Azure HPC Integrations

Microsoft's Azure is a cloud computing platform that allows for rapid and secure application development, testing and management. Azure. Invent with purpose. Turn ideas into solutions with more than 100 services to build, deploy, and manage applications—in the cloud, on-premises, and at the edge—using the tools and frameworks of your choice. Continuous innovation from Microsoft supports your development today, and your product visions for tomorrow. With a commitment to open source, and support for all languages and frameworks, build how you want, and deploy where you want to. On-premises, in the cloud, and at the edge—we’ll meet you where you are. Integrate and manage your environments with services designed for hybrid cloud. Get security from the ground up, backed by a team of experts, and proactive compliance trusted by enterprises, governments, and startups. The cloud you can trust, with the numbers to prove it.

Build cutting-edge, market-ready AI applications with out-of-the-box and customizable APIs and models. Quickly infuse generative AI into production workloads using studios, SDKs, and APIs. Gain a competitive edge by building AI apps powered by foundation models, including those from OpenAI, Meta, and Microsoft. Detect and mitigate harmful use with built-in responsible AI, enterprise-grade Azure security, and responsible AI tooling. Build your own copilot and generative AI applications with cutting-edge language and vision models. Retrieve the most relevant data using keyword, vector, and hybrid search. Monitor text and images to detect offensive or inappropriate content. Translate documents and text in real time across more than 100 languages.

Massively scalable and secure object storage for cloud-native workloads, archives, data lakes, high-performance computing, and machine learning. Azure Blob Storage helps you create data lakes for your analytics needs, and provides storage to build powerful cloud-native and mobile apps. Optimize costs with tiered storage for your long-term data, and flexibly scale up for high-performance computing and machine learning workloads. Blob storage is built from the ground up to support the scale, security, and availability needs of mobile, web, and cloud-native application developers. Use it as a cornerstone for serverless architectures such as Azure Functions. Blob storage supports the most popular development frameworks, including Java, .NET, Python, and Node.js, and is the only cloud storage service that offers a premium, SSD-based object storage tier for low-latency and interactive scenarios.

A Microsoft Azure native, high performance file storage service for your core business applications. Azure NetApp Files (ANF) makes it super-easy for enterprise LOB and storage professionals to migrate and run complex, performance-intensive and latency-sensitive applications with no code-change. ANF is widely used as the underlying shared file-storage service in these scenarios: Migration (lift-and-shift) of POSIX compliant Linux and Windows applications, SAP HANA, Databases, HPC infra and apps, and enterprise web-applications. Support for multiple protocols enables “lift & shift” of both Linux & Windows applications to run seamlessly in Azure. Multiple performance tiers allow for close alignment with workload performance requirements. Deep integration into Azure enables a seamless & secure Azure experience, with no learning or management overhead. Leading certifications including SAP HANA, GDPR, and HIPAA enables migration of the most demanding workloads to Azure.

Migrate your business- and mission-critical workloads to Azure infrastructure and improve operational efficiency. Run SQL Server, SAP, Oracle® software and high-performance computing applications on Azure Virtual Machines. Choose your favorite Linux distribution or Windows Server. Deploy virtual machines featuring up to 416 vCPUs and 12 TB of memory. Get up to 3.7 million local storage IOPS per VM. Take advantage of up to 30 Gbps Ethernet and cloud’s first deployment of 200 Gbps InfiniBand. Select the underlying processors – AMD, Ampere (Arm-based), or Intel - that best meet your requirements. Encrypt sensitive data, protect VMs from malicious threats, secure network traffic, and meet regulatory and compliance requirements. Use Virtual Machine Scale Sets to build scalable applications. Reduce your cloud spend with Azure Spot Virtual Machines and reserved instances. Build your private cloud with Azure Dedicated Host. Run mission-critical applications in Azure to increase resiliency.

Azure Marketplace is a comprehensive online store that provides access to thousands of certified, ready-to-use software applications, services, and solutions from Microsoft and third-party vendors. It enables businesses to discover, purchase, and deploy software directly within the Azure cloud environment. The marketplace offers a wide range of products, including virtual machine images, AI and machine learning models, developer tools, security solutions, and industry-specific applications. With flexible pricing options like pay-as-you-go, free trials, and subscription models, Azure Marketplace simplifies the procurement process and centralizes billing through a single Azure invoice. It supports seamless integration with Azure services, enabling organizations to enhance their cloud infrastructure, streamline workflows, and accelerate digital transformation initiatives.

Microsoft Discovery is a new agentic platform designed to revolutionize research and development (R&D) by empowering scientists and engineers with AI-driven collaboration and high-performance computing (HPC). Built on Azure, this platform enables researchers to work alongside specialized AI agents that help accelerate the discovery process through advanced knowledge reasoning, hypothesis formulation, and experimental simulations. The platform's graph-based knowledge engine facilitates complex, contextual reasoning over vast amounts of scientific data, promoting transparency and accountability while speeding up the discovery cycle. By automating and enhancing research tasks, Microsoft Discovery offers an extensible, enterprise-ready solution that integrates seamlessly with existing tools and datasets.