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- Announcements
- Oct 2, 2024
- 2 min read
Microsoft launches latest Azure virtual machines optimized for AI supercomputing, the ND H200 v5 series
Our customers rely on Azure AI infrastructure to develop innovative AI-driven solutions, which is why we are delivering new cloud-based AI-supercomputing clusters built with Azure ND H200 v5 series virtual machines (VMs) today.
- Events
- Mar 14, 2023
- 4 min read
Microsoft to showcase purpose-built AI infrastructure at NVIDIA GTC
Join Microsoft at NVIDIA GTC, a free online global technology conference, March 20–23.
- Thought leadership
- Nov 9, 2020
- 8 min read
Advancing global network reliability through intelligent software—part 1 of 2
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.
- Developers
- May 3, 2018
- 2 min read
Announcing low-priority VMs on scale sets now in public preview
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.
- Developers
- Nov 13, 2017
- 2 min read
New NVIDIA GPUs coming to Azure accelerate HPC and AI workloads
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.
- Events
- May 11, 2017
- 4 min read
Batch computing at a fraction of the price
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.
- Announcements
- May 10, 2017
- 3 min read
Massive-scale cloud rendering with Autodesk on 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.
- Developers
- Sep 22, 2016
- 2 min read
Deep Learning, Simulation and HPC Applications with Docker and Azure Batch
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.
