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Overview This blog post is out-of-date as it is now possible to use custom images and VNETs using a...

Author: Mark Scurrell - MSFT 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....

Author: Guang HU - MSFT 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...

Author: Manoj Soni - MSFT 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,...

Author: Yiding Zhou - MSFT 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...

Author: Yiding Zhou - MSFT 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...

Author: Yiding Zhou - MSFT 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...

Author: Yiding Zhou - MSFT 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...

Author: Guang HU - MSFT 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...

Author: Guang HU - MSFT 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)....

Author: Anh.Vo 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...

Author: Guang HU - MSFT 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...

Author: Felipe Ayora 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...

Author: Yiding Zhou - MSFT 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...

Author: Felipe Ayora 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...

Author: Yiding Zhou - MSFT 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...

Author: Karan Batta 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...

Author: Yiding Zhou - MSFT 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...

Author: Felipe Ayora 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...

Author: Alan.Stephenson 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)....

Author: Tejas Karmarkar 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...

Author: Yiding Zhou - MSFT 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...

Author: Felipe Ayora 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...

Author: Anh.Vo 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...

Author: Alan.Stephenson Date: 01/20/2015

Automating HPC Cluster Deployments in Azure IaaS: Part III - Auto Grow and Shrink Azure Nodes and IaaS VMs

Author: Yutong Sun Date: December 2, 2014 HPC Pack 2012 R2 supports Azure Nodes, aka PaaS worker...

Author: Yutong Sun Date: 12/02/2014

Automating HPC Cluster Deployments in Azure IaaS: Part II - Azure VM nodes management

Author: Yongjun Tian Date: December 2, 2014 This tutorial shows you how to do Azure IaaS node...

Author: Yutong Sun 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

Author: Sunbin Zhu Date: December 2, 2014 The Microsoft HPC Pack IaaS deployment script provides an...

Author: Yutong Sun 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...

Author: Felipe Ayora 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...

Author: Alan.Stephenson 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...

Author: Alex Sutton 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...

Author: Guang HU - MSFT 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)....

Author: Felipe Ayora 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...

Author: Audrey Sniezek Date: 06/24/2014

Using Subscriptions in PowerShell Scripts

The majority of Azure PowerShell cmdlets interact with Azure Subscriptions, vital for changing or...

Author: Audrey Sniezek 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...

Author: Audrey Sniezek Date: 06/03/2014

New Regions with High Performance Capabilities

Following closely on the heels of two recent announcements about new high performance capabilities...

Author: Felipe Ayora 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...

Author: Audrey Sniezek Date: 05/14/2014

Microsoft acquires GreenButton

Microsoft announced today that we have acquired GreenButton. We’ve been big fans of...

Author: Alex Sutton 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...

Author: Anh.Vo 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...

Author: Dan Lepow [MSFT] 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...

Author: Alex Sutton 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...

Author: Alex Sutton Date: 11/18/2013

Why Windows Azure

I spent last week meeting with customers and partners about Windows Azure. Some of them are working...

Author: Alex Sutton 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...

Author: Alex Sutton Date: 09/04/2013

Big Compute @ Microsoft

Customers and partners have been asking us what the recent Microsoftorganization changes mean for...

Author: Alex Sutton 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...

Author: Anh.Vo 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...

Author: Yumin Guo[MSFT] 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...

Author: Yumin Guo[MSFT] 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...

Author: Yumin Guo[MSFT] 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...

Author: Yumin Guo[MSFT] Date: 03/14/2013

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