Accelerating the Intelligence Age with Azure AI Infrastructure and the GA of ND GB200 v6

Today we are thrilled to announce the General Availability of Azure’s latest AI infrastructure Virtual Machines, the ND GB200 v6. Azure is proud to be one of the first cloud service provider to launch a 4,000 NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell powered supercomputing cluster for training state of the art models…

18/03/2025Azure High Performance Computing (HPC) Blog

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