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AI + Machine Learning, Batch, Compute, Events
Published • 4 min read
By Locky Ainley Product Marketing Manager, Azure VMware Solution
Join Microsoft at NVIDIA GTC, a free online global technology conference, March 20–23.
Batch, Compute, Thought leadership
Published • 8 min read
By Mark Russinovich Chief Technology Officer and Technical Fellow, Microsoft Azure
In our two-part series on advancing global network reliability through intelligent software, we explain how we’ve approached our network design, and how we’re constantly working to improve both reliability and performance.
Azure Virtual Machines, Batch, Compute, Updates
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By Meagan McCrory Senior Program Manager, Azure Compute
We are thrilled to announce the public preview of Low-priority Virtual Machines (VMs) on VM Scale Sets. Low-priority VMs allow users to run their workloads at a fraction of the price, enabling significant cost savings.
By Corey Sanders Corporate Vice President, Azure
Machine Learning, AI, and HPC are changing the way every industry thinks, including retail, manufacturing, healthcare, oil and gas, and financial services. These large computations are changing product design, end-customer experiences, enabling predictive support and leading to discoveries and innovations not previously possible. It really is an exciting time to be working in the cloud!
Published • 5 min read
By Mark Scurrell Principal Program Manager
You can now use the Azure CLI to run batch jobs end-to-end, no code required. An extension is available for the Azure CLI that adds Batch template support to enable pools, jobs, and tasks to be created, plus adds file transfer capabilities.
By Mark Scurrell Principal Program Manager
Today at Microsoft Build 2017, we are delighted to announce the public preview of a new way to obtain and consume Azure compute at a much lower price using Azure Batch – low-priority VMs. Low-priority VMs are allocated from our surplus compute capacity and are available for up to an 80% discount, enabling certain types of workloads to run for a significantly reduced cost or allowing you to do much more for the same cost.
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By Corey Sanders Corporate Vice President, Azure
I’m always amazed by the mind-blowing visual effects in today’s movies, but I know rendering these effects is one of the most complex aspects of a cinematic production. It is hard to find the right…
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By Anh Vo Senior SDE, Microsoft Azure
We are happy to announce the release of the newest version of Microsoft MPI (MS-MPI). MS-MPI v8 is the successor to the Microsoft MPI v7.1 redistributable package (released in June 2016).
By Fred Park Software Engineer
The Azure Big Compute team is happy to announce version 1.0.0 of the Batch Shipyard toolkit, which enables easy deployment of batch-style Dockerized workloads to Azure Batch compute pools. Azure…
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By Manoj Soni Senior Software Engineer, Azure Big Compute Team
We are happy to announce the release of MPI support for Linux on Azure Batch. We earlier released MPI support for Windows, and recently introduced Linux support on Azure Batch.