c4a-highcpu-48 by Google Cloud Platform

A compute-optimized virtual machine featuring forty-eight dedicated cores and a lean memory profile for highly parallelized processing workloads.

Google Cloud Platform c4a-highcpu-48 is a compute-optimized virtual machine instance from the c4a family, featuring 48 dedicated vCPUs built on the x86_64 architecture. The instance is equipped with 96.0 GB of system memory, providing a resource ratio of 2.0 GB of RAM per core. It does not include local storage or GPU accelerators, relying entirely on network-attached storage for data persistence, and does not provide complimentary public IPv4 addresses. This hardware profile is designed for compute-heavy workloads that require substantial processing power without the overhead of a large memory footprint. The lean memory-to-CPU ratio makes it a qualitatively cost-efficient option for highly parallelized tasks. Appropriate workloads for this instance include batch processing, distributed compute tasks, and high-performance web serving.