[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] Geopolitical change is having tectonic impact on the global manufacturing industry. In the U.S., western Europe and other industrialized countries, there is growing emphasis on “manufacturing repatriation,” or reshoring of factory production. With this comes the need for new strategies leveraging data analytics, machine learning, robotics and advanced design simulation enabled by HPC-class compute power to help contain costs, improve quality and accelerate time-to-market. At the heart of these strategies for many companies: a cloud computing platform that offers – and continually refreshes – its technology and support service ecosystem for manufacturers.
Manufacturing Repatriation: How HPC-Class Technologies from Microsoft Azure and AMD Support Manufacturers’ Reshoring Strategies
March 15, 2023 by
Microsoft Introduces Generative AI VM on Azure with Scaling up to Thousands of GPUs
March 13, 2023 by
Microsoft today introduced the ND H100 v5 VM on the Azure cloud, a virtual machine for development generative AI applications. The VM can scale from eight to thousands of NVIDIA H100 GPUs with Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking, Microsoft said, and the adoption of H100’s, NVIDIA’s latest data center GPUs, will accelerate performance for AI models over […]
Azure Native Qumulo Scalable File Service Now Available in Azure Marketplace
January 19, 2023 by
January 18, 2023 — High performance storage company Qumulo has announced the availability of the Azure Native Qumulo Scalable File Service. Customers can now provision Qumulo on demand directly from the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. Azure Native Qumulo Scalable File Service delivers data management and storage services at multi-petabyte scale in a single namespace with the […]
Microsoft Announces GA of Azure OpenAI Service, ChatGPT on Way
January 17, 2023 by
Microsoft has announced the general availability of Azure OpenAI Service, the result of a partnership with OpenAI whose ChatGPT generative AI application has created a sensation since its late November launch that generated 1 million-plus downloads in its first week. The announcement follows last week’s news that Microsoft was in talks to invest $10 billion […]
NVIDIA Partners With Azure to Build Massive Cloud AI Supercomputer
November 16, 2022 by
NVIDIA today announced a multi-year collaboration with Microsoft to build what the companies said will be one of the most powerful AI supercomputers in the world, powered by Microsoft Azure’s supercomputing infrastructure combined with NVIDIA GPUs, networking and stack of AI software to help enterprises train, deploy and scale AI. Azure’s cloud-based AI supercomputer includes […]
NVIDIA Announces Market Adoption of H100 GPUs and Quantum-2 Infiniband, including by Microsoft Azure
November 14, 2022 by
SC22, Dallas — NVIDIA today announced broad adoption of its next-generation H100 Tensor Core GPUs and Quantum-2 InfiniBand, including new offerings on Microsoft Azure cloud and more than 50 new partner systems for accelerating scientific discovery. NVIDIA partners described the new offerings at SC22, where the company released updates to its cuQuantum, CUDA and BlueField DOCA acceleration libraries, […]
Staying at the Cutting Edge of Automotive Design Technology with Azure Cloud Platform and AMD
October 20, 2022 by
[SPONSORED CONTENT] In automotive, first movers have a massive advantage. Success in the industry centers on vehicle R&D, at the core of which is design, performance and crash safety multi-physics software. Generating remarkably true-to-life simulations, these applications quicken vehicle time-to-market, allowing engineers to sample more design options and conduct more virtual tests in less time. […]
Azure Adopts AMD Instinct MI200 GPU for Large-Scale AI Training
May 26, 2022 by
SANTA CLARA, Calif. May 26, 2022 — Microsoft has announced the use of AMD Instinct MI200 GPU accelerators for large-scale AI training workloads. Microsoft also announced it is working with the PyTorch Core team and AMD data center software team to optimize the performance and developer experience for customers running PyTorch on Microsoft Azure. AMD […]
Atos Takes Fight Over Met Office-Microsoft $1.6B Weather HPC Contract to UK High Court
May 23, 2022 by
Atos’ fight over the UK Met Office awarding a $1.56 billion contract to Microsoft to build the world’s biggest weather and climate supercomputer will soon go to the UK High Court, according to a story in the Financial Times. Atos, the leading Europe-based HPC vendor, argues that is was excluded unfairly from bids for the […]
Microsoft and UK Met Office Select AI Start-ups for Environmental Sustainability Program
April 6, 2022 by
April 2022 — Ten companies focused on reducing carbon emissions and waste, preserving water and protecting ecosystems have been selected to take part in Microsoft’s AI for Environmental Sustainability Accelerator program. The program, launched in collaboration with the Met Office and Social Tech Trust, will support the cohort through a four-month program to advance their environmental solution using […]
