Azure announces new AI optimized VM series featuring AMD’s flagship MI300X GPU
In our relentless pursuit of pushing the boundaries of artificial intelligence, we understand that cutting-edge infrastructure and expertise is needed to harness the full potential of advanced AI. At Microsoft, we've amassed a decade of experience in supercomputing and have consistently supported the most demanding AI training and generative inferencing workloads. Today, we're excited to announce the latest milestone in our journey. We’ve created a virtual machine (VM) with an unprecedented 1.5 TB of high bandwidth memory (HBM) that leverages the power of AMD’s flagship MI300X GPU. Our Azure VMs powered with the MI300X GPU give customers even more choices for AI optimized VMs.
HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING (HPC): OIL AND GAS IN AZURE
The goal of this blog is to share our experiences running key Oil and Gas workloads in Azure. We have worked with multiple customers running these workloads successfully in Azure. We now have a great potential for using the cloud in the Oil and Gas industry, to optimize the business workflows that were previously limited by capacity and older hardware.
NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP (CVO) for Azure – EDA Benchmark and Best Practices
This article provides benchmark reference and architectural guidance to customers who are considering migration of their Electronic Design Automation (EDA) workload to Azure, using CVO as the NFS solution. Furthermore, it provides guidance on where and how to best deploy CVO for EDA workloads. This article focuses on benchmark performance and does not address CVO setup or configuration.
Performance considerations for large scale deep learning training on Azure NDv4 (A100) series
Modern DL training jobs require large Clusters of multi-GPUs with high floating-point performance connected with high bandwidth, low latency networks. The Azure NDv4 VM series is designed specifically for these types of workloads. We will be focusing on HPC+AI Clusters built with the ND96asr_v4 virtual machine type and providing specific optimization recommendations to get the best performance.
Introducing Azure NC H100 v5 VMs for mid-range AI and HPC workloads
Today at Ignite, Microsoft is announcing the public preview of the NC H100 v5 Virtual Machine Series, the latest addition to our portfolio of purpose-built infrastructure for High Performance Computing (HPC) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) workloads.
We'll see you at NVIDIA's Spring GTC Conference
As businesses and technology change rapidly, the complexity of the workloads has dramatically expanded, leading to an ever-increasing need for more power. Many of these workloads require the ability to both scale up and scale out their infrastructure to meet more complex needs and manage ambiguity. To solve your most complex and innovative workloads, Azure has the infrastructure you need with the power of the world’s largest supercomputer, the versatility of the cloud, and the security you expect.Announcing Azure HBv5 Virtual Machines: A Breakthrough in Memory Bandwidth for HPC
Discover the new Azure HBv5 Virtual Machines, unveiled at Microsoft Ignite, designed for high-performance computing applications. With up to 7 TB/s of memory bandwidth and custom 4th Generation EPYC processors, these VMs are optimized for the most memory-intensive HPC workloads. Sign up for the preview starting in the first half of 2025 and see them in action at Supercomputing 2024 in Atlanta
