Join Azure HPC at Supercomputing 2019

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Article contributed by Kevin Raines, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Azure.

For the 31^st time, the researchers and practitioners that make up the high-performance computing (HPC) community will come together for their annual event. Numbering in excess of 12,000, this global community will converge on Denver, Colorado next week to once again establish and advance the state-of-the-art in HPC. The theme for SC19 is “HPC is now” - a theme that resonates strongly with the Azure High-Performance Computing Team given our momentum with customers and breakthrough capabilities.

Azure is upending preconceptions of what the cloud can do for HPC by delivering supercomputer-grade technologies, innovative services, and price/performance that rivals or exceeds even the most optimized on-premises deployments. The era of on-premises supremacy in HPC is officially over, and Azure is paving the way for a new era of innovation, research, and productivity.

We will showcase solutions from Azure HPC as well as partners in our booth (#633).

Come see our booth

During SC’19, we will be showcasing the following solutions at pods in our booth:

• Massive Scale MPI: Solve problems at the limits of your application, not the limits of other public cloud’s commodity network. Azure supports your tightly coupled workloads up to 80,000 cores per job featuring the latest HPC-grade CPUs and ultra-low latency InfiniBand HDR networking.
• Accelerated Compute: Choose from the latest GPUs, FPGAs, and now IPUs for maximum performance and flexibility across your HPC, AI and visualization workloads.
• Apps and Services: Leverage advanced software and storage for every scenario – from hybrid cloud to cloud migration; from POCs to production; from optimized persistent deployments to agile environment reconfiguration – Azure HPC software has you covered.
• Azure HPC: Speak with Azure HPC experts about leveraging Azure’s array of HPC resources to advance your research and productivity.
• Partner Showcase: Featuring representation from a broad and deep HPC partner ecosystem.
• Microsoft Theater: Come see sessions from Microsoft and our partners. The theater scheduled is listed at the bottom of the blog.

Join us at the Microsoft booth to learn more about these offerings.

Booth Theater Sessions

	MONDAY 11/18	TUESDAY 11/19	WEDNESDAY 11/20	THURSDAY 11/21
10:30 AM		Run Your Most Demanding Enterprise File Workloads with Azure NetApp Files – by NetApp	Navigating HPC Cloud Migration: Best Practices and Beyond – by Univa	The Intersection of HPC, Quantitative Finance, and FPGAS on Azure – by Xilinx
11:00 AM		Location Agnostic Data for High Performance Computing Using AMD Epyc in Azure – by AMD	Microsoft Azure and NVIDIA: Bringing AI, High Performance Computing, and Graphics Visualization to Enterprises – by NVIDIA	FPGAs To Accelerate ML for Particle Physics   – by Fermilab
11:30 AM		Fluid Dynamics in Azure at Scale, for Real HPC People – by Microsoft	Azure Machine Learning – by Microsoft	Azure Storage for Cloud HPC – by Microsoft
12:00 PM		Turnkey Supercomputing on Azure is Now Real: Explore Unlimited Possibilities with Rescale’s Scalex On Azure – by Rescale	Harnessing the Scalability of the Cloud to Accelerate Library Characterization – by Mentor Graphics	Running a GPU Burst for Multi-Messenger Astrophysics with IceCube Across all Available GPUs in the Cloud   – by UC San Diego
12:30 PM		Cloudbank: Managed Services to Simplify Cloud Access for Computer Science Research and Education - by UC San Diego
1:00 PM		Hybrid Cloud Bursting on Microsoft Azure Platform Through Altair Access™ Desktop – by Altair	Supercomputing Scale and Performance of ANSYS Fluent on Azure – by ANSYS
1:30 PM		Improving Bing Web Search With Deep Learning Inference On Azure N-Series GPUs – by Microsoft	Improving Bing Web Search with Deep Learning Inference on Azure N-Series GPUs – by Microsoft
2:00 PM		Mellanox HDR 200 GB/S InfiniBand: Connecting Visions with Microsoft Azure – by Mellanox	TotalCAE Fully Managed HPC Platform on Azure. Democratizing HPC Engineering Simulation for SMB – by TotalCAE
2:30 PM		Fully Managed HPC Workloads with Azure Batch – by Microsoft	Achieving High Performance on Microsoft Azure HPC Cloud Using MVAPICH2 – by DK Panda
3:00 PM		Why Moving Large Scale, Extremely I/O Intensive HPC Applications to Microsoft Azure is NOW Possible – by Cray	Innovation in Machine Intelligence with the Graphcore IPU: A Case Study – by Graphcore
3:30 PM		Creating Impact Today with Azure Quantum – by Quantum
4:00 PM		Cloud Visualization Simplifies Cloud Based Simulation and Large Data Set Processing – by Workspot	Using HPC on Azure Cloud for Scaling Out Chip Design Workloads – by Synopsys
4:30 PM		Azure Storage for Cloud HPC – by Microsoft	Using HPC Cache to Reduce Latency – by Microsoft
5:00 PM		Reproducible Science with Containers on HPC Through Singularity – by Sylabs	Moving Digital Manufacturing to the Cloud – by UberCloud
7:30 PM	Connecting HPC Workloads to Intel In Azure Cloud – by Intel
8:00 PM	Creating Impact Today with Azure Quantum – by Quantum
8:30 PM	High Performance Remote Workstations Transforming Big Data to Azure – by Teradici

Microsoft Participation @SC’19

Pre-Event Presentation

HP Cast – SATURDAY 11/16 (12:00 – 12:30 AM): Supercomputing in Microsoft Azure – Rob Walsh, Microsoft; Joseph George, Cray

	MONDAY 11/18	TUESDAY 11/19	WEDNESDAY 11/20	THURSDAY 11/21	FRIDAY 11/22
08:30 AM					Quantum Inspired vs. Quantum Computing – What Next? Matthias Troyer, Torsten Hoefler, Helmut Katzgraber, Andrew Fursman, Daniel Lidar, Scott Pakin, Eleanor Rieffel, Andrew King
09:00 AM
10:00 AM
10:30 AM
11:00 AM
11:30 AM		Altair Booth: Powering Crash Applications: Altair Radioss™ in the Microsoft® Azure Cloud Eric Lequiniou and Jon Shelley -------------------- 11:30 – 12:00: Paper SparCML: High-Performance Sparse Communication for Machine Learning Mehdi Aghagolzadeh
12:00 PM
12:30 PM				Intel Booth: Accelerating HPC and BigData workloads on Intel-powered Azure HPC Clusters Jithin Jose
1:00 PM		OSU Booth: MVAPICH2 on Azure Jithin Jose
1:30 PM				NVIDIA Booth #901: Accelerating HPC at Supercomputing scale on Microsoft Azure using GPUs Ian Finder
2:00 PM	2:00 – 2:40: Workshop A House Divided: Why Don't Cloud Storage and HPC Storage Share More Technology? Evan Burness
2:30 PM
3:00 PM
3:30 PM
4:00 PM
4:30 PM
5:00 PM		5:15 – 6:45 PM: BoF Cloud Federation for Large-Scale Collaborations Zion Brewer	5:15 – 6:45 PM: BoF Reconfigurable/FPGA Clusters for High Performance Computing Andrew Putman 5:15 - 5:45 PM: MPICH BoF: MSMPI Updates Jithin Jose
6:30 PM			Mellanox Booth Nidhi Chappell on stage
7:30 PM
8:00 PM	Mellanox Booth Evan Burness, Jithin Jose
8:30 PM