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Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Azure
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Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Azure

by Sjoukje Zaal, Amit Malik, Sander Rossel, Jason Marston, Mohamed Waly, Stefano Demiliani
December 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
494 pages
11h 41m
English
Packt Publishing
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Working with HPC virtual machines

Azure offers several VM 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 ...
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