to enable GPU is 4 vCPU and 16 GiB memory.

Use Cases

• Open large language models up to 13B parameters run great, including: Gemma 2 (9B), Llama 3.1 (8B), Mistral (7B), Qwen2 (7B).
• Here's my tutorial: Run LLM inference on Cloud Run GPUs with Ollama.
• Explore Niko's excellent OpenCV CUDA accelerated demo.

Autoscaling

• Scale to zero: When there are no incoming requests, Cloud Run stops all remaining instances and you’re not charged.
• Fast cold start: When scaling from zero, processes in the container can use the GPU in approximately 5 seconds. You can get Gemma 2 (2B, Q4_0) to return tokens after 11 seconds (best case).
• Maximum instances: Defaults to 7, and there is a quota increase available.
• Scale out speed: During the launch event, Frank showed a service that generated images with Stable Diffusion. He scaled out the service to 100 GPU instances in under 4 minutes (watch the demo).

Allow List During Public Preview

During public preview, access is gated to ensure good quality of service. Link to request access: g.co/cloudrun/gpu

Regions

• Today: us-central1
• Later: europe-west4 (Netherlands) and asia-southeast1 (Singapore)

Links

• A playlist with impressive demos (youtube.com)
• Launch blog (cloud.google.com)
• Launch event livestream recording (youtube.com)
• Tutorial: Run LLM inference on Cloud Run GPUs with Ollama (cloud.google.com/run/docs)
• Codelab: Run LLM inference on Cloud Run GPUs with vLLM (codelabs.developers.google.com)
• OpenCV CUDA accelerated demo (github.com)

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