High-performance compute virtual machines

Azure offers several virtual machine series and sizes that are designed and optimized for compute-intensive tasks. They are also known as compute-intensive instances. At the time of writing this book, Azure offers the A8-A11, the N-series, and the H-series, which all support HPC workloads.

These series and sizes consist of hardware that is designed and optimized for compute-intensive, graphics-intensive, and network-intensive applications. They are best suited for modeling, simulations, and HPC cluster applications:

• The A-series offers RDMA networking, which provides ultra-low-latency and high bandwidth networking.
• The N-series is aimed at graphics-intensive and compute-intensive applications. They consist of different NVIDIA Tesla GPUs that are well suited for deep learning applications, gaming applications, or virtualization.
• The...