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Azure high-performance computing (HPC)

Power breakthrough innovations, solve complex problems, and optimize your compute-intensive workloads.

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OVERVIEW

Accelerate innovation and solve complex problems

Build and run your most demanding workloads in the cloud with a full stack solution purpose-built for HPC.

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Deliver supercomputing power, interoperability, and near-infinite scalability for compute-intensive workloads with Azure Virtual Machines.

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Empower decision-making and deliver next-generation AI with industry-leading Azure AI and analytics services.

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Help secure your data and applications and streamline compliance with multilayered, built-in security and confidential computing.

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WORKLOADS

Power your most complex workloads

Power your compute-intensive workloads with a purpose-built HPC platform.

Simulation and modeling

Easily run and scale simulations to inform real-world scenarios.

AI infrastructure

Deliver supercomputing power for AI applications and advanced analytics.

Visualization

Run graphic-intensive applications and visualize complex data.

Rendering

Easily deploy render farms and manage spikes in demand.

CUSTOMER STORIES

Learn from real-world HPC use cases

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"Our partnership with Azure has been fantastic for our business. Azure has been able to adapt to our needs, scale, and provide the elasticity as we grow."

Alex Kendall, Co-founder and CEO, Wayve

90%

Faster model training

Billions

Number of calculations

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“The value delivered by the technologies built on Azure HPC unlocks wake mitigation but also other use cases that make wind power even more competitive.”

Sven Jesper Knudsen, Chief Specialist and Modeling & Analytics Module Design Owner, Vestas

Millions

Number of simulations

15,000

Cores for the HPC solution

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“Everything with Azure is more unified and efficient…Thanks to the extensive capabilities and ease of use of Azure, GlaaS removes all the complexity for our customers.”

Victor Rubinstein, Senior Director of Technology, Moody’s Analytics

20,000

Cores in Azure versus 1,000 cores on-premises

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"With the incredible horsepower available in Azure, we can run physics-based models many times faster."

Andrew Norris, Director of Digital Platform Governance and Strategy, Stantec

26x

Faster data modeling

95%

Correlation for hydrology models

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”With burst rendering in Azure, we can expand our business according to the best talent and economics.”

Matthew Bristowe, Managing Director, Jellyfish Pictures

70%

Gain in compute capacity

80%

Reduction in cost

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“We only had 250 compute nodes on-premises, but Azure offers thousands of nodes, so our researchers and instructors don’t have to wait to spin up their H-series, N-series, and F-series VMs.”

Dr. Stefano Angioni, Research Computing Manager, University of Bath

900%

Increase in compute nodes

AI services

Create intelligent applications quickly with simple APIs and customizable models.

Virtual machines

Gain access to a broad portfolio of powerful compute and GPU-accelerated virtual machines.

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Storage

Get high-performance secure and scalable cloud storage.

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Azure Batch

Easily schedule, scale, and run HPC workloads and clusters.

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Next Steps

Choose the Azure account that’s right for you

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RESOURCES

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Resource hub

Azure HPC resources

Learn more about Azure HPC and find the right HPC solution for your compute-intensive workloads.

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Learning path

Learning path for Azure HPC

Access training modules to build, deploy and manage workloads on Azure HPC.

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Blog

Azure HPC technical community blog

Get the latest product updates, performance benchmarks, and training for Azure HPC.

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