Ramp up with me… on HPC: Understanding Virtual Machines, CPUs, and GPUs

There are a lot of different products you need to successfully complete a high-performance computing (HPC) workload. You’ll hear several terms regularly, like virtual machines, CPUs, GPUs, compute power, and compute constrained. While these are really important to talk about in high performance computing, they were difficult concepts for me…

31/08/2023Azure High Performance Computing (HPC) Blog

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