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Clients world wide depend on Microsoft Azure to drive improvements associated to our surroundings, public well being, power sustainability, climate modeling, financial development, and extra. Discovering options to those vital challenges requires big quantities of targeted computing energy. Clients are more and more discovering the easiest way to entry such high-performance computing (HPC) is thru the agility, scale, safety, and modern efficiency of Azure’s purpose-built HPC and AI cloud providers.

Azure’s market-leading imaginative and prescient for HPC and AI relies on a dedication to continuous enchancment and backed by a core of real and acknowledged HPC experience, utilizing confirmed HPC expertise and design rules, enhanced with the perfect options of the cloud. The result’s a functionality that delivers efficiency, scale, and worth not like another cloud. This implies HPC software scaling effectivity of as much as 200 % for particular workloads. It’s the flexibility for buyer’s to have the ability to hire supercomputer scale for AI workloads. And it means delivering huge compute energy into the arms of medical researchers over a weekend to show out life-saving improvements within the battle towards COVID-19.

New Azure management unveiled at Supercomputing 2021 (SC21)

Azure on the forefront of HPC with AMD EPYC “Milan-X” CPUs

We’re excited to announce our preview is now stay for Azure HBv3 digital machines enhanced by AMD EPYC third Gen processors with 3D v-cache, codenamed “Milan-X”. These processors considerably enhance the efficiency, scaling effectivity, and price effectiveness of quite a lot of reminiscence performance-bound workloads akin to CFD, specific finite factor evaluation, computational geoscience, climate simulation, and silicon design RTL workflows. See our launch weblog for extra particulars.

New Azure OpenAI Service combines entry to highly effective GPT-Three language fashions

On the Microsoft Ignite convention in the present day, Microsoft introduced it’s going to assist its clients uncover these sorts of experiences with the brand new Azure OpenAI Service, which permits entry to OpenAI’s API by the Azure platform and can initially be accessible by invite solely. The brand new Azure Cognitive Service will give clients entry to OpenAI’s highly effective GPT-Three fashions, together with safety, reliability, compliance, knowledge privateness and different enterprise-grade capabilities which are constructed into Microsoft Azure.

Keep tuned for a further product announcement on Monday, November 15th.

Massive moments for Azure HPC and AI Supercomputing in 2021

Vestas supercharges its wind farm management fashions for sustainable power with Azure HPC

World chief in sustainable power options Vestas Wind Programs A/S wished to optimize wind power manufacturing by lowering the unfavourable influence of turbine wakes. Working with Microsoft and companion minds.ai, Vestas ran a reinforcement studying engine utilizing machine studying and Microsoft Azure high-performance computing and storage sources. Proof of idea full, Vestas now has the instruments to generate simulations that provide the potential to assist wind farms mitigate wake impact, generate extra wind power, and construct a sustainable and affluent power future.

AMD IT satisfies an insatiable urge for food for capability, scalablity, and innovation with Azure HPC

As a pacesetter in semiconductor, laptop processors, and associated applied sciences, AMD has a accountability to serve its clients, hold tempo with the trade, and assist set the usual for a way servers, computer systems, and embedded methods run. To take care of its execution monitor document, the IT workforce at AMD used Microsoft Azure high-performance computing (HPC), HBv3 digital machines, and different Azure sources to construct scalable capability and optimize the corporate’s cloud capabilities, accelerating time to market and eliminating weeks and even months of delay.

Sensyne Well being aids Nationwide Well being Service within the COVID-19 battle with Azure HPC and AI applied sciences

When the UK’s Nationwide Well being Service envisioned an app that might learn COVID-19 checks at scale with an accuracy and pace not doable by human readers, Sensyne Well being answered the decision. The app connects customers to an online service that makes use of AI to ship an Azure high-performance computing (HPC) resolution that’s adeptly orchestrated with NVIDIA Triton Inference Server on graphics processing models. The consequence—the extremely quick and correct MagnifEye resolution.

UK Met Workplace supercomputing announcement

The UK Met Workplace supercomputing announcement highlighted that Microsoft had been awarded a contract to ship a ten-year managed supercomputing service, offering superior supercomputing capabilities for climate and local weather analysis, making certain the continuation of the Met Workplace’s management on this space.

Earlier 2021 Azure HPC and AI product launches

Azure HBv3 digital machine

Azure introduced the final availability of the Azure HBv3 digital machine for HPC workloads advancing the rate at which we carry the most recent applied sciences to our HPC clients and the compute efficiency we put at their fingertips.

Azure ND A100 v4 digital machine

Azure introduced the final availability of scale-out NVIDIA A100 GPU Clusters with HDR 200 Gb/s InfiniBand networking—the quickest public cloud supercomputer. The ND A100 v4 VM is powered by NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs and is designed to let our most demanding clients scale up and scale out with out ever slowing down.

Within the June 2021 TOP500 checklist Microsoft Azure took public cloud providers to a brand new degree, demonstrating work on methods that took 4 consecutive spots from quantity 26 to quantity 29 on the TOP500 checklist. They’re elements of a world AI supercomputer known as the ND A100 v4 cluster, accessible on demand in 4 international areas in the present day. These rankings have been achieved on a fraction of our general cluster measurement. Every of the methods delivered 16.59 petaflops on the HPL benchmark often known as Linpack, a conventional measure of HPC efficiency on 64-bit floating level math that’s the premise for the TOP500 rankings.

Megatron-Turing Pure Language Mannequin

Azure pronounces the DeepSpeed-and Megatron-powered Megatron-Turing Pure Language Era mannequin (MT-NLG), the biggest and essentially the most highly effective monolithic transformer language mannequin educated to this point, with 530 billion parameters. It’s the results of a analysis collaboration between Microsoft and NVIDIA to additional parallelize and optimize the coaching of very massive AI fashions.

Azure FX-series Digital Machine

Azured introduced basic availability of the Azure FX-series Digital Machine, particularly designed to optimize digital design automation (EDA) workload processing with a purpose-built digital machine architected for EDA workloads. For extra particulars see the FX-series announcement Azure weblog, “Optimize excessive computing efficiency with Azure FX-series Digital Machines” in addition to the Ansys RedHawk announcement, “How Azure FX VM Makes Ansys RedHawk-SC™ Run Sooner the Much less You Spend.”

Be taught extra about Azure HPC and AI from the specialists

Be part of us at Supercomputing 2021 (SC21) digital sales space to be taught extra about Azure HPC and AI

We are going to function audio system in SC21 digital classes, present hyperlinks to downloads, case research, blogs, and extra Azure HPC movies. Please cease by our digital sales space to talk with us. We’d love to listen to from you.

Azure HPC + AI classes sill cowl a variety of subjects together with overview, HPC + AI platform at a look, Quantum, HPC journey to the cloud, and climate and local weather modeling.

MicroHack

Monday, November 15 from 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM PST.

Attend our Micro hack to expertise a walkthrough in creating an HPC cluster on Azure working a typical HPC workload.

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Azure HPC Buyer Panel

Please be a part of us, freed from cost, for a particular occasion with Microsoft clients, the place our six panelists will talk about their experiences in shifting on an on-premises infrastructure to the cloud. Panelists symbolize a variety of industries from analysis to science to visible results.

The occasion shall be held on September 16 at 9:00 AM PST and is free to attend. Don’t neglect to talk with us in our discord channel in the course of the occasion.

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