Azure high-performance computing powers energy industry innovation
Azure high-performance computing provides a platform for energy industry innovation at scale. The rising demand for energy Global energy demand has rapidly increased over the last few years and looks set to continue accelerating at such a pace. With a ... continue reading

Voltus and Azure—no power integrity challenge too big to solve
This post was co-authored by Giancarlo DiPasquale, Microsoft Director, Semiconductor & EDA; Rajat Chaudhry, Product Management Director, Cadence; and Adrian Lao, Senior Software Architect, Cadence. With the advent of AI and hyperscale designs on advanced nodes, it is common to ... continue reading

AI and the need for purpose-built cloud infrastructure
The progress of AI has been astounding with solutions pushing the envelope by augmenting human understanding, preferences, intent, and even spoken language. AI is improving our knowledge and understanding by helping us provide faster, more insightful solutions that fuel transformation ... continue reading

Do more with less using new Azure HX and HBv4 virtual machines for HPC
This post was co-authored by Jyothi Venkatesh, Senior Product Manager, Azure HPC and Fanny Ou, Technical Program Manager, Azure HPC. The next generation of purpose-built Azure HPC virtual machines Today, we are excited to announce two new virtual machines (VMs) ... continue reading

Wipro and Microsoft partner on services and accelerators for the new Microsoft Energy Data Services
This blog post was co-authored by Paul Dejager, OSDU Practice Lead, Wipro. Since its first customer-ready release, the OSDU™ Data Platform has been tested and piloted within the energy industry with great success. However, customers have been awaiting an enterprise-ready ... continue reading

Azure empowers easy-to-use, high-performance, and hyperscale model training using DeepSpeed
This blog was written in collaboration with the DeepSpeed team, the Azure ML team, and the Azure HPC team at Microsoft. Large-scale transformer-based deep learning models trained on large amounts of data have shown great results in recent years in ... continue reading
Migrate and modernize with Azure to power innovation across the entire digital estate
Cloud adoption increased significantly during COVID-19 and continues for many companies. However, an enormous migration and modernization opportunity remains as organizations continue their digital transformation. In fact, 72 percent of organizations reported their industry’s pace of digital transformation accelerated because ... continue reading

Accelerate your AI applications with Azure NC A100 v4 virtual machines
Real-world AI has revolutionized and changed how people live during the past decade, including media and entertainment, healthcare and life science, retail, automotive, finance service, manufacturing, and oil and gas. Speaking to a smart home device, browsing social media with ... continue reading

Genomic analysis on Galaxy using Azure CycleCloud
Cloud computing and digital transformation have been powerful enablers for genomics. Genomics is expected to be an exabase-scale big data domain by 2025, posing data acquisition and storage challenges on par with other major generators of big data. Embracing digital ... continue reading

Power your genomic data analysis on Azure with Azure CycleCloud
Researchers around the world have access to a greater variety and volume of genomics data than ever before. Genomics is now available to a vast majority of researchers, pushing forward the discovery at a tremendous pace and changing people’s lives ... continue reading