Scaling Up in the Cloud: The WEKA Data Platform and Azure HPC Windows Grid Integration

Co-Written with Erik Garcia, WEKA Director of Cloud Sales, Brian Markenson, WEKA System Engineer, & Adam Fowler, WEKA System Engineer High Performance Compute (HPC) grids in the Financial Services Industry are unique within the HPC industry as they feature Windows-based workloads more than any other. In that many existing HPC Storage platforms…

28/02/2024Azure High Performance Computing (HPC) Blog

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