HPC Cloud Trends: Microsoft's Andrew Jones in Conversation with Doug Black

HPC Cloud Trends: Microsoft's Andrew Jones in Conversation with Doug Black

Wednesday, June 30, 2021 3:40 PM to 4:00 PM · 20 min. (Africa/Abidjan)
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Andrew Jones, Future Capabilities for HPC & AI, Microsoft Azure, sits down with insideHPC's Doug Black to discuss core technologies that HPC users require from cloud services platforms, factors driving the cloud HPC boom and how Azure positions itself versus AWS, Google Cloud and other HPC cloud services providers. Jones also talks about recent Azure customer wins, including the £1-plus UK Met Office contract, as well as what's coming from Azure in HPC in the next 12-18 months.
Azure HPCAzure HPC is not just running your HPC in the cloud...it is a cloud built for HPC. The Azure HPC Platform offers a complete set of computing, networking, and storage resources integrated with workload orchestration services to support the widest range of HPC application dependencies and scenarios. With purpose-built infrastructure and optimized services utilizing the latest and greatest computing hardware, Azure offers HPC customers a competitive price/performance scenario against on-premises HPC. And with next-generation machine learning and inferencing tools to enable smarter processes and more insightful decision making, Azure is empowering a whole new level of value and versatility to today's HPC developers & engineers.

Registered attendees

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Adam Kozlowski
ResearcherUniversity of Warsaw
Aleksandra Kowalczuk
Aleksandra Kowalczuk
Security analystAccenture
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Alex Norton
HPC Research AnalystHyperion Research

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