Recent Blogs
The HPC Roundtable 2025 in Turin brings together industry leaders, engineers, and technologists to explore the future of high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructu...
Sep 29, 2025
Introduction
This blog demonstrates the practical implementation of System Security Services Daemon (SSSD) with the recently introduced “idp” provider that can be used on Azure Linux 3.0 HPC cluste...
Sep 29, 2025
5 MIN READ
Abstract
The theme of this blog is “Simplicity”. Today’s HPC user has an overabundance of choices when it comes to HPC Schedulers, clouds, infrastructure in those clouds, and data management solu...
Sep 25, 2025
3 MIN READ
by Mark Gitau (Software Engineer)
Introduction
For the MLPerf Inference v5.1 submission, Azure shared performance results on the new ND GB200 v6 virtual machines. A single ND GB200 v6 VM on Azur...
Sep 09, 2025
Introduction
The DeepSeek R1 model represents a new frontier in large-scale reasoning for AI applications. Designed to tackle complex inference tasks, R1 pushes the boundaries of what’s possible—bu...
Aug 28, 2025
5 MIN READ
Introduction:
Many customers run multiple Teamcenter-SPDM solutions across the enterprise, mixing multiple instances, multiple ISV vendors, and hybrid cloud/on-prem implementations. This fragmentat...
Aug 28, 2025
Introduction
Following our previous evaluation of Llama 3.1 8B inference performance on Azure’s ND-H100-v5 infrastructure using vLLM, this report broadens the scope to compare inference performance...
Aug 26, 2025
Introduction
The pace of development in large language models (LLMs) has continued to accelerate as the global AI community races toward the goal of artificial general intelligence (AGI). Today’s m...
Aug 26, 2025
6 MIN READ
Small performance gaps on a single virtual machine lead to large and costly performance losses at scale. Running small-scale pretraining jobs enables single-VM validation and allows for fine-grained ...
Aug 18, 2025
Architecture
Ansys Minerva baseline architecture has four distributed tiers (client, web, enterprise, and resource) in a single Azure availability zone. Each tier aligns to function and communicati...
Jul 30, 2025