A public cloud service has ranked among the most powerful supercomputers for the first time

Roccojones00118 Nov, 2020Technology

Microsoft also announced that it has achieved a new record for Message Passing Interface-based (MPI) HPC scaling on the public cloud. By running Nanoscale Molecular Dynamics (NAMD) across 86,400, CPU cores, Azure has demonstrated that researchers anywhere can have petascale computing at their fingertips. As a government, enterprise, and research organizations become increasingly data-centric, the Graph500 serves as a useful barometer for customers and partners trying to migrate challenging data problems to the cloud.