Ramp up with me...on HPC: What is high-performance computing (HPC)?
Over the next several months, let’s take a journey together and learn about the different use cases. Join me as I dive into each use case and for some of them, I’ll even try my hand at the workload for the first time. We’ll talk about what went well, and any what issues I ran into. And maybe, you’ll get to hear a little about our customers and partners along the way.
Azure’s ND GB200 v6 Delivers Record Performance for Inference Workloads
Achieving peak AI performance requires both cutting-edge hardware and a finely optimized infrastructure. Azure’s ND GB200 v6 Virtual Machines, accelerated by the NVIDIA GB200 Blackwell GPUs, have already demonstrated world record performance of 865,000 tokens/s for inferencing on the industry standard LLAMA2 70BRamp up with me... on HPC: What is Rendering?
New to learning about high performance computing (HPC) and want to know what Rendering is all about? Read the blog to take a journey into creating a new rendered animation and learn a little bit more about what this workload is and how it relates to HPC.
Announcing Azure CycleCloud Workspace for Slurm: Version 2025.12.01 Release
The Azure CycleCloud Workspace for Slurm 2025.12.01 release introduces major upgrades that strengthen performance, monitoring, authentication, and platform flexibility for HPC environments. This update integrates Prometheus self‑agent monitoring and Azure Managed Grafana, giving teams real‑time visibility into node metrics, Slurm jobs, and cluster health through ready‑to‑use dashboards. The release also adds Entra ID Single Sign‑On (SSO) to streamline secure access across CycleCloud and Open OnDemand. With centralized identity management and support for MFA, organizations can simplify user onboarding while improving security. Additionally, the update expands platform support with ARM64 compute nodes and compatibility for Ubuntu 24.04 and AlmaLinux 9, enabling more flexible and efficient HPC cluster deployments. Overall, this version focuses on improved observability, stronger security, and broader infrastructure options for technical and scientific HPC teams.
