Transforming Clouds to Cloud-Native Supercomputing: Best Practices with Microsoft Azure

Convergence of HPC and AI is bringing dramatic acceleration to every kind of simulation and advancing fields across science and industry. With Azure’s exceptional AI supercomputing capabilities, and providing best-in-class scalable performance for MPI-based workloads, Azure is taking the next transformational leap for scientific computing performance with the additional acceleration capabilities of the NVIDIA BlueField data processing unit (DPU). We'll provide an overview of the Azure HPC+AI platform, reviewing recent accomplishments, including details of how the Azure HPC+AI portfolio supports additional DPU accelerator capabilities.