Introducing Azure CycleCloud Slurm Workspace (Preview)

A new way to create and manage CycleCloud Slurm clusters on Azure Slurm is one of the most popular and widely used open-source workload managers for AI/HPC and cloud computing. Slurm enables users to run large-scale parallel and distributed applications across a set of compute nodes, and provides features such…

04/06/2024Azure High Performance Computing (HPC) Blog

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