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2026 26

  1. Upgrade Azure CycleCloud Slurm Node OS Images Without Recreating the VM Scale Set
  2. Choosing the Right Azure Virtual Machine for Ansys CFX
  3. Build a Simple GPU-Enabled Kubernetes Cluster on Azure N-Series VMs
  4. Azure Delivers Strong MLPerf Inference v6.1 Results with NVIDIA GB300 & GB200
  5. Scaling AI Storage: Azure Managed Lustre excels in MLPerf Storage v3.0
  6. Retirement of Microsoft HPC Pack
  7. Connecting Microsoft Discovery App to Azure HPC with Azure NetApp Files and CycleCloud
  8. Microsoft Discovery: Where HPC meets agentic AI for the next era of EDA
  9. Inside Llama 3.1 405B MLPerf Training on Azure: System-Level Insights at 8K+ GPU Scale
  10. Scaling High-Performance CAD on Azure Virtual Desktop with NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000
  11. Azure Sets a New Performance Record for LLM Training Benchmark at Extreme Scale
  12. Real-Time Simulation with Ansys Discovery on Azure AMD Radeon V710 GPUs
  13. Training 100B+ Models on a Single GPU: What MegaTrain Changes - and What It Means for Azure
  14. AI Infrastructure Preflight at User space: Validating Multi Node, Multi GPU Slurm Clusters
  15. Distributing model weights to your AI cluster: a faster pre-flight on AKS and Slurm
  16. Building resilient networks for AI supercomputers
  17. Simplify troubleshooting at scale - Centralized Log Management for CycleCloud Workspace for Slurm
  18. Azure NCv6 Virtual Machines: Enhancements and GA Transition
  19. AI Inferencing in Air-Gapped Environments
  20. Microsoft at NVIDIA GTC 2026
  21. Azure Recognized as an NVIDIA Cloud Exemplar, Setting the Bar for AI Performance in the Cloud
  22. Centralized cluster performance metrics with ReFrame HPC and Azure Log Analytics
  23. Scaling physics-based digital twins: Neural Concept on Azure delivers a New Record in Industrial AI
  24. mpi-stage: High-Performance File Distribution for HPC Clusters
  25. Azure V710 V5 Series -AMD Radeon GPU - Validation of Siemens CAD -NX
  26. Announcing Azure CycleCloud Workspace for Slurm: Version 2025.12.01 Release

2025 60

  1. Private Preview: Azure Managed Prometheus on VM / VMSS
  2. Automating HPC Workflows with Copilot Agents
  3. Azure NCv6 Public Preview: The new Unified Platform for Converged AI and Visual Computing
  4. Azure ND GB300 v6 now Generally Available - Hyper-optimized for Generative and Agentic AI workloads
  5. Announcing the Public Preview of AMLFS 20: Azure Managed Lustre New SKU for Massive AI&HPC Workloads
  6. Azure CycleCloud 8.8 and CCWS 1.2 at SC25 and Ignite
  7. Join Microsoft @ SC25: Experience HPC and AI Innovation
  8. Performance and Scalability of Azure HBv5-series Virtual Machines
  9. Breaking the Million-Token Barrier: The Technical Achievement of Azure ND GB300 v6
  10. The Complete Guide to Renewing an Expired Certificate in Microsoft HPC Pack 2019 (Single Head Node)
  11. Explore HPC & AI Innovation: Microsoft + AMD at HPC Roundtable 2025
  12. Use Entra IDs to run jobs on your HPC cluster
  13. CycleCloud + Hammerspace
  14. A Quick Guide to Benchmarking AI models on Azure: Llama 405B and 70B with MLPerf Inference v5.1
  15. Performance analysis of DeepSeek R1 AI Inference using vLLM on ND-H100-v5
  16. Teamcenter Simulation Process Data Management Architecture on Azure CycleCloud- Slurm cluster
  17. Inference performance of Llama 3.1 8B using vLLM across various GPUs and CPUs
  18. Performance of Llama 3.1 8B AI Inference using vLLM on ND-H100-v5
  19. Optimizing Large-Scale AI Performance with Pretraining Validation on a Single Azure ND GB200 v6
  20. Ansys Minerva Simulation & Process Data Management Architecture on Azure
  21. Creating a Slurm Job Submission App in Open OnDemand with Copilot Agent
  22. Performance at Scale: The Role of Interconnects in Azure HPC & AI Infrastructure
  23. Benchmark Different Capacities for EDA Workloads on Microsoft HPC Storages
  24. Microsoft Discovery: The path to an agentic EDA environment
  25. Deploying Siemens NX/X on Azure Virtual Desktop: Multi-Session GPU Sharing for CAD Workloads
  26. Distributed Finetuning, and Inference with NeMo-Run on Azure CycleCloud Workspace for Slurm
  27. HPC on Redhat Linux images
  28. Using Gromacs through EESSI on NC_A100_v4
  29. Building an Automated Recovery Pipeline for GPU Clusters with Slurm on Azure Part 2
  30. Siemens Simcenter™ STAR-CCM+™ on Azure HBv4
  31. Announcing the AI Infrastructure on Azure repository
  32. Open OnDemand with Azure CycleCloud Workspace for Slurm
  33. Fusing Simulation with Deep Learning: Technical Insights from the Frontlines on Azure
  34. Slurm custom image for a locked down environment and faster start-up time, Azure Cyclecloud
  35. Building an Automated Recovery Pipeline for GPU Clusters with Slurm on Azure Part1
  36. Achieving Optimal Performance for DeepSeek Expert Parallelism (DeepEP) on Azure
  37. Azure CycleCloud + Slurm: A Beginner’s Guide to Job Submission
  38. Accelerating Genomic Pipelines with Nextflow on Microsoft Azure at the Nextflow Summit Boston 2025
  39. DGX Cloud Benchmarking on Azure
  40. Computer-Aided Engineering “CAE” on Azure
  41. New Linux VDI Solution: Deploy Cendio Thinlinc as a Standalone Image with Direct Connectivity
  42. Automating Ubuntu Pro Integration with Azure CycleCloud HPC Clusters
  43. Introducing NVads V710 v5 series VMs
  44. Monitoring HPC & AI Workloads on Azure H/N VMs Using Telegraf and Azure Monitor (GPU & InfiniBand)
  45. Session on-demand and highlights from NVIDIA GTC 2025
  46. Running Container Workloads in CycleCloud-Slurm – Multi-Node, Multi-GPU Jobs (NCCL Benchmark)
  47. Azure’s ND GB200 v6 Delivers Record Performance for Inference Workloads
  48. Preview Announcement: Open OnDemand Integration with Azure CycleCloud Workspace for Slurm
  49. Accelerating the Intelligence Age with Azure AI Infrastructure and the GA of ND GB200 v6
  50. Hibernation is now Generally Available on GPU VMs!
  51. Unpacking the Performance of Microsoft Azure ND GB200 v6 Virtual Machines
  52. Experience Next-Gen HPC Innovation: AMD Lab Empowers ‘Try Before You Buy’ on Azure
  53. Daily schedule: Microsoft in-booth sessions at NVIDIA GTC
  54. Optimizing AI Workloads on Azure: CPU Pinning via NCCL Topology file
  55. Innovation starts here! Join Microsoft at NVIDIA GTC
  56. Using Azure CycleCloud with Weka
  57. Running DeepSeek-R1 on a single NDv5 MI300X VM
  58. Running DeepSeek on AKS with Ollama
  59. GPU Slicing in CycleCloud Slurm with CUDA Multi-Process Service (MPS)
  60. Deploying ZFS Scratch Storage for NVMe on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

2024 47

  1. Benchmark EDA workloads on Azure Intel Emerald Rapids (EMR) VMs
  2. Announcing Azure HBv5 Virtual Machines: A Breakthrough in Memory Bandwidth for HPC
  3. Microsoft adopts NVIDIA Blackwell to power the next frontier of AI supercomputing
  4. Benchmarking 6th gen. Intel-based Dv6 (preview) VM SKUs for HPC Workloads in Financial Services
  5. Join Microsoft Azure at SC24
  6. Running tightly coupled HPC/AI workloads with InfiniBand using NVIDIA Network Operator on AKS
  7. Introducing the Azure NMads MA35D: Exclusive Media Processing Powerhouse in the Cloud
  8. Azure NV V710 v5: Empowering Real-Time AI/ML Inferencing and Advanced Visualization in the Cloud
  9. Optimizing Language Model Inference on Azure
  10. HPC Lift and Shift Cloud Migration: Architecture and Best Practices
  11. Comprehensive Nvidia GPU Monitoring for Azure N-Series VMs Using Telegraf with Azure Monitor
  12. Announcing the General Availability of Azure CycleCloud Workspace for Slurm
  13. 3 ways HPC supports innovation in manufacturing
  14. Discover how Azure HPC can improve patient outcomes
  15. Accelerating water wading simulation using Altair® nanoFluidX® on Azure Nvidia A100 and Nvidia H100
  16. What is Azure HPC?
  17. Add a new Partition to a running CycleCloud SLURM cluster
  18. Pre-Job Health Checks on AKS: A Guide to Stable AI Workloads
  19. Migrating SLURM Job Accounting from Azure Database for MariaDB to MySQL Flexible Server
  20. Where Does One Machine End and the Next Begin?
  21. Creating a SLURM Cluster for Scheduling NVIDIA MIG-Based GPU Accelerated workloads
  22. GPU node health checks integrated into Azure Kubernetes service via node problem detector
  23. Microsoft joins Intel Foundry Accelerator USMAG Alliance
  24. Azure Modeling and Simulation Workbench Alliance enables innovation for semiconductor design
  25. Breaking the Speed Limit with WEKA File System on top of Azure Hot Blob
  26. Introducing Azure CycleCloud Slurm Workspace (Preview)
  27. Migrate data to Azure Managed Lustre retaining POSIX attributes
  28. Introducing the new Azure AI infrastructure VM series ND MI300X v5
  29. Setting Up Slurm Cloud Bursting Using CycleCloud on Azure
  30. Deploying Open OnDemand Portal with Azure CycleCloud
  31. Create the Future at Microsoft Azure HPC + AI Infrastructure Summit with AMD.
  32. Public Preview: Hibernation Support extended to GPU and more General Purpose VM sizes.
  33. Microsoft showcases latest AI solutions at NVIDIA GTC
  34. Annual Roundup of AI Infrastructure Breakthroughs for 2023
  35. A quick start guide to benchmarking AI models in Azure: Llama 2 from MLPerf Inference v4.0
  36. New Azure NC H100 v5 VMs Optimized for Generative AI and HPC workloads is now Generally Available
  37. Optimize GPU compute costs: Pause your VMs to save!
  38. Setting up SLURM Job Accounting with Azure CycleCloud and Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Server
  39. Announcing the release of CycleCloud 8.6
  40. Scaling Up in the Cloud: The WEKA Data Platform and Azure HPC Windows Grid Integration
  41. Running GPU accelerated workloads with NVIDIA GPU Operator on AKS
  42. Quick HPC Cluster Creation with Apps using CycleCloud and EESSI: A WRF example
  43. Choosing the Right Azure Spot VM for Rendering Workloads Using MoonRay
  44. Accelerating OpenFOAM Integration with Azure CycleCloud
  45. Learn how to power your AI transformation with the Microsoft Cloud at NVIDIA GTC.
  46. Azure CycleCloud: Cloud-init with Linux AT command
  47. Running AutoDock HPC application on Azure Machine Learning platform

2023 51

  1. Exploring CPU vs GPU Speed in AI Training: A Demonstration with TensorFlow
  2. Azure previews ND MI300X v5 optimized for demanding AI and HPC workloads
  3. Azure Managed Lustre with Automatic Synchronisation to Azure BLOB Storage
  4. Bringing Generative AI to Semiconductor and Electronics Design
  5. Introducing Azure NC H100 v5 VMs for mid-range AI and HPC workloads
  6. Azure announces new AI optimized VM series featuring AMD’s flagship MI300X GPU
  7. CycleCloud 8.5 Release Announcement
  8. NGads V620 series: Optimized for gaming scenarios - General availability and benchmarks
  9. Running HPC and AI workloads in containers in Azure
  10. Exploring an Automated Testing Strategy for Infrastructure as Code
  11. Microsoft at SC23
  12. Migrating existing HPC workloads from Azure Cyclecloud to Azure Batch
  13. Profiling AI/ML models on single/multi-GPUs using AzureHPC images
  14. Automated deployment of CycleCloud and SLURM using CLI
  15. Unmounting Azure Managed Lustre Filesystem in a CycleCloud HPC cluster using Azure Scheduled Events.
  16. How to unmount Azure Managed Lustre filesystem using Azure Scheduled Events
  17. Ramp up with me... on HPC: Understanding Virtual Machines, CPUs, and GPUs
  18. Introducing New Performance Tiers for Azure Managed Lustre: Enhancing HPC Workloads
  19. Unlocking innovation with Altair Unlimited and Microsoft Azure
  20. Azure Managed Lustre: not your grandparents' parallel file system
  21. Integrating Azure Managed Lustre Filesystem (AMLFS) into CycleCloud HPC Cluster
  22. Accessing Azure Managed Lustre from Windows through a SAMBA server
  23. A Quick Guide to Benchmarking AI Models on Azure: ResNet with MLPerf Training v3.0
  24. Starting HPC Worker Processes at Boot Time in VM Scale Sets
  25. HPC/AI Storage options for NDm_v4 (A100) Azure kubernetes service (AKS) cluster
  26. Performance & Scalability of HBv4 and HX-Series VMs with Genoa-X CPUs
  27. Massive Scaling of Barracuda Virtual Reactor on Azure-GPU
  28. Deploy NDm_v4 (A100) Kubernetes Cluster
  29. Az-HOP in the Azure Marketplace
  30. Running OpenFOAM simulations on Azure Batch
  31. How to identify the recommended VM for your HPC workloads
  32. Ramp up with me... on HPC: What is Rendering?
  33. Join Microsoft and NVIDIA at the NAFEMS World Congress in Tampa from 15th May – 18th May 2023
  34. Ramp up with me...on HPC: What is high-performance computing (HPC)?
  35. Saying Goodbye to HPC Pack 2012 R2: End of Life Date Reached April 11th 2023
  36. MatLab and Azure: A Match Made in Performance Heaven
  37. Training large AI models on Azure using CycleCloud + Slurm
  38. Accelerating NAMD on Azure HB-series VMs
  39. Integrating external Grid Engine Scheduler to CycleCloud (Cloud Bursting scenario)
  40. Reducing cost and time to solution for Simcenter STAR-CCM+ software on Azure’s HB-series VMs
  41. Authenticating Active Directory users to an Azure CycleCloud HPC cluster
  42. Microsoft to showcase purpose-built AI infrastructure at NVIDIA GTC
  43. Azure HPC OnDemand Platform: Visualizing Data with ParaView
  44. Azure Managed Lustre - Benchmarking our new Azure storage solution
  45. Accelerating AI applications using the JAX framework on Azure’s NDm A100 v4 Virtual Machines
  46. Profiling on HB Series with AMD uProf
  47. Accelerating Ansys LS-DYNA on Azure using HB-series VMs
  48. Deploy an Altair PBS Professional cluster in Azure CycleCloud
  49. Tackling AI Inference workloads on Azure’s NC A100 v4 virtual machines with time to spare
  50. A quick start guide to benchmarking AI models in Azure: MLPerf Inference v2.1 on Multi-Instance GPU
  51. Benchmarking Azure HPC SKUs for Financial Services Workloads

2022 51

  1. Automating HPC Images customization with Azure Image Builder
  2. Interactive Web-based 3D Visualization of large scientific datasets using Azure Batch
  3. Moving HPC applications to object storage: a first exercise
  4. Using Moneo to characterize GPU & IB networks for Deep learning
  5. Microsoft Azure supports the SC22 Student Cluster Competition
  6. Integrating HPC Pack with Azure Files - the Preferred Storage Solution
  7. Performance of Azure HBv4 and HX VMs for HPC
  8. Azure Collaborates with Hazy Research and NVIDIA to Achieve Unmatched MLPerf Results
  9. A Quick Guide to Benchmarking AI models on Azure: Mask R-CNN with MLPerf Training v2.1
  10. Automate the deployment of your CycleCloud server with Bicep
  11. NCCL Performance Impact with PCIe Relaxed Ordering
  12. Integrating external PBS Master to CycleCloud (Cloud Bursting scenario)
  13. Deploy Linux workstations for 3D visualization in Azure
  14. A quick start guide to benchmarking LLM models in Azure: NVIDIA NeMo Megatron - Results
  15. A quick start guide to benchmarking LLM models in Azure: NVIDIA NeMo Megatron - Steps
  16. Automate BeeOND Filesystem on Azure CycleCloud Slurm Cluster
  17. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP (CVO) for Azure – EDA Benchmark and Best Practices
  18. A quick start guide to benchmarking AI models in Azure: MLPerf Inference v2.1
  19. Microsoft at SC22
  20. Maximizing AI performance with the Azure NC A100 v4-series
  21. Getting started with Multi-Instance GPU (MIG) on the NC A100 v4-series
  22. A quick start guide to benchmarking AI models in Azure: MLPerf Training v2.0
  23. Integrating LDAP into CycleCloud Cluster for User authentication
  24. E2E deployment of a production ready NDv4 (A100) cluster targeting large deep learning training
  25. Install Slurm in a Custom Image for CycleCloud
  26. Microsoft Azure Joins Intel Foundry Services Cloud Alliance
  27. Getting started with the NCsv3 series and NCas_T4_v3 series
  28. Getting started with the NC A100 v4-series
  29. NVads A10 v5 series on Azure: Initial Benchmarks for Remote Workstation, Gaming, and Media Workloads
  30. Come join Microsoft in the Design Infrastructure Alley
  31. A quick start to benchmarking in Azure: NVIDIA Deep Learning Examples on the NC-series
  32. Moneo: Distributed GPU System Monitoring for AI Workflows
  33. Forthcoming Upgrade to HBv2 VMs for HPC
  34. Best Practice for Running Cadence Spectre X on Microsoft Azure
  35. Spack in a Multi-User HPC Environment on Azure
  36. Enabling Job accounting for SLURM with Azure Cyclecloud 8.2 and Azure MariaDB database
  37. Our Agenda at IS22 Booth A105
  38. Connect in person at ISC 2022
  39. Build AlphaFold2 cluster on Azure CycleCloud
  40. Deploy Multi-Region HPC clusters in Azure with CycleCloud
  41. AzureHPC Lustre Marketplace Offer
  42. Benchmarks and scalability of Hexagon simulation portfolio on Azure
  43. Accelerate ANSYS Mechanical on Azure HPC with Remote Solve Manager and Azure CycleCloud
  44. Microsoft Azure’s First Azure HPC + AI Day
  45. We'll see you at NVIDIA's Spring GTC Conference
  46. A Case Study in Leveraging Azure Analytics To Optimize on HPC/EDA Cloud Spending
  47. IC Manage Holodeck Enables Microsoft Azure For Semiconductor Design
  48. Automated HPC/AI compute node health-checks Integrated with the SLURM scheduler
  49. HPC/AI Cluster resource utilization monitoring using Azure Monitor
  50. Altair ultraFluidX™ on Azure
  51. Barracuda Virtual Reactor on Azure

2021 22

  1. Connected-Cloud architecture for EDA workloads in Azure at scale with data security
  2. Azure AI Supercomputer Delivers Record MLPerf Results
  3. Azure HPC + AI at SC21
  4. Digital Certification Initiative for Azure HPC
  5. Evaluating Genomics Pipelines on Azure: Intel-based Virtual Machines
  6. Performance considerations for large scale deep learning training on Azure NDv4 (A100) series
  7. Tool to assist in optimal pinning of processes/threads for Azure HPC/AI VM’s
  8. Azure to accelerate Genome-wide Analysis study
  9. Leveraging Azure Batch and Geospatial Open Source Standards to Map the World
  10. Optimizing OpenFOAM Performance and Cost on Azure HBv2 VMs
  11. Azure offers the most scalable GPU VM in the cloud with the ND A100 v4 powered by NVIDIA A100 GPUs
  12. Azure HPC OnDemand Platform: Cloud HPC made easy.
  13. Azure HBv3 VMs and Excelero NVMesh Performance Results: 100+ GB/s, 23+ million IOPS, 100 µs latency
  14. Optimal MPI Process Placement for Azure HB Series VMs
  15. Running NCBI BLAST on Azure – Performance, Scalability and Best Practice
  16. Check out the High-performance computing SKUs in the Azure Government Virginia region
  17. Microsoft Azure at ALTAIR HPC Summit 2021
  18. Ultra Disk Storage for HPC and GPU VMs
  19. Accelerated Networking with H-series VMs on Azure for older OS distributions
  20. Running Nextflow Data Pipelines on Azure Batch
  21. Performance impact of enabling Accelerated Networking on HBv3, HBv2 and HC virtual machines
  22. EDA workloads on Azure NetApp Files- Performance Best Practice

2020 14

  1. Azure Announces Public Availability of ND A100 v4 AI Supercomputing Instances (Preview)
  2. Azure HBv2 joins Graph500 Top 20 list
  3. Univa Grid Engine Cluster arrives in Azure CycleCloud 8.1
  4. Whitepaper for SAS 9.4 Grid using Lustre on Azure
  5. Monitor your HPC Cluster with Telegraf, InfluxDB and Grafana using Azure CycleCloud
  6. Microsoft and SchedMD partner to bring Slurm into Azure CycleCloud
  7. Optimizing MPI Collective Communication using HPC-X on AzureHPC VMs
  8. Running long HPC jobs on Azure with checkpointing using LAMMPS, NAMD and Gromacs
  9. Run OPM Flow reservoir simulation and visualization software on Azure
  10. Benchmarking goodness: Comparing Lustre, GlusterFS, and BeeGFS on Azure
  11. NEW WHITEPAPER: Run MPI workloads with Azure Batch and Azure NetApp Files
  12. Adaptive Routing on Azure HPC
  13. Run WRF v4 on Azure HPC Virtual Machines
  14. Run Spack on Azure and integrate the build cache with Azure Blob Storage

2019 11

  1. Lustre on Azure
  2. Tuning BeeGFS and BeeOND on Azure for specific I/O patterns
  3. HPC Performance and Scalability Results with Azure HBv2 VMs
  4. Health checks for HPC workloads on Microsoft Azure
  5. HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING (HPC): OIL AND GAS IN AZURE
  6. Running HPC-X on SR-IOV enabled HPC instances in Azure
  7. Deploy an end to end Azure environment easily and run your benchmarks with azhpc!
  8. Remote Visualization in Azure
  9. NEW EXAMPLE SCENARIO: Accelerate digital image-based modeling on Azure
  10. NEW E-BOOK UPDATE: Parallel Virtual File Systems on Microsoft Azure
  11. High Performance Computing on Azure – Portal

2018 12

  1. Parallel Virtual File Systems on Microsoft Azure - Part 5: Monitoring and conclusion
  2. Parallel Virtual File Systems on Microsoft Azure - Part 4: BeeGFS on Azure
  3. Guidance and framework for running HPC applications on Azure
  4. Parallel Virtual File Systems on Microsoft Azure - Part 3: GlusterFS on Azure
  5. Parallel Virtual File Systems on Microsoft Azure - Part 2: Lustre on Azure
  6. NEW AzureCAT GUIDANCE: High performance computing on Azure: Migration guide for A8 to A11 virtual ma
  7. Parallel Virtual File Systems on Microsoft Azure - Part 1: Overview
  8. AzureCAT Whitepaper: High-performance computing on Microsoft Azure: GlusterFS
  9. AzureCAT eBook: Parallel Virtual File Systems on Microsoft Azure
  10. Azure GAHP Server for HTCondor
  11. Implementing GlusterFS on Azure (HPC Scalable Parallel File System)
  12. Parallel File Systems for HPC Storage on Azure