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Why Windows Azure
I spent last week meeting with customers and partners about Windows Azure. Some of them are working with us and pushing the limits, and others are evaluating Azure.Here’s one perspective on “Why...
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Extending High Performance Capabilities for Microsoft Azure
We are excited to announce the extension of A8 and A9 support in Azure to include virtual machine (IaaS) options for these sizes running either Windows Server or Linux operating systems....
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New Regions with High Performance Capabilities
Following closely on the heels of two recent announcements about new high performance capabilities on Microsoft Azure (HPC Team blog, Azure blog), we are happy to announce that we are adding support...
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HPC Pack 2012 R2 Update 1 and MS-MPI v5 are now available
We are pleased to announce that the official releases of Update 1 for HPC Pack 2012 R2, and the newest version of Microsoft MPI (MS-MPI) are now available for download. The installation package for HPC...
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Announcing new Compute Intensive instances
Today we are announcing two new compute intensive instances: A10 and A11. These new instances have the same performance optimizations as the existing A8 and A9 instances, but do not include the...
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MS-MPI V6.0 Beta announcement
We are happy to announce today the Beta release of the newest version of Microsoft MPI (MS-MPI). MS-MPI v6 Beta is the pre-release version for the successor to HPC Pack 2012 R2 MS-MPI Redistributable...
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Big Compute for large engineering simulations
We recently shared our experience working closely with one of our partners, Schlumberger, and talked about the great solution that we helped them bring to their customers: INTERSECT Simulator in the...
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Announcing availability of Linux RDMA on Microsoft Azure
We are excited to announce today the availability of Linux RDMA on Microsoft Azure. With this release, we mark a new milestone in our cloud journey and in our vision to make HPC and Big Compute more...
View ArticleWhat's new in Azure Batch July release (General Availability)
Azure Batch service just announced general availability (see this blog post for detail). Comparing to the preview version, here is a list of what has changed. The New Portal Batch is now available in...
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Announcing availability of Linux RDMA on Microsoft Azure
We are excited to announce today the availability of Linux RDMA on Microsoft Azure. With this release, we mark a new milestone in our cloud journey and in our vision to make HPC and Big Compute more...
View ArticleUpdate 2 for HPC Pack 2012 R2 is now available
We are pleased to announce today that Update 2, our newest release of HPC Pack 2012 R2, is now available. The most exciting new feature in Update 2 is the support for Linux on Azure. It allows you to...
View ArticleMicrosoft MPI v7 Beta is now available
We are happy to announce today the Beta release of the newest version of Microsoft MPI (MS-MPI). MS-MPI v7 Beta is the pre-release version for the successor to MS-MPI v6 (v6.0.12436, released on...
View ArticleMicrosoft HPC Pack 2012 R2 Update 3 is now available
Today, we are pleased to announce the Update 3 for HPC Pack 2012 R2 is now available. With this latest release of update, HPC Pack gets into some exciting new areas like GPU support, on-premises Linux...
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How to fully use GPU resources to run GPGPU jobs in Microsoft HPC Pack?
With the advent of the Graphical Processing Unit (GPU) as a general-purpose computing unit, more and more customers are moving towards GPU-based clusters to run their scientific and engineering...
View ArticleAnnouncing the availability of MPI support on Azure Batch
Update: We have a published the detail on azure.com We are happy to announce today the release of MPI support on Azure Batch services. We have released a service update recently with several feature...
View ArticleAzure Batch Service Update – Dec., 2015
We are excited to announce the first major service update of Azure Batch since the service GA in July, 2015. This service update brings multiple new features. Multi-instance task support. Batch service...
View ArticleIntroducing Linux support on Azure Batch
We are excited to announce today a preview of Azure Batch for Linux virtual machines. This brings the power of Batch “scheduling-as-a-service” to customers with Linux applications and workflows across...
View ArticleLanguage support of Batch Client Library – Python
When Azure Batch was initially released last summer, there was only 1 client language we supported, and that was C#. But we always understand that our customers live in a diversified world, and the...
View ArticleIntroducing MPI support for Linux on Azure Batch
We are happy to announce the release of MPI support for Linux on Azure Batch. We earlier released MPI support for Windows, and recently introduced Linux support on Azure Batch. We now extend Batch to...
View ArticleMicrosoft HPC Pack 2016 is now available in Azure
We are excited to announce today the availability of the Microsoft HPC Pack 2016 in Microsoft Azure. With this major release, we mark a new milestone in our cloud journey and in our vision to make HPC...
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