Azure HBv2 Virtual Machines eclipse 80,000 cores for MPI HPC
27 February 2020
HPC-optimized virtual machines now available.
Posts by: Evan Burness
Azure high-performace computing at SC’19
19 November 2019
HBv2 Virtual Machines for HPC, Azure’s most powerful yet, now in preview Azure HB v2-series Virtual Machines (VM) for high-performance computing (HPC) are now in preview in the South Central US region.
Introducing the new HBv2 Azure Virtual Machines for high-performance computing
08 August 2019
Announcing the second-generation HB-series Azure Virtual Machines for high-performance computing (HPC). HBv2 Virtual Machines are designed to deliver leadership-class performance, message passing interface (MPI) scalability, and cost efficiency for a variety of real-world HPC workloads.
Azure HC-series Virtual Machines cross 20,000 cores for HPC workloads
20 June 2019
Azure HC-series Virtual Machines are now generally available in the West US 2 and East US regions. HC-series virtual machines (VMs) are optimized for the most at-scale, computationally intensive HPC applications. For this class of workload, HC-series VMs are the most performant, scalable, and price-performant ever launched on Azure or elsewhere on the public cloud.
HB-series Azure Virtual Machines achieve cloud supercomputing milestone
26 May 2019
New HPC-targeted cloud virtual machines are first to scale to 10,000 cores. Azure Virtual Machine HB-series are the first on the public cloud to scale a MPI-based high performance computing (HPC) job to 10,000 cores. This level of scaling has long been considered the realm of only the world’s most powerful and exclusive supercomputers, but now is available to anyone using Azure.
Introducing the new HB and HC Azure VM sizes for HPC
24 September 2018
We are excited to announce two additions to our H-series Azure virtual machines for High-Performance Computing (HPC).