While the need for scalability hasn’t changed, the nature of scalability in HPC has, in applications and technologies, both on-premises and in the cloud. By combining traditional HPC and AI, ...

Microsoft Azure customers worldwide now gain access to Alces Flight to take advantage of the scalability, reliability and agility of Azure. With Alces Flight, it is possible for researchers to spin up ...

Way back when, so the story goes, someone said we’d only need five computers for the whole world. It’s quite easy to argue that Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, and the like are all ...

For any public cloud to succeed, it has to offer best of breed technologies reasonably close to the cutting edge and supporting the wide variety of compute that the enterprises of the world would ...

Microsoft has added a new level of support for NVIDIA GPU projects to Azure, which may benefit those running deep-learning and other high performance computing (HPC) workloads. The pair are touting ...

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The AlmaLinux OS Foundation, the nonprofit that stewards the community owned and governed open source CentOS alternative, today announced availability of the first ...

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Microsoft announced a couple of high-performance computing (HPC) enhancements this month for its Windows Azure Cloud Services and Windows Server 2012 R2 products. The Windows Azure Cloud Service now ...

Microsoft is buying Cycle Computing in a move to accelerate high-performance computing (HPC) in the cloud. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Cycle Computing’s software makes computation in the ...

When people think of supercomputers, they think of a couple of different performance vectors (pun intended), but usually the first thing they think of is the performance of a big, parallel machine as ...