Announcing Azure HBv5 Virtual Machines: A Breakthrough in Memory Bandwidth for HPC

The next generation of purpose-built HPC Azure virtual machines Today during Microsoft Ignite, Satya Nadella unveiled our latest CPU-based virtual machine for HPC customers and their applications, Azure HBv5. This new virtual machine (VM) is optimized for the most memory bandwidth-intensive HPC applications, such as computational fluid dynamics, automotive and…

19/11/2024Azure High Performance Computing (HPC) Blog

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