Way back when, so the story goes, someone said we’d only need five computers for the whole world. It’s quite easy to argue that Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, and the like are all ...

For any public cloud to succeed, it has to offer best of breed technologies reasonably close to the cutting edge and supporting the wide variety of compute that the enterprises of the world would ...

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The AlmaLinux OS Foundation, the nonprofit that stewards the community owned and governed open source CentOS alternative, today announced availability of the first ...

Microsoft has added a new level of support for NVIDIA GPU projects to Azure, which may benefit those running deep-learning and other high performance computing (HPC) workloads. The pair are touting ...

While the need for scalability hasn’t changed, the nature of scalability in HPC has, in applications and technologies, both on-premises and in the cloud. By combining traditional HPC and AI, ...

Microsoft Corp. MSFT recently announced that it has acquired a computing orchestration and high performance computing (HPC) start-up called Cycle Computing for an undisclosed amount. Cycle Computing's ...

Microsoft is buying Cycle Computing in a move to accelerate high-performance computing (HPC) in the cloud. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Cycle Computing’s software makes computation in the ...

Microsoft’s Bill Hilf writes that the company’s new new instance configurations of Azure with the Microsoft HPC Pack 2012 are designed to be an optimal platform for your Big Compute applications. As ...

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Microsoft pulled off a big get with its acquisition of Cycle Computing, the developer of a suite of high-performance computing (HPC) services called CycleCloud for cloud orchestration, provisioning ...

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Microsoft is intent on bending the supercomputing set its direction. Instead of just focusing on competing with other public clouds, they’re aiming directly at on-prem HPC, showing comparable or ...