The Microsoft HPC & Batch Team Blog
The blog for the Big Compute team in Microsoft Azure, working on HPC & Batch services and technologies
Azure Batch - VNET and Custom Image Support for Virtual Machine Pools
Overview This blog post is out-of-date as it is now possible to use custom images and VNETs using a...
Date: 03/17/2017
Microsoft HPC Pack 2016 is now available in Azure
We are excited to announce today the availability of the Microsoft HPC Pack 2016 in Microsoft Azure....
Date: 11/16/2016
Introducing MPI support for Linux on Azure Batch
We are happy to announce the release of MPI support for Linux on Azure Batch. We earlier released...
Date: 07/20/2016
Language support of Batch Client Library - Python
When Azure Batch was initially released last summer, there was only 1 client language we supported,...
Date: 06/09/2016
Introducing Linux support on Azure Batch
We are excited to announce today a preview of Azure Batch for Linux virtual machines. This brings...
Date: 03/29/2016
Azure Batch Service Update - Dec., 2015
We are excited to announce the first major service update of Azure Batch since the service GA in...
Date: 12/31/2015
Announcing the availability of MPI support on Azure Batch
Update: We have a published the detail on azure.com We are happy to announce today the release of...
Date: 12/30/2015
How to fully use GPU resources to run GPGPU jobs in Microsoft HPC Pack?
With the advent of the Graphical Processing Unit (GPU) as a general-purpose computing unit, more and...
Date: 11/16/2015
Microsoft HPC Pack 2012 R2 Update 3 is now available
Today, we are pleased to announce the Update 3 for HPC Pack 2012 R2 is now available. With this...
Date: 11/16/2015
Microsoft MPI v7 Beta is now available
We are happy to announce today the Beta release of the newest version of Microsoft MPI (MS-MPI)....
Date: 10/15/2015
Update 2 for HPC Pack 2012 R2 is now available
We are pleased to announce today that Update 2, our newest release of HPC Pack 2012 R2, is now...
Date: 07/09/2015
Announcing availability of Linux RDMA on Microsoft Azure
We are excited to announce today the availability of Linux RDMA on Microsoft Azure. With this...
Date: 07/09/2015
What's new in Azure Batch July release (General Availability)
Azure Batch service just announced general availability (see this blog post for detail). Comparing...
Date: 07/09/2015
Big Compute for large engineering simulations
We recently shared our experience working closely with one of our partners, Schlumberger, and talked...
Date: 07/05/2015
Deploy a Slurm Cluster on Azure
Slurm is a free open-source job scheduler for Linux. It’s used by a lot of customers and we...
Date: 06/05/2015
Microsoft MPI v6 release
We are happy to announce the release of the newest version of Microsoft MPI (MS-MPI). MS-MPI v6 is...
Date: 05/12/2015
Introducing Job Preparation and Release Task on Batch Service
As required by a lot of our customers, Azure Batch Service has recently introduced job preparation...
Date: 05/10/2015
New Architecture Blueprint: Large-Scale Computing – Financial Services
We are pleased to announce a new Azure architecture blueprint for Large-Scale Computing - Financial...
Date: 04/29/2015
Linux Blob / File Transfer Python Code Sample
HPC customers have been using AzCopy to copy files in and out of Azure Blob (block) Storage for...
Date: 04/15/2015
MS-MPI V6.0 Beta announcement
We are happy to announce today the Beta release of the newest version of Microsoft MPI (MS-MPI)....
Date: 03/23/2015
Azure Batch Client Library is updated to V1.2
Version 1.2 of the Azure Batch Client Library has been released on nuget and will require Azure...
Date: 03/09/2015
Announcing new Compute Intensive instances
Today we are announcing two new compute intensive instances: A10 and A11. These new instances have...
Date: 03/05/2015
How to compile and run a simple MS-MPI program
Download MS-MPI SDK and Redist installers and install them. The download link can be found at our...
Date: 02/02/2015
Azure Batch Explorer Sample Walkthrough
Azure Batch Explorer Sample Walkthrough What is the Batch Explorer? Batch Explorer is a GUI sample...
Date: 01/20/2015
Automating HPC Cluster Deployments in Azure IaaS: Part III - Auto Grow and Shrink Azure Nodes and IaaS VMs
Date: 12/02/2014
Automating HPC Cluster Deployments in Azure IaaS: Part II - Azure VM nodes management
Date: 12/02/2014
Automating HPC Cluster Deployments in Azure IaaS: Part I - Create a HPC Pack cluster using the Microsoft HPC Pack IaaS deployment script
Date: 12/02/2014
HPC Pack 2012 R2 Update 1 and MS-MPI v5 are now available
We are pleased to announce that the official releases of Update 1 for HPC Pack 2012 R2, and the...
Date: 11/18/2014
Using Azure PowerShell to Manage Azure Batch Account
Azure Batch is a new Azure platform service that provides job scheduling and large-scale resource...
Date: 10/28/2014
Azure Batch Preview
I am excited to announce the preview of Azure Batch, a new Azure platform service that provides job...
Date: 10/28/2014
Preview of 2012 R2 Update 1 and HPC Pack image in Azure and are now available
We are happy to announce the HPC Pack 2012 R2 Update 1 Preview and HPC Pack VM image in Microsoft...
Date: 08/18/2014
The Beta release of MS-MPI v5 is now available
We are happy to announce today the Beta release of the newest version of Microsoft MPI (MS-MPI)....
Date: 08/14/2014
How to make sure you always have the latest OS image in your Azure deployment scripts
When working with customer deployments, one of the top situations that can arise during the...
Date: 06/24/2014
Using Subscriptions in PowerShell Scripts
The majority of Azure PowerShell cmdlets interact with Azure Subscriptions, vital for changing or...
Date: 06/03/2014
Deploying PaaS Compute-Intensive VM's via Microsoft HPC Pack
If you want to deploy worker roles into your Microsoft Azure environment, then you need to be...
Date: 06/03/2014
New Regions with High Performance Capabilities
Following closely on the heels of two recent announcements about new high performance capabilities...
Date: 05/21/2014
Extending High Performance Capabilities for Microsoft Azure
We are excited to announce the extension of A8 and A9 support in Azure to include virtual machine...
Date: 05/14/2014
Microsoft acquires GreenButton
Microsoft announced today that we have acquired GreenButton. We’ve been big fans of...
Date: 05/01/2014
Launching MS-MPI Applications with Third Party Schedulers
MPI applications linked with the MS-MPI library are normally launched by using the job scheduler in...
Date: 04/28/2014
Docs Available for Using A8 and A9 Instances
Want to try the new A8 and A9 instances for your workloads? Check out this Quick Start topic in the...
Date: 02/14/2014
New High Performance Capabilities for Windows Azure
We are excited to announce availability of new compute intensive VM sizes for Cloud Services. The...
Date: 01/30/2014
RDMA in Windows Azure
Hello from SC13 in Denver. We are excited to be here and talk with you about Big Compute and HPC at...
Date: 11/18/2013
Why Windows Azure
I spent last week meeting with customers and partners about Windows Azure. Some of them are working...
Date: 10/31/2013
HPC Pack 2012 SP1 Available
I’m pleased announce that Service Pack 1 for HPC Pack 2012 is available for download. Our...
Date: 09/04/2013
Big Compute @ Microsoft
Customers and partners have been asking us what the recent Microsoftorganization changes mean for...
Date: 07/29/2013
Announcing the MSMPI Debugger Extension Beta
Update: The MSMPI Debugger Extension is now shipped as part of HPC Pack 2012 SP1 Toolpack. You can...
Date: 05/29/2013
HPC Pack SOA Tutorial V: Diagnose a SOA Service
It’s not an easy job to write an HPC application with complex algorithms, but it’s even...
Date: 03/14/2013
HPC Pack SOA Tutorial IV – Common Data
With multiple tasks running on an HPC cluster, often, many tasks work with a shared data set. For...
Date: 03/14/2013
HPC Pack SOA Tutorial III – Interactive mode
In tutorial II we discussed how to deal with a time-consuming service by employing a durable...
Date: 03/14/2013
HPC Pack SOA Tutorial II – Batch mode
In the last blog post, we implemented a simple SOA client and service. However in most cases, the...
Date: 03/14/2013