General availability: Azure HX Virtual Machines for HPC

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Published

Jun 13, 2023

Status

Launched

Timeline

  • June 2023
    General Availability

Product

Virtual Machines

Tag

Pricing & Offerings
Microsoft Build

Category

Compute

Description

HX-series Virtual Machines (VMs) are optimized for large memory HPC workloads such as backend EDA, finite element analysis, computational geoscience, and big data analytics.  

 These VMs feature: 

  • Up to 176 AMD EPYC™ 9004-series CPU cores with AMD 3D V-Cache (Genoa-X), 1.4 TB of RAM, clock frequencies up to 3.7 GHz, and no simultaneous multithreading.  
  • Up to 1.2 TB/s of effective memory bandwidth and 2.3 GB L3 cache per VM, up to 12 GB/s (reads) and 7 GB/s (writes) of block device SSD performance, 
  • 400 Gb/s NDR InfiniBand from NVIDIA Networking to enable supercomputer-scale MPI workloads.  

Learn more.