The c2d-highmem-8 is a gcp compute instance type featuring multiple vCPUs and optimized memory, commonly used for compute workloads.
| Compute | Value |
| vCPUs | 8 |
| Instance | vCPUs | Memory |
|---|---|---|
| c2d-highcpu-2 | 2 | 4 |
| c2d-highmem-2 | 2 | 16 |
| c2d-standard-2 | 2 | 8 |
| c2d-highcpu-4 | 4 | 8 |
| c2d-highmem-4 | 4 | 32 |
| c2d-standard-4 | 4 | 16 |
| c2d-highcpu-8 | 8 | 16 |
| c2d-highmem-8 | 8 | 64 |
| c2d-standard-8 | 8 | 32 |
| c2d-highcpu-16 | 16 | 32 |
| c2d-highmem-16 | 16 | 128 |
| c2d-standard-16 | 16 | 64 |
| c2d-highcpu-32 | 32 | 64 |
| c2d-highmem-32 | 32 | 256 |
| c2d-standard-32 | 32 | 128 |
| c2d-highcpu-56 | 56 | 112 |
| c2d-highmem-56 | 56 | 448 |
| c2d-standard-56 | 56 | 224 |
| c2d-highcpu-112 | 112 | 224 |
| c2d-highmem-112 | 112 | 896 |
| c2d-standard-112 | 112 | 448 |
| Instance | vCPUs | Memory |
|---|---|---|
| c4a-highmem-8 | 8 | 64 |
| c3-highmem-8 | 8 | 64 |
| c3d-highmem-8 | 8 | 64 |
| c4a-highmem-8-lssd | 8 | 64 |
| c3d-highmem-8-lssd | 8 | 64 |

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