What is pros and cons of CycleCloud vs Azure Batch when it comes to HPC?

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Hi everyone,As you know there are some different ways to run a HPC on Azure.Azure Batch and CycleCloud are 2 good option.&nbsp;But what makes them different from each other?&nbsp;To put it another way, what's better and when it's better?

nickysandhu · Answer

One large and overlooked cost is that cycle cloud encourages use of disk even after simulation is complete which can be a huge ongoing cost even if the compute nodes are done.Batch forces one to think about moving the simulation data to cheaper storage blobs and then mounting or copying when required to disk

karlpodesta · Answer

Hi&nbsp;Khoi Thinh&nbsp;- does this image help?
 CycleCloud creates HPC clusters that have third party industry standard schedulers included (E.g. Slurm or LSF cluster). &nbsp;It’s mostly aimed at traditional Linux HPC admins. Batch is mostly aimed at developers, folks building a capability into their own product or service, and it includes its own scheduler to run jobs. Both Batch and CycleCloud create sets of VMs to run your application, but use different schedulers and interfaces.&nbsp;
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mkbane_mmu · Answer

Thanks&nbsp;karlpodesta&nbsp;Can you give me reference for original of the image.Further, how do the costs vary between Cycle &amp; Batch (for sporadic use of say 10 HPC nodes)?m

mkbane_mmu · Answer

I see also a deeper dive is athttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/topics/high-performance-computingI'm still interested to hear regarding relative costing (I can give a more detailed example if you wish). m

anhoward · Answer

The original image came from some slide decks we use for customer conversations. For relative costing, if you can provide more detail that would be great. Batch and CycleCloud are both free to use, you only pay for the compute/networking/storage.

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