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Last month we first announced ND MI300X v5 virtual machines (VMs) and talked about how they were the culmination of a long-term partnership between Microsoft and AMD. We also talked about…
Introduction This blog post walks through how to setup an Azure Managed Lustre Filesystem (AMLFS) that will automatically synchronise to an Azure BLOB Storage container. The synchronisation is achieved using the Lustre…
Generative AI promises to revolutionize how we live, work and play. This, as with prior technology innovations, have all been developed on increasingly complex, high-performance semiconductor platforms and systems. As…
Today at Ignite, Microsoft is announcing the public preview of the NC H100 v5 Virtual Machine Series, the latest addition to our portfolio of purpose-built infrastructure for High Performance Computing (HPC) and Artificial Intelligence…
In our relentless pursuit of pushing the boundaries of artificial intelligence, we understand that cutting-edge infrastructure and expertise is needed to harness the full potential of advanced AI. At Microsoft,…
Overview Azure CycleCloud is an enterprise-friendly tool for orchestrating and managing High Performance Computing (HPC) environments on Azure. With CycleCloud, users can provision infrastructure for HPC systems, deploy familiar…
The Azure family of visualization GPU VMs has gained a new member. Many customers have used the VMs in our existing portfolio for a variety of visualization workloads as well…
Introduction Containers technologies are no longer something new in the industry. It all started focusing on how to deploy reproducible development environments but now you can find many other fields…
In the cloud computing world, infrastructure-as-code (IaC) refers to the practice of managing and provisioning infrastructure through code. As someone with a development background, this is my preferred alternative to manually provisioning…
Come visit Microsoft at Supercomputing 2023 (SC23) November 12 – 17 where we’ll deep dive into high-performance computing (HPC) and AI solutions during an exciting week of sessions, hands on experiences and…
Understanding Azure Batch for HPC Azure Batch is a cloud-based service provided by Microsoft Azure that's designed to handle HPC workloads efficiently. It's known for its simplicity and versatility,…
Profiling AI/ML models is a pivotal step in harnessing the full potential of computational resources, especially when deploying on high-performance platforms like single/multi-GPUs. This process delves deep into the model's…
Azure CycleCloud allows the creation of resources to run High Performance Computing (HPC) applications based on widely used job schedulers such as PBS, SLURM, and LSF. Once CycleCloud is installed,…
There is a known behaviour in Lustre if a VM has the Lustre mounted and it gets evicted or deleted as part of workflow without releasing the filesystem lock. Lustre…
Azure Managed Lustre delivers the time-tested Lustre file system as a first-party managed service on Azure. Long-time users of Lustre on-premises can now leverage the benefits of a complete HPC solution,…
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…
Introduction In the realm of high-performance computing (HPC) and AI workloads, the need for agile and powerful storage solutions cannot be overstated. Azure Managed Lustre (AMLFS) has emerged as a…
Image courtesy of Altair The world of high-performance computing (HPC) and simulation just got a major boost as Altair® Unlimited™, the state-of-the-art virtual private cloud appliance, has become available on…
Lustre has long been the gold standard for extreme performance and scalability amongst parallel file systems used in HPC. The open-source community has continually improved Lustre features and performance to…
Overview: This blog discusses how easily we can integrate Azure Managed Lustre Filesystem into CycleCloud HPC cluster using a custom project named cyclecloud-amlfs. Azure Managed Lustre delivers the time-tested Lustre file…
Azure Managed Lustre Lustre is an open-source parallel filesystem born for high performance computing as a research project back in 1999. Its name is the fusion of Linux and cluster,…
By Hugo Affaticati (Technical Program Manager), Sonal Doomra (Technical Program Manager 2), and Jon Shelley (Principal TPM Manager). Introduction Azure is pleased to showcase results from our MLPerf Training…
One is deploying an HPC embarrassingly parallel application in Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSSs) and realized that (i) ssh into VM instances is possible even when they have not…
Introduction In a previous blog post we showed how to deploy an optimal NDm_v4 AKS cluster, i.e. all 8 InfiniBand and GPU devices on each NDm_v4 are installed…
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…
1. Introduction: We are excited to share with you the latest benchmarks for Barracuda Virtual Reactor on the Azure NDv2 ('Standard_ND40rs_v2') and ND A100 v4 ('Standard_ND96asr_v4') virtual machines (VMs), accelerated by NVIDIA…
Introduction Today there is a lot of interest around generative AI, specifically training and inferencing large language models (OpenAI GPT4, DALL.E2), Git copilot, Azure OpenAI service). Training these large…
Az-HOP in the Azure Marketplace Introduction Azure HPC On-Demand Platform, or Az-HOP, provides an end-to-end deployment mechanism for a base HPC infrastructure on Azure. The platform includes a…
OpenFOAM (Open Field Operation and Manipulation) is an open-source computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software package. It provides a comprehensive set of tools for simulating and analyzing complex fluid flow and…
Azure offers access to 7 distinct VM categories, including Compute Optimized, Memory Optimized, and Accelerated Compute, comprising over 50 different families such as Fsv2-series, Edv4-series, and ND A100 v4-series. Each…
Like many others, I love animated films. Age no longer seems to be a factor in interest, rather people of all ages are enjoying these, and likewise studios now have…
In the world of CAE where time to market, cost and sustainability are critical parameters of success, our experts will inform you of the advances in the platform to help…
By: Rachel Pruitt, Product Marketing Manager, Azure HPC, AI Infrastructure When I first started my role in marketing for high performance computing (HPC), I knew very little about what…
Introduction: Microsoft announced many years ago that it will end support for its High-Performance Computing (HPC) Pack 2012 R2 on April 11th, 2023. This means that Microsoft will no longer…
Used in many industries, including engineering, mathematics, and finance, MatLab is a proprietary programming language and multi-paradigm numerical computing environment. With the increasing complexity of data analysis, simulation, and modeling…
Training large AI models on Azure using CycleCloud + Slurm In the past year generative AI models have leapt into common discourse through the popularity of text-to-image models and…
Authors: Amirreza Rastegari, Nihit Pokhrel, Nathan Baker, Jon Shelley Introduction: Nanoscale Molecular Dynamics (NAMD) is a molecular dynamics program designed for high-performance simulation of large biomolecular systems. The program…
Azure CycleCloud is an enterprise-friendly tool for orchestrating and managing High-Performance Computing (HPC) environments on Azure. With CycleCloud, users can provision infrastructure for HPC systems, deploy familiar HPC schedulers, and automatically scale…
Authors: Amirreza Rastegari, Jon Shelley Simcenter STAR-CCM+ is one of the most widely used computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation applications by high performance computing (HPC) customers in a variety…
