{"id":7803,"date":"2022-02-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-06-18T04:50:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T11:50:20","slug":"microsoft-azure-s-first-azure-hpc-ai-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/microsoft-azure-s-first-azure-hpc-ai-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Azure\u2019s first Azure HPC + AI Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Welcome to our first Azure HPC + AI Day! We\u2019re excited to host the first event, which will soon become an annual tradition. Join us on February 24 and 25 to hear directly from the Microsoft Azure team and earn points by attending sessions to get Azure HPC + AI Day swag. Tune into a customer panel and learn how to start up an environment with our hands-on lab. It\u2019s bound to be a great time, and we can\u2019t wait to meet you there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Register now<\/a> for Azure HPC + AI Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Join us from anywhere<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For full access to the entire event, make sure to register for the full experience, where you can experience live sessions, check out some additional resources, win swag, and take part in our hands-on labs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can\u2019t get to the full event? Our entire first day will also be broadcast on LinkedIn<\/a>. Watch from anywhere, and still get a chance to hear what\u2019s coming and ask our customers questions in the panel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Look forward to these sessions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Day one<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Title<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td><\/tr>

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9:00 AM PT<\/p>\n<\/td>

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Azure HPC + AI keynote<\/p>\n<\/td><\/tr>

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9:30 AM PT<\/p>\n<\/td>

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AI Infra Platform strategy<\/p>\n<\/td><\/tr>

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10:00 AM PT<\/p>\n<\/td>

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Azure HPC + AI software strategy<\/p>\n<\/td><\/tr>

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10:45 AM PT<\/p>\n<\/td>

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Cloud versus on-premises considerations<\/p>\n<\/td><\/tr>

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11:30 AM PT<\/p>\n<\/td>

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How to onboard as an HPC partner<\/p>\n<\/td><\/tr>

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12:00 PM PT<\/p>\n<\/td>

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Customer panel<\/p>\n<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Day two<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Title<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td><\/tr>

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9:00 \u2013 9:45 AM PT<\/p>\n<\/td>

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HPC Operations\u2014Azure, the best place to run HPC in the cloud<\/p>\n<\/td><\/tr>

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10:00 AM \u2013 12:00 PM PT<\/p>\n<\/td>

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IT Operator hands-on lab using on az-hop<\/p>\n<\/td><\/tr>

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10:00 AM \u2013 11:30 PM PT<\/p>\n<\/td>

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Journey from on-premises to cloud: Story by Ansys<\/p>\n<\/td><\/tr>

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12:15 \u2013 2:15 PM PT<\/p>\n<\/td>

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Engineer hands-on lab using az-hop<\/p>\n<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Hear directly from customers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Join us on February 24 at 12:00 PM PT to hear directly from our customers about their experiences. Available on both platforms, be ready to hear about their experiences working in the cloud, the incredible projects they\u2019ve been working on, and what the future holds. Don\u2019t forget to ask questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Time to roll up your sleeves\u2014with help<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

On February 25, get ready to roll up your sleeves and work in Azure. We\u2019ll have two hands-on labs guided by Microsoft experts. In the IT operator hands-on lab, you’ll get the chance to understand and build from scratch an end-to-end high-performance computing (HPC) cluster in Azure with autoscaling compute nodes, a web portal, a lustre file system, and remote visualization nodes. Later in the day in the Engineering hands-on lab, you\u2019ll then get the opportunity to run a typical HPC workload and visualize the end results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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*Please note that all sessions are full at this time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Big moments in 2021<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\"JellyfishJellyfish Pictures<\/a> needed to enable secure remote access to immense computing power to render visual effects and animation sequences. They were able to use Azure to gain burst rendering on up to 90,000 processor cores in the cloud, gaining a 70 percent boost in capacity and the freedom to work from anywhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Global leader in sustainable energy solutions Vestas Wind Systems A\/S<\/a> wanted to optimize wind energy production by reducing the negative impact of turbine wakes. Working with Microsoft Azure and minds.ai, Vestas is now able to generate simulations to help wind farms mitigate wake effect, generate more wind energy, and build a more sustainable and prosperous energy future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AMD<\/a> needed more computing power and burst capacity to easily handle spikes in demand, optimize its own processes, and accelerate in market. Drawing on the power and flexibility it gained with Azure HPC, AMD has eliminated weeks and even months of delay, reducing procurement times and overall job times. It\u2019s matching and exceeding on-premises performance and is now getting daily visibility into reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the midst of COVID-19 the need for a way to get faster test results, Sensyne Health<\/a> developed its MagnifEye solution, a mobile app that uses a device\u2019s camera to capture the LFT stick image and read it in tenths of seconds with a stunning 99.6 percent accuracy rate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Previous launches in 2021<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

NDm A100 v4 series virtual machines now generally available<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In November, we announced the general availability of the new NDm A100 v4 series virtual machines (VMs). This new series built on the ND A100 v4 announced in June and expanded Azure\u2019s leadership-class AI supercomputing scalability in the public cloud. The new high-memory NDm A100 v4 for data-intensive GPU compute workloads reaffirms Microsoft\u2019s commitment to rapidly adopting and shipping the latest scale-up and scale-out GPU accelerator technologies to the public cloud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more in the launch announcement<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Learn more<\/h2>\n\n\n\n