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1,176

Deploy NDm_v4 (A100) Kubernetes Cluster

CormacGarvey on Jun 02 2023 10:55 PM
We show how to deploy an optimal NDm_v4 (A100) AKS cluster, making sure that all 8 GPU and 8 InfiniBand devices availabl...
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Az-HOP in the Azure Marketplace

pauledwards on May 24 2023 02:52 AM
Azure HPC On-Demand Platform, or Az-HOP, provides an end-to-end deployment mechanism for a base HPC infrastructure on Az...
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Running OpenFOAM simulations on Azure Batch

jangelfdez on May 12 2023 07:48 AM
OpenFOAM (Open Field Operation and Manipulation) is an open-source computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software package. ...
1,010

How to identify the recommended VM for your HPC workloads

jangelfdez on May 11 2023 04:19 AM
Azure offers access to 7 distinct VM categories, including Compute Optimized, Memory Optimized, and Accelerated Compute,...
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Ramp up with me... on HPC: What is Rendering?

RachelPruitt on May 04 2023 06:02 PM
New to learning about high performance computing (HPC) and want to know what Rendering is all about? Read the blog to ta...
1,838

Join Microsoft and NVIDIA at the NAFEMS World Congress in Tampa from 15th May – 18th May 2023

gauharj on Apr 25 2023 04:20 PM
Together we will showcase how to use the latest NVIDIA AI technologies on Microsoft Azure to supercharge your Computer A...
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Ramp up with me...on HPC: What is high-performance computing (HPC)?

RachelPruitt on Apr 11 2023 06:28 PM
Over the next several months, let’s take a journey together and learn about the different use cases. Join me as I dive i...
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Saying Goodbye to HPC Pack 2012 R2: End of Life Date Reached April 11th 2023

Kent Altena on Apr 11 2023 04:52 PM
Are you still using HPC Pack 2012 R2 for your high-performance computing needs? It's time to consider upgrading to HPC P...
7,285

MatLab and Azure: A Match Made in Performance Heaven

Kent Altena on Apr 10 2023 04:31 PM
Are you tired of slow MatLab performance when working with complex simulations and data analysis? Microsoft Azure provid...
2,117

Training large AI models on Azure using CycleCloud + Slurm

jesselopez on Mar 28 2023 10:28 AM
Here we demonstrate and provide template to deploy a computing environment optimized to train a transformer-based large ...
1,627

Integrating external Grid Engine Scheduler to CycleCloud (Cloud Bursting scenario)

vinilv on Mar 13 2023 02:22 AM
Azure CycleCloud is an enterprise-friendly tool for orchestrating and managing High-Performance Computing (HPC) environm...
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Authenticating Active Directory users to an Azure CycleCloud HPC cluster

vinilv on Mar 01 2023 09:11 PM
How to integrate Active Directory into the CycleCloud cluster (Node Authentication) for User management, using a custom ...
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Microsoft to showcase purpose-built AI infrastructure at NVIDIA GTC

Locky Ainley on Feb 28 2023 09:22 AM
Join Microsoft at GTC, a global technology conference running March 20 – 23, 2023, to learn how organizations of any siz...
1,855

Azure HPC OnDemand Platform: Visualizing Data with ParaView

utkarshayachit on Feb 22 2023 08:55 AM
ParaView integration in AzHOP
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Azure Managed Lustre - Benchmarking our new Azure storage solution

brianlepore on Feb 22 2023 08:00 AM
Tens or Hundreds of GB/s of storage throughput in Azure? How to benchmark Azure Managed Lustre  
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Accelerating AI applications using the JAX framework on Azure’s NDm A100 v4 Virtual Machines

HugoAffaticati on Feb 07 2023 10:00 AM
The results highlight good scaling from 1 to 16 nodes on both the Large and XLarge T5 models running with JAX on Azure. ...
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Accelerating Ansys LS-DYNA on Azure using HB-series VMs

Aimee_Garcia on Feb 01 2023 11:54 AM
Learn how to accelerate Ansys LS-DYNA on Azure.
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Deploy an Altair PBS Professional cluster in Azure CycleCloud

wolfgangdesalvador on Jan 31 2023 03:15 PM
Throughout the Azure HPC panorama, Azure CycleCloud is the tool of choice where HPC workloads requiring a scheduler like...
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Tackling AI Inference workloads on Azure’s NC A100 v4 virtual machines with time to spare

HugoAffaticati on Jan 26 2023 05:22 PM
The NC A100 v4-series offers great flexibility through MIG technology to handle different sizes of workload, from small ...
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A quick start guide to benchmarking AI models in Azure: MLPerf Inference v2.1 on Multi-Instance GPU

HugoAffaticati on Jan 26 2023 05:22 PM
In this document, one will find the steps to run the MLPerf Inference v2.1 benchmarks for BERT, ResNet-50, RNN-T, and 3D...
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Benchmarking Azure HPC SKUs for Financial Services Workloads

Kent Altena on Jan 12 2023 08:29 AM
Different HPC applications have different computational needs, so it is important to select a benchmark test that reflec...
5,398

Automating HPC Images customization with Azure Image Builder

wolfgangdesalvador on Dec 07 2022 02:05 PM
Azure HPC offering can easily adapt to the need of a specific workload. The possibility of customizing Azure Marketplace...
5,419

Moving HPC applications to object storage: a first exercise

Hugo_Meiland on Nov 21 2022 01:08 PM
With this blog / paper we demonstrate using object storage as the direct back end for running HPC applications on Azure....
2,319

Using Moneo to characterize GPU & IB networks for Deep learning

RashmiNetto on Nov 14 2022 12:16 PM
Moneo helps characterize GPU and IB networks in distributed systems ensuring that you can get the maximum performance ou...
2,236

Microsoft Azure supports the SC22 Student Cluster Competition

Andy Howard on Nov 14 2022 11:30 AM
Learn about how Microsoft Azure is supporting the Student Cluster Competition this week at SC22 in Dallas, TX!
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Integrating HPC Pack with Azure Files - the Preferred Storage Solution

Kent Altena on Nov 10 2022 04:47 PM
Storage of an HPC Solution next to compute is perhaps the second most critical decision towards HPC success. With the nu...

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superbsky
in Evaluating Genomics Pipelines on Azure: Intel-based Virtual Machines on May 17 2023 02:29 PM
Hello, Thank you for the very useful article! I am currently working on benchmarking for my pipeline in a similar setting. I have a question regarding cost estimation. In the Cromwell task execution log, I can observe StartTime/EndTime (wall time?), as well as ExecutorDurationInSeconds, FileUploadDu...
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karlpodesta
in Health checks for HPC workloads on Microsoft Azure on Feb 23 2023 09:13 AM
The repository in question is actually the "azurehpc" repo. Instead of the git command used in the article above (which doesn't work) - try this instead: git clone https://github.com/Azure/azurehpc.git
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utkarshayachit
in Interactive Web-based 3D Visualization of large scientific datasets using Azure Batch on Feb 18 2023 10:11 AM
@nickysandhu, I presume you're attempting to run the visualization application as a WebApp. It would work, but you'll need to use osmesa based ParaView binaries since there's no X server running (or accessible) to a WebApp. The Dockerfile in the vizer application, for example, does indeed use the os...
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nickysandhu
in Interactive Web-based 3D Visualization of large scientific datasets using Azure Batch on Feb 17 2023 06:17 PM
@utkarshayachit Would this approach work if I were using Azure WebApp service with Docker containers? I am getting errors regarding X windows and it crashes the Docker container!
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utkarshayachit
in Interactive Web-based 3D Visualization of large scientific datasets using Azure Batch on Jan 30 2023 03:48 PM
That's great! Don't hesitate to contact me if you run into issues or want to brainstorm potential approaches.
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