New H-series Azure VMs for HPC workloads are in preview
Published date: 14 November, 2018
Two new H-series (HB and HC) Azure Virtual Machines for high-performance computing (HPC) workloads are now available in preview.
The HB-series VMs are optimised for HPC applications driven by memory bandwidth, such as fluid dynamics, explicit finite element analysis and weather modeling. The HB VMs feature 60 AMD EPYC 7551 processor cores, 4 GB of RAM per CPU core, no hyperthreading and up to four managed disks. The AMD EPYC platform provides more than 260 GB/sec of memory bandwidth.
HC-series VMs are also now in preview.These are optimised for HPC applications driven by intensive computation, such as implicit finite element analysis, reservoir simulation and computational chemistry. HC-series VMs feature 44 Intel Xeon Platinum 8168 processor cores, 8 GB of RAM per CPU core, no hyperthreading and up to four managed disks. The Intel Xeon Platinum platform supports Intel’s rich ecosystem of software tools and features an all-cores clock speed of 3.4 GHz for most workloads. Both VMs are now in preview.
For more information, read our blog or sign up to request access to these new virtual machines. Pricing details for Linux or Windows can be found on our websites.