The Latest Azure HPC-optimized VMs are Now Generally Available on the Rescale Platform
Blog post from Rescale
Rescale has announced the general availability of Azure HB (Rescale Amber) and HC (Rescale Carbon) virtual machines (VMs), along with early access to HBv2 (Rescale Amber v2) VMs across various regions. The H-series VMs, part of Azure's latest high-performance computing offerings, include HBv2 VMs with 120 AMD EPYC 7002-series CPU cores and 480 GB RAM, designed for applications needing high memory bandwidth, such as fluid dynamics and weather modeling. The HB-series, with 60-core AMD EPYC processors, and HC-series, with 44-core Intel Xeon Skylake processors, are optimized for different computational tasks like explicit finite element analysis and molecular dynamics. Both series include 100 Gb/s EDR InfiniBand and support the latest MPI types and versions. Additionally, the announcement includes the availability of Azure Spot VMs, which together with Rescale’s HPC job orchestration and automated checkpoint restarts, help manage preemption risks. For further details or quotes, contact Rescale's sales team.