HPC on Redhat Linux images

While working with enterprise HPC teams, one of the often-heard questions is: how do we use InfiniBand or GPUs on Azure with Redhat Linux? Since Redhat does not provide hpc-enabled images at this moment, the best solution is to build your own image for this. To build your image close…

17/06/2025Azure High Performance Computing (HPC) Blog

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