High-performance computing
Explore Azure HPC solutions by industry and application to find the products and services you need to achieve your unique business objectives.
Powerful versatility
Optimized for HPC workloads. Whether it’s fluid dynamics, finite element analysis, seismic processing, reservoir simulation, or weather modeling, run your workloads with maximum performance, scalability, and cost efficiency on Azure.
Extend your HPC environment to the cloud. Use Azure HPC resources on your terms. Dynamically burst to the cloud to complement your on-premises capabilities, or even fully migrate entire HPC environments and workflows.
Supercomputer networking
InfiniBand bandwidth and latency, with support for RDMA verbs, OFED drivers, and all MPI types and versions, including OpenMPI, MVAPICH2, Platform MPI, and Intel MPI—Azure is the only public cloud to offer InfiniBand
Powerful compute
Extraordinary scalability and versatility with fully managed, dedicated supercomputers from Cray, powerful CPU and GPU virtual machines (VMs), highly capable virtual desktop offerings, and a wide-array of fast, and flexible storage options
Seamless integration
Easily extend existing HPC resource environments to Azure— no need to re-architect your applications for the cloud. Use Azure tools to clone your clusters to the cloud and manage your application workflows
Microsoft receives two 2019 HPCwire Editors Choice Awards
We are proud to receive two Editors Choice awards. Our focus and passion is to design HPC solutions to meet your on prem price / performance expectations.
Explore Azure HPC solutions by application and industry
Empower engineers, scientists, and researchers to make new breakthroughs in their fields with Azure HPC.
Industries
Automotive
Simulate all aspects of vehicle engineering cost-effectively and at scale with highly secure infrastructure.
Learn moreFinancial services
Confidently meet regulatory requirements with an elastic and intelligent infrastructure for risk modeling. Extend your capacity as needed and only pay for what you use.
Learn moreEnergy
Optimize all stages of upstream oil and gas industry exploration, appraisal, completion, and production.
Learn moreLife sciences
Accelerate insights in genomics, precision medicine, and clinical trials with near-infinite high-performance bioinformatics infrastructure.
Learn moreSilicon
Scalable, secure, on-demand, high-performance infrastructure with compute, storage and networking optimized for EDA workloads.
Learn moreManufacturing
Rapidly iterate on product design to reduce time to market and improve product quality with scalable and highly secure on-demand infrastructure.
Learn moreWorkloads
Machine learning
Get powerful remote workstations, run clusters with near-infinite scale, and gain better insights with advanced analytics, machine learning, and AI workloads run on Azure.
Learn moreVisualization
Run any graphic-intensive workload in the cloud and deliver extraordinary experiences to any device, anywhere, anytime, with Azure.
Learn moreRendering
Render with confidence on a scalable, MPAA-certified, non-competing platform that’s trusted by 95 percent of the Fortune 500.
Learn moreHPC Platform Services
Get vast compute resources with a cloud platform built for global scale and outfitted with services specifically geared towards handling HPC workloads.
Network
Establish private, secure tunnels for hybrid cloud connectivity using Azure ExpressRoute. Take advantage of Linux RDMA with InfiniBand for MPI workloads within your data center.
Compute
Find the right compute resources at nearly unlimited scale on Azure. Use H-series VMs for memory bound applications, N-series VMs for graphic intensive and CUDA/OpenCL based applications, or Cray for a fully dedicated and customized supercomputer as a service.
Storage
Use HPC Cache to burst your HPC applications into Azure using data stored in on-prem NAS devices. Delivered as an Azure service natively within Azure data center Azure NetApp files lets you access large amounts of I/O with a sub-millisecond latency. For high throughout storage solution use Cray ClusterSor - a Lustre-based, bare-metal HPC storage solution that is fully integrated into the Azure fabric.
Workflow Services
Take advantage of Azure Batch to create and manage compute nodes, install applications you want to run and schedule jobs. Use Azure CycleCloud to dynamically provision HPC Azure clusters and orchestrate data and jobs for hybrid and cloud workflows. Elastically provision additional compute capacity for your HPC applications by encapsulating your processes and running containers using Azure Kubernetes Services.
Intelligent Services
Innovate the next generation of applications with predictive analysis using Data Lake Analytics. Gain more insights by building and running machine learning models on top of your HPC data.
Fully managed supercomputing service on Azure
Get a dedicated, fully managed, single tenancy Cray XC series or Cray CS series supercomputer. Take advantage of ClusterStor high-performance storage with your Cray deployment or with Azure H-series VMs. Experience great features like:
- Dedicated, customized, fully managed supercomputers.
- Single tenancy on bare metal for complete control and privacy over your computing environment.
- No data movement. Your data stays on the same Azure network as your RDMA/GPU/FPGA VMs.
- Transformative services such as AI, deep learning, and advanced analytics.
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