Performance & Scalability of HBv4 and HX-Series VMs with Genoa-X CPUs

Article contributed by Amirreza Rastegari, Jon Shelley, Scott Moe, Jie Zhang, Jithin Jose, Anshul Jain, Jyothi Venkatesh, Joe Greenseid, Fanny Ou, and Evan Burness Azure has announced the general availability of Azure HBv4-series and HX-series virtual machines (VMs) for high performance computing (HPC). This blog provides in-depth technical and performance…

13/06/2023Azure High Performance Computing (HPC) Blog

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