High Performance Computing (HPC)

OVERVIEW

Accelerate innovation and solve complex problems

Solve your most complex challenges—including scientific research and AI-driven insights—using scalable, secure, cloud-native infrastructure.

Build and run your most demanding workloads in the cloud with a full-stack solution, purpose-built for high-performance computing.

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Deliver supercomputing power, interoperability, and near-infinite scalability for compute-intensive workloads with Azure Virtual Machines.

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Empower decision-making and deliver next-generation AI with industry-leading Azure AI and analytics services.

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Help secure your data and applications and streamline compliance with multilayered, built-in security and confidential computing.

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WORKLOADS

Power your most complex workloads

Run your most demanding simulations, AI models, and rendering tasks with a cloud-native HPC platform built for performance and scale. platform built for performance and scale.

Simulation and modeling

Easily run and scale simulations to inform real-world scenarios.

AI infrastructure

Deliver supercomputing power for AI applications and advanced analytics.

Visualization

Run graphic-intensive applications and visualize complex data.

Rendering

Easily deploy render farms and manage spikes in demand.

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Explore Azure high-performance computing solutions tailored to your industry and workload needs—built for speed, scale, and innovation.

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CUSTOMER STORIES

Learn from real-world HPC use cases

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"Our partnership with Azure has been fantastic for our business. Azure has been able to adapt to our needs, scale, and provide the elasticity as we grow."

Alex Kendall, Co-founder and CEO, Wayve

90%

Faster model training

Billions

Of calculations

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“Everything with Azure is more unified and efficient…Thanks to the extensive capabilities and ease of use of Azure, GlaaS removes all the complexity for our customers.”

Victor Rubinstein, Senior Director of Technology, Moody’s Analytics

20,000

Cores in Azure versus 1,000 on-premises

"With the incredible horsepower available in Azure, we can run physics-based models many times faster."

Andrew Norris, Director of Digital Platform Governance and Strategy, Stantec

26x

Faster data modeling

95%

Correlation for hydrology models

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“We only had 250 compute nodes on-premises, but Azure offers thousands of nodes, so our researchers and instructors don’t have to wait to spin up their H-series, N-series, and F-series VMs.”

Dr. Stefano Angioni, Research Computing Manager, University of Bath

900%

Increase in compute nodes