ISC 2023: Experience the facility of HPC within the cloud with Microsoft Azure | Azure Blog and Updates

The ISC High-Performance Event (ISC), previously often known as International Supercomputing Conference, is without doubt one of the most essential occasions within the high-performance computing (HPC) trade, bringing collectively among the world’s most distinguished researchers, builders, distributors, and customers to debate the most recent developments in HPC expertise. Microsoft Azure has had a serious presence at ISC for a number of years now, and this yr’s convention might be no exception.

Looking again at ISC 2022

At ISC 2022, we showcased the most recent HPC options for Azure HPC, together with the final availability of a number of new merchandise. These options are designed to assist organizations of all sizes reap the benefits of the facility and adaptability of Azure for his or her HPC workloads.

Key themes for us prior to now have been round showcasing our newest developments in HPC and AI infrastructure, and the way our options can assist companies speed up their analysis, streamline their operations, and obtain their enterprise targets. In addition, we demonstrated the worth of our partnerships with numerous trade leaders and the way we collectively allow clients to leverage the most recent applied sciences in HPC and AI. We additionally highlighted our dedication to offering safe and scalable cloud options to fulfill the calls for of probably the most complicated workloads.

Key themes to assist companies at ISC 2023

As we sit up for the upcoming occasion, these key themes are much more essential to debate with clients and discover methods for them to do extra with much less on this atmosphere of macroeconomic uncertainty. Our specialists mixed with our key companions on this house are actually unimaginable at serving to companies optimize their cloud spend and leverage the very best expertise for the precise ROI to get the quickest outcomes attainable.

AI can be a key theme in our present panorama, with massive breakthroughs taking place just lately on this house, and can stream by way of into our presence on the occasion. Whether you’re engaged on picture and speech recognition, pure language processing, or predictive modeling, a robust infrastructure is required to energy and speed up these workloads.

This yr we’re a silver sponsor for the ISC 2023 occasion. We’ll have each a sales space on-site (C318) and a digital presence. We’ll have a number of displays per day round key matters within the HPC and AI areas, given by Microsoft specialists and companions. We’ll even have some displays from clients, the place you possibly can study extra about how different firms are accelerating their workloads on the cloud and ask questions.

Vendor Showdown

Antigoni Chrysostomou, Director Specialist Management, Microsoft.

Come hear in regards to the following matters on this yr’s Vendor Showdown:

• Microsoft’s technique to proceed investing within the latest CPUs and graphic processing items (GPUs) with AMD, Intel, and NVIDIA—constructing real HPC and AI infrastructure at scale.
• How we’re operating Linux on our HPC methods and we will run message passing interface (MPI) jobs on Azure.
• How Azure is reaching world-class efficiency optimized usually with particular variations of CPUs not accessible on prem or with different cloud distributors available on the market.
• Microsoft’s technique round AI infrastructure for coaching AI fashions.
• Quantum Computing and the power to run quantum use circumstances on in the present day’s HPC infrastructure.
• Examples of how we assist clients obtain extra.

HPC Solutions Forum

Hall H, Booth K1001—Ground Floor on Tuesday, May 23, 2023, from 1:40 PM to 2:00 PM CEST.

HPC infrastructure for AI outcomes: Learning at giant scale—Monday, May 22, 2023. Time to be introduced.

Microsoft Azure claims 5 entries within the prime 50 supercomputers on this planet (November 2022). These entries are every smaller components of bigger methods, at separate websites. As part of public cloud infrastructure, they’re utilized by clients all around the world for operating each HPC and enormous AI fashions. They are additionally utilized by Microsoft itself. Our partnerships (reminiscent of with NVIDIA and OpenAI) assist us to run among the largest AI fashions on this planet and produce this intelligence immediately into your entire suite of Microsoft merchandise, from Windows to Office to Bing (and Azure itself, too). Come and study a few of what we now have discovered from coaching, deploying, and operating the world’s largest AI fashions, on among the world’s largest HPC infrastructure—and our ideas on how this pertains to sustainability and powering the longer term.

Want to control what’s taking place? Check out our ISC 2023 web site, which we’ll proceed to replace as plans are solidified.

Newest developments since ISC 2022

Azure HBv4-series and HX-series digital machines, now in preview

In November 2022, the most recent developments in purpose-built digital machines focused for HPC workloads introduced the HBv4-series and HX-series, powered by lengthy awaited, latest 4th Gen EPYCTM AMD processors, codenamed ‘Genoa.’ The HBv4-series is the subsequent technology of our lengthy operating, flagship HB-series, and brings vital enhancements to key workloads reminiscent of computational fluid dynamics (CFD), finite ingredient evaluation, frontend and backend digital design automation (EDA), rendering, molecular dynamics, computational geoscience, climate simulation, AI inference, and monetary danger evaluation. The model new HX-series is a big step in the direction of delivering the very best platform for silicon design, with greater reminiscence capability and is designed to assist ever rising fashions which are changing into extra commonplace amongst chip designers.

Azure Managed Lustre, now in preview

In February 2023 we launched Azure Managed Lustre in preview, a brand new storage providing for Azure HPC. Lustre is an open-source parallel file system famend for HPC and is adept at large-scale cluster computing. Azure Managed Lustre (preview) gives high-performance storage of Lustre with the management and consistency of Azure. As a consequence, clients can give attention to their enterprise targets, whether or not that’s constructing a fraud detection system primarily based on statistical evaluation system (SAS) analytics or decoding the human genome to create the subsequent breakthrough in medication.

Azure NVads A10 v5 digital machines, now typically accessible

The new Azure NVads A10 v5 digital machines turned typically accessible in June 2022, that includes NVIDIA A10 Tensor Core GPUs and enhanced efficiency capabilities for graphics-intensive processing workloads. These digital machines are perfect for graphics-intensive functions for CAD, structure engineering and building (AEC), gaming, and digital desktop infrastructure (VDI) and supply clients with versatile, scalable options to fulfill their computing wants. With GPU partitioning (1/8 to 2 full GPUs accessible), these new digital machines decrease the barrier to entry for firms eager to leverage GPUs, the place a full GPU just isn’t essential. We encourage clients to discover the brand new capabilities of Azure NVads A10 v5 digital machines and expertise the advantages of superior graphics processing for his or her enterprise.

See what our clients have been as much as

	Moody’s Analytics Moody’s Analytics collaborated with Microsoft Azure to develop a scalable cloud HPC answer to assist its insurance coverage monetary intelligence platform. By leveraging Azure digital machine scale units and Azure HPC SKUs, Moody’s was in a position to effectively scale its infrastructure to assist dynamic workloads, enhance software efficiency, and cut back operational prices. As a results of this partnership, Moody’s Analytics was in a position to improve its buyer expertise and supply extra correct, dependable, and well timed monetary evaluation to the insurance coverage trade.
	Climavision Climavision partnered with Microsoft Azure to develop a scalable and dependable cloud answer to assist its superior climate forecasting expertise. With Azure’s AI and analytics capabilities, Climavision was in a position to enhance its climate prediction accuracy and supply real-time, hyperlocal climate insights to its clients. By leveraging Azure’s safe and versatile cloud platform, Climavision was in a position to improve its operational effectivity and obtain vital enterprise progress.
	UD Trucks UD Trucks collaborated with Microsoft to develop a complicated HPC and AI infrastructure to enhance the effectivity and accuracy of its manufacturing processes. By leveraging Azure’s HPC capabilities and machine studying algorithms, UD Trucks was in a position to streamline its provide chain operations and improve its car design course of. With Azure’s safe and scalable cloud platform, UD Trucks was in a position to obtain vital value financial savings and place itself for future progress within the automotive trade.
	Encina Chemicals Encina Chemicals partnered with Microsoft Azure to develop a scalable, safe, and versatile cloud answer to optimize its manufacturing processes, cut back time to answer, and improve the opportunity of operating bigger and extra refined area fashions that incorporate extra detailed physics and extra complicated chemical reactions. Azure’s built-in AI and analytics capabilities enabled Encina Chemicals to automate high quality management, optimize manufacturing, and cut back waste—resulting in vital value financial savings, elevated effectivity, and higher useful resource sustainability. Using Azure HPC allowed taking leaps in sustainability initiatives as an alternative of slowly creeping ahead with preexisting expertise. The simulations generated exact, actionable knowledge used within the design of a cutting-edge recycling facility permitting Encina Chemicals and different sustainability startups to make use of quicker, inexpensive modeling in Azure to assist them deploy and scale modeling revolutionary concepts with confidence.

Learn extra about Azure HPC and ISC 2023

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