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BobbyJ10
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Oct 29, 2020

Monte Carlo Simulations using Durable Azure Functions

Apologies, this question is rather general as I still need to get around prototyping this, but you experts may have a good feel for whether it's feasible or not, and where issues may crop up 🙂   ...
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BobbyJ10
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Oct 29, 2020

Thank you for the advice and standard approaches CloudyRyan, I'll be sure to check how problem size affects performance when I look into it the Azure Function use case.

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AnthonyChu
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Oct 29, 2020

BobbyJ10 There are a couple ways to approach this. If the simulations can run as an Azure Function, Durable Functions can be a good way to orchestrate them as activity functions. There are some settings that you might need to change to make a CPU-bound workload scale properly.

 

We've also seen customers use Durable Functions to orchestrate workloads running in Batch or Container Instances. That's a good route to go if you need to coordinate compute to do large batches of work.

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    BobbyJ10
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    Oct 29, 2020

    Thanks AnthonyChu, it's really great that you can chain these services together in this manner. Will keep all of this is mind when I start taking a look into it.

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